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account for the influence exerted by the introduction of matter that
would defile the institution, contaminate the workers, or mislead the
world.
If such matter is allowed a place in our institutions, it will be found
that the subtle power of Satan’s sentiments is not easily cast out. If the
tempter is allowed to sow his evil seed, it will germinate and bring forth
fruit. There will be a harvest for his reaping in the very institutions
established by the funds of God’s people for the advancement of His
work. It will result in sending forth to the world, in place of Christian
workers, a company of educated infidels.
In these matters a responsibility rests not only upon the managers,
but upon the employees. I have a word to say to the workers in every
publishing house established among us: As you love and fear God,
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refuse to have anything to do with the knowledge against which God
warned Adam. Let typesetters refuse to set a sentence of such matter.
Let proofreaders refuse to read, pressmen to print, and binders to bind
it. If asked to handle such matter, call for a meeting of the workers
in the institution, that there may be an understanding as to what such
things mean. Those in charge of the institution may urge that you are
not responsible, that the managers must arrange these matters. But
you are responsible—responsible for the use of your eyes, your hands,
your mind. These are entrusted to you by God to be used for Him, not
for the service of Satan.
When matters containing errors that counteract the work of God
are printed in our houses of publication, God holds accountable not
only those who allow Satan to lay a trap for souls, but those who in
any way co-operate in the work of temptation.
My brethren in responsible positions, beware that you do not
harness your workers to the car of superstition and heresy. Let not the
institutions ordained by God to send out life-giving truth be made an
agency for the dissemination of soul-destroying error.
Let our publishing houses, from the least to the greatest, refuse to
print a line of such pernicious matter. Let it be understood by all with
whom we have to do that from all our institutions literature containing
the science of Satan is excluded.
We are brought into connection with the world, not that we may
be leavened with the world’s falsehood, but that as God’s agencies we
may leaven the world with His truth.
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