Satan is using every means to make crime and debasing vice popular. We cannot walk the streets of our cities without encountering flaring notices of crime presented in some novel, or to be acted at some theater. The mind is educated to familiarity with sin. The course pursued by the base and vile is kept before the people in the periodicals of the day, and everything that can excite passion is brought before them in exciting stories. They hear and read so much of debasing crime that the once tender conscience, which would have recoiled with horror from such scenes, becomes hardened, and they dwell upon these things with greedy interest.

Satan benytter alle midler for at gøre forbrydelser og laster tiltalende. Man kan ikke spadsere på gaden i vore byer uden at se iøjnefaldende reklamer for forbrydelser, enten i form af en roman eller en teaterplakat. Sindet vænnes til synden. Publikum kan læse om onde og lovløse menneskers bedrifter i tidsskrifterne, og alt, hvad der kan ægge lidenskaberne, skildres i spændende historier. De hører og læser så meget om frygtelige forbrydelser, at sindet bliver hærdet, og til sidst sluger de med begærlighed det, som en gang vakte deres afsky.