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feeding. So you can see that if you feed on what is unclean

you will become unclean. I would like to appeal to the young

brethren not to feed on what is unclean. Look at your reading

material, examine it, see if it is really doing you any good. I am

not being hard or legal, I am seeking to prevent damage to

your soul. I think you will find that one of the great features of

the glad tidings is its power to change your taste. Scripture

says. Taste and see that the Lord is good (see Psalm 34: 8).

He is good, you know, and you are to taste it, not only to

apprehend it in your mind, but to taste it. It is to affect your

senses inwardly that the Lord is good. Taste and see it.

So I would appeal to the young people to make a resolve and

seek God’s help to be preserved from reading material that will

damage the soul and lead to uncleanness. This world is full of

uncleanness, especially in its literature, and many of those

who have written books or plays are immoral. One says that in

a feeling way, and not in an extreme or biased way, but you

know there is great safety in reading the Scriptures, and great

joy. The psalmist could speak of meditating in Jehovah’s law

day and night (see Psalm 1: 2). When you grow older and do

not sleep too well you can always put a light on, reach to the

side of your bed and pick up your Bible and read something.

You will benefit in your soul from it. So Paul says, “Because it

is the God who

spoke that out of darkness light should shine”; that takes us

right back to the beginning of Genesis, engaging our minds

with the great operations of God in creation, and the great

general matter of light coming in from God. It is that God who

has shone in our hearts, not merely into them, but in them.

Think of that God, the same God who operated in such

glorious and supreme power in the bringing in of light into the

creation, so that we are able to see things. But think of that

same God shining in our hearts. The shining is to remain

there, you know. What for? “for the shining forth of the

knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”.