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Show DANGERS OF THE DAY. To read or even to take note of every-:hing every-:hing that comes from the press has long since become an impossibility. we f are constrained from the very nature of the case to make some sort of se-lection. se-lection. But how? What principles f-hould guide us? There is no doubt but that we should choose our boofs with the same care and on the same principles with which we choose our friends and companions. In fact a book or a paper is a friend. The volume between be-tween our hands speaks to us just as a friend does, oftentimes even vim greater freedom and straightforwarci-Lcbs. straightforwarci-Lcbs. It informs, it argues. H mnu- S erSuades and entreats, in pre-ean pre-ean tHe S,ame mannr. Nay more; it to viet- Ct US t0 virtue or ente us deliVht ' cousel eood or counsel evil; nobferl 8 b itS breadth of view and nobleness of purpose, or shock us b ts !?,ess of speech lts immorality, the "S ". t as rt are,fommanded to avoid bad com-thiv com-thiv ly from evil associates as from oeLcf e f ? serPent. and to shun all Zen ?f Sin- ThIs obeation to keep out of harm's way, as we value string1 S?Ul' is consequently as fhl ? and as blndjn& upon us in rnf,TlUtr f books as of Persons. How could- it be otherwise For, though the press is a tremendously powerful engine en-gine it is quite as much at the service of the wicked as of the good; and it votild seem that in these days the nicked are even more ready and more zealous in availing themselves of it man are the good and the virtuous. Msgr. John S. Vaughan. |
