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Quality Message Literature Needed
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A message that will arouse the churches is to be proclaimed. Every
effort is to be made to give the light, not only to our people, but to
the world. I have been instructed that the prophecies of Daniel and
the Revelation should be printed in small books, with the necessary
explanations, and should be sent all over the world. Our own people
need to have the light placed before them in clearer lines.—
Testimonies
to Ministers and Gospel Workers, 117
.
Textbooks for Children and Youth—Why should not the lessons
which children and youth learn be pure, elevating, and ennobling?
Cannot books be written that are free from every species of error?
Is there not talent enough among Seventh-day Adventists to write
books containing the simple lessons of the Old and New Testaments?
[
SDA literature evangelists now have an abundance of quality chil-
dren’s books to sell to their customers, and denominational ABCs offer
excellent Bible storybooks for boys and girls.
]—
Manuscript 5, 1890
.
[99]
No Questionable Books for the Youth—Why do our people, in
the instruction of their children, depend upon books which contain
objectionable errors? When the children ask what these stories mean,
which are so contrary to all they have been taught, the parents answer
that they are not true, and yet they continue to place the books before
their children.... No one seems to realize that the ideas presented in
these books mislead children, and that the imaginary stories, novels,
and fables which are dealt out to feed their minds beget a taste and
encourage an appetite for the unreal things of life.
When we have an abundance of that which is real and that which is
divine, why do we not feed the minds of children with this kind of food?
Books which contain a perversion of truth and which will mislead
growing minds should never be placed before children or youth, and
those with mature minds would be far better, far purer, stronger, and
more noble if they had nothing to do with them.—
Manuscript 5, 1890
.
Guarding Against Publishing False Theories—I can see plainly
that should everyone who thinks he is qualified to write books follow
his imagination and have his productions published, insisting that they
be recommended by our publishing houses, there would be plenty of
tares sown broadcast in our world....
As long as there are printing presses and publishing houses, er-
roneous matter will be presented for publication, and books will be
prepared for public circulation.