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What Are You Reading?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 22.

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What Are You Reading?

A BRIGHT, beautiful boy, a minister's son, a student in a college in Pennsylvania, smoked cigarettes, read novels and tales of murder and suicide, and one day, after threatening another student with a pistol, took a dose of strychnin, and died in a few moments.
The arrest of several boys for an attempt to rob a Burlington passenger-train in August, 1898, and the verdict of ten years in the penitentiary as a result, should arouse people to the fact that the depravity of human nature is liable to show itself at a very early age, if the surroundings are favorable. These boys belonged to well-to-do families. They had the privilege of buying and reading the corrupt literature that tells of robbers and daring wickedness. It was a natural result that they should admire the adventure and daring attributed to the heroes of their vicious novels; and, in due time, such seed-sowing brings the results.—Selected.