The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27
READING FOR CHILDREN,
OPINION OF CHAs. FRANCIS ADAMS.
CLERGYMAN's OPINION
WHuf 1nu 1nn Got Enr E;ro nIIi,r.

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CHAs. FRANCIS ADAMS
Says, in letter to the Quincy tMass.) Pa'ro', tina.
three-fourths of the books in brisk demand 2, the
thinks thar parents ought to guide the children's
taste in the choice Of reading more than they do
The Newark -4drersser in
A TRENcHAST EDITORIAL
On this subject says a worse literature than that
which is spread before the children of this country
1t would hardly be possible for the mind of man to
conceive or his hand to execute. 1t is even worse
than an open advocacy of vice and intemperance
for that would carry its own antidote, while what
We have excites stimulates and debases the intellect
units it for healthy food fills the Imagination with
gaudy and distorted pictures of life and develops
the passions at an age when they should be most
under control. How much Of the low moral tone of
society Is due to these satanic issues Of the press
do not not know but, as river, can nowhere be so
enectually poisoned as at its source. so We have
right to believe that the millions of these papers de-
voured by curious and eager children, must infiu-
ence to alarge extent the tone of thought aud the
drift of action of those whose plastic minds come
under their influence
The writer adds; 1T may be somewhat unneces-
sary to state that We have reference in the above to
those MONTH! magazines for children, which as
as able, as truthful and devoted as Mrs. Mary Names
Dodge (who edits 81. Nichoas) there would be moth
ing to complain Of" The New York Iribrae saws:
"In the
AVALANCHE OF IMMORAL LITERATURE
NAT threatens the children, some strong vitality
wholesome, and really attractive magazine is re-
quiret for them, and ST. NICHOLAS has reached
higher platform, and commands for this service
wider resources in art and letters than any Of its
predecessors or contemporaries"
A CLERGYXAN's OPINION.
Rev. c. S. Robinson, D. D., in an article in the
Sunday School Times, on the subject saws of s..
Nicholas Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Bows
and Girls: "A cleaner, purer, more trustworthy
periodical for children cannot be named 1t is on
the side of all that is true and good from beginning
to end"
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