. Pilgrim Almanac (1873) . eternal interests,and see the temptations thrown aroundthem by thoughtless, designing and wick-ed writers and mercenary publishers,should ask with prayerful must and will read—audit is equal-ly true that they will not read what doesnot interest them. Hence they must havesuch reading as they can appreciate, andthey must be educated to appreciate whatis good and wholesome. We may not—cannot — force their likes and is sometimes attempted — alwaysunwisely, to their serious injury; but wemay, and must, if we would save theirsouls, educate the
. Pilgrim Almanac (1873) . eternal interests,and see the temptations thrown aroundthem by thoughtless, designing and wick-ed writers and mercenary publishers,should ask with prayerful must and will read—audit is equal-ly true that they will not read what doesnot interest them. Hence they must havesuch reading as they can appreciate, andthey must be educated to appreciate whatis good and wholesome. We may not—cannot — force their likes and is sometimes attempted — alwaysunwisely, to their serious injury; but wemay, and must, if we would save theirsouls, educate them to like, in literatureas in all things, that which is good andtrue and virtuous, and to abhor whateveris otherwise. Books more or less objectionable arecontinually thrown upon the market byrival publishing-houses, which do notseem at a loss in finding parties willingto recommend them as suitable for Sun-day Schools. Purchasing Committeesneither have time nor disposition, toooften, to investigate their claims to a. place in the library—take much lor grant-ed, or act on the testimony of self-inter-ested witnesses—and thus are introducedinto almost every Sunday School in theland books that are trashy and decided-ly injurious. A remedy for this, at least in part,may be found in Childrens Papers. Inview of the truth contained in the fore-going remarks, the write/ has aimed forseveral months past to reform his ownschool, by substituting papers for would by no means abolish the library;but having provided, as above stated,for the children, would aim to improvethe character of the library, and adaptit more to the wants of the teachers andadult members of the school. The booksshould be purchased singly, or in smallnumbers, from time to time, as circum-stances demand, and only such as arewell endorsed and cf unquestionablevalue. First of all, books of practicalvalue on the Sunday School work, withaids to teachers, should find favor andplace; and, in the end, I would
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