MANY years ago a gentleman in India, while searching for a book, felt a slight pain in his finger like the prick of a pin. He took no nice of it, but soon his arm began to swell, and in a short time he died. A small but deadly snake was afterward found among the books.
Though we do not find poisonous snakes among the books in our country, sometimes there is poison in the books themselves. And so, dear children, we must be careful what we read. Satan, our deadly enemy, has flooded the world with books and magazines and papers that contain far deadlier poison than the snake’s bite. The poison in them is cunning lies against God’s Word, and against His beloved Son. If we should read these and be deceived by them, then we should lose, not only our lives, but our never dying souls as well.
“Take heed what ye hear.”
ML-02/25/1962