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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 2.

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Do not Read Them.

Books which dispute the meaning of God's word, shun them as you would the coil of a deadly serpent. Not long since, a friend brought me a book, with a request that I would read it. Thinking he would be displeased at a refusal, I half assented. It was ably written, the logic was clear, and the argument very plausible. I read for a while, interested in the startling views and questions proposed; but when the authority of the word of God was disputed, even set at nought, and human doctrine substituted, it was enough. I saw my danger, and closed the book, never again to be opened. How many souls, precious in the sight of God, have been launched into that broad way whose end is eternal death by infidel writers, seeking for their own popularity the overthrow of the gospel.