They have become infatuated and charmed with just such food for the mind as the intensely exciting stories contained in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. That book did good in its day to those who needed an awakening in regard to their false ideas of slavery; but we are standing upon the very borders of the eternal world, where such stories are not needed in the preparation for eternal life.—Testimonies for the Church 5:518, 519 (1889). {1MCP 110.3}

De er blevet bedåret og fortryllet med så stærkt sindsoprivende spændingshistorier som dem i Onkel Toms hytte. Den bog gjorde godt i sine dage for dem, som behøvede at opvække deres forkerte tanker om slaveriet, men vi står på grænserne til den evige verden, hvor der ikke er brug for sådanne historier i beredelsen til det evige liv. - vidnesbyrd 5 518, 519 (1889).