Superficial Reading Produces Diseased Imagination—There are many of our youth whom God has endowed with superior capabilities. He has given them the very best of talents; but their powers have been enervated, their minds confused and enfeebled, and for years they have made no growth in grace and in a knowledge of the reasons of our faith, because they have gratified a taste for story reading. They have as much difficulty to control the appetite for such superficial reading as the drunkard has to control his appetite for intoxicating drink. {1MCP 110.1}

(110) Overfladisk læsning fremmer sygelig indbildning. - Der er mange af vore unge Gud har begavet med højere evner. Han har givet dem de allerbedste talenter, men deres kræfter er blevet svækket, deres sind forvirret og afkræftet og i årevis har de ikke vokset i nåden og i kundskab til vor tros grunde, fordi de har tilfredsstillet en smag for romanlæsning. De har ligeså svært ved at styre lysten for en sådan overfladisk læsning, som drankeren har ved at styre sin lyst til berusende drikke.