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Title: You and I;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Etiquette Culture
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. (etc.) F. B. Dickerson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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better judgmentcondemns, it is time to draw back and assert our manhoodand independence. But good and necessary as it is to have associates amongour equals, we should never forget that there is one whosesociety and fellowship we should seek above all others,—the one in whom we live and move and have our being,and from whom we receive every good and perfect gift, ourMaker, Preserver, Benefactor and Redeemer, the God andFather of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through him our Father.To walk with him as we pass along through life, to have alittle talk with Jesus amid the hurry and business of the day,and have the comforting fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is aboon and safeguard of greater value than all the favor andfriendship of the world. Having said this much concerning books and associates,this article would be incomplete were no mention made of the YOU AND I. 99 care and precaution necessary in their selection, for, judge ascharitably as we may, there is no disguising the fact that the
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moral effect of many booksand associates is pernicious.And how can it be otherwiseso long as the country is flood-ed with the light, trashy, vul-gar literature that is thrownupon the market, and dissemi-nated through the land at anominal price, and read by themasses! Many innocent and Hunsuspecting youths readingthese obscene books in whichvice, a monster of frightful mien when seen in its native ugliness, WHAT WOULD MOTHER SAY 100 BOOKS AND ASSOCIATES. is so gilded, and associated with what is alluring and attractive,are enticed thereby and led from one act of sin to another^until they are lost to all shame, and even glory in their degrada-tion. A man might as well eat unwholesome and poisonousfood and expect the body to remain healthy and strong, as tofeed the mind or heart with obscene literature, and expect itto retain its native vigor and purity. And yet howsad tosay that, with all the warnings that are given, and the fearfulwrecks that lie strewn all along the path of dissipatio

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