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<p>The marvels and triumphs of the printing-press have <br />
          now made accessible to peasant and labourer, the <br />
          wondrous blessing of <strong>Christian literature!</strong> Neither <br />
          Croesus nor Plato—the two old-world representatives <br />
          of wealth and thought—had a library to compare with <br />
          what is readily available to us. <br />
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          Let the young especially prize this splendid inheritance, <br />
          making it alike a privilege and obligation to devote some<br />
          hours to reading and garnering mental stores. Let them <br />
          <strong>beware of wasted moments</strong>—golden ingots—too often <br />
          mortgaged to . . .<br />
          sloth,<br />
          frivolity,<br />
          idleness, <br />
          voluptuous ease and<br />
          degrading passion. <br />
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          &quot;<strong>Redeeming the time</strong>, because the days are evil.&quot; Eph. 5:16