The Importance of Good Reading
By Ellen G. White
"There are many who have not books and publications upon present truth. Here is a large field where money can be safely invested. There are large numbers of little ones who should be supplied with reading. The Sunshine Series, Golden Grains Series, Poems, Sabbath Readings for the Home Circle, &c., are all precious books, and may be safely introduced into every family. The many sums usually spent in candies and useless toys may be treasured up with which to buy these volumes. "Children need proper reading, which will afford amusement and recreation, and not demoralize the mind or weary the body. If they are taught to love romance, and newspaper tales, instructive books and papers will become distasteful to them. Most children and young people will have reading matter, and if it is not selected for them they will select it for themselves. They can find anywhere a ruinous quality of reading, and they soon learn to love it; but if pure and good reading is furnished them, they will cultivate a taste for that."