Chapter 1—A Worldly Element Takes the Lead
- Introduction
- Chapter 1—The Value of Visual Presentation
- Chapter 2—Effective Also for Evil
- Chapter 3—Seventh-day Adventists Wrestle With the Problem
- Chapter 4—At The Battle Creek Sanitarium
- Chapter 5—SDA Literary Societies
- Chapter 6—Lyceums and Literary Societies
- Chapter 7—Counsel Regarding the 1888 Enacted Christmas Program
- Chapter 8—The Use of Our Talents in Communication
- Chapter 9—Senses Confused by Games and Theatrical Performances
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- Appendix D—ENACTED SCENES
- Appendix E—THE EVANGELIST AND THEATRICAL DISPLAY
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Chapter 1—A Worldly Element Takes the Lead
The purpose and object for which literary societies are established may be good, but unless wisdom from above and continual reliance upon God is preserved by all, there will be a decided failure in its exerting a saving influence.DPSDAI 12.2
When God’s professed people voluntarily unite with the world or give men of short religious experience the pre-eminence in these literary societies, they do not have a high estimate of eternal things. They step over the line in the very first movement. There may be boundaries, set rules, and regulations made; but, notwithstanding all this, the worldly element will take the lead. Men on the enemy’s ground, led and controlled by his power, will have a controlling influence, unless there is an infinite power to work against them. Satan uses men as his agents to suggest, to lead out, to propose different acts and a variety of amusing things which give no strength to the morals or elevation to the mind, but are wholly worldly. Soon the religious element is ruled out, and the irreligious elements take the lead.DPSDAI 12.3