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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 8, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 32.

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The Printing Press and Good Reading

By Editor

Though the enemy of mankind made an attempt to provoke the inventor of the printing-press to destroy his invention lest it be the means of disseminating evil, it is well for us that he listened to that other voice that "bade him desist from his work of destruction, and to persist in perfecting his invention, declaring that, though the occasion of evil, God would make it the fountain of infinite good, and give the right the ultimate triumph."
The printing-press has been, perhaps, the most potent influence in educating the world in right principles, and in disseminating a knowledge of God's work throughout the world. But as parents and teachers, do we aid the youth as we might in selecting and assimilating good reading? The Youth's Instructor is our youth's paper. Do we make it a strong educative influence by reading it with the children, and talking over with them weekly the principles it emphasizes? The Boys' number, which has just come from the press, is especially worthy of such treatment.
KINGS are but men after all. They may assert their divine right to rule and reign; they may claim a reverence from their followers amounting to religious veneration and worship, but a lapse of time only demonstrates that after all they are but poor, frail humanity, and, like their subjects, unable to arrest the progress of old age or the attack of mortal disease. This is demonstrated in the recent death of the emperor of Japan. Ascending the throne at the age of fifteen years, he had a long and prosperous reign. During his life he has seen his country immerge from its seclusion of the past and take on much of the refinement of modern civilization. He was justly held in high regard by all his subjects, and sincerely mourned in death. His son, at the age of thirty-three, now becomes emperor. It is probable that the change of rulers will make but little difference in the policy of Japan, unless indeed the new ruler shall take a more open and aggressive part in the affairs of state than did his father, who was largely governed by his counselors.