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Television on Trial
I have always believed in giving everyone a fair trial, never reaching a decision before all the evidence was in; therefore, I want to get all the evidence in and then let you decide for yourself whether TV is good or EVIL.
THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO EVERY TRIAL, AND THERE ARE TWO SIDES ON THIS TRIAL‹GOD'S SIDE AND THE DEVIL'S SIDE. WE WILL LET THE DEFENDANT TESTIFY FIRST, THE WORLD'S (OR DEVIL'S) SIDE.
1. The TV fans say that it is the best entertainment that there is anywhere (Just a picture show in the home.)
2. The picture show operators say that TV is hurting them more thatn anything that has ever come against them.
3. The whiskey industry says that TV is the best advertising that they have. More people see it than any other advertising.
4. The beer industry says that TV is "tops." More children are seeing the advertisements and are trying its product (beer).
5. The tobacco industry says give TV advertising first. It is the best.
6. The devil says TV is tops for me. It is keeping more people out of church than the show ever did. (95 percent of the programs are for me.) It is the greatest crime breeder that I have ever had. TV is doing more to make criminals out of our boys and girls than anything else I have.
7. The F.B.I. says that TV is one of the four (comic books, picture shows, and radios) greatest influences for evil that we have.
8. The criminal lawyers say that TV is the greatest crime breeder that we have in America today.
9. The educators say that TV is the greatest hindrance to education of all the evils that we have.
10. Optometrists say that TV is one of the hardest things on the eye that we have today.
HERE IS GOD AND HIS PEOPLE TO TESTIFY ABOUT THE TELEVISION.
1. God said, "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." I John 2:15. "I will set not wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the works of them that turn aside." Psa. 101:3.
2. One minister says TV is the greatest curse that ever came to any home; and another said that TV is the greatest influence that the devil has today.
3. One couple who had been backslidden got back to God and gave their TV away as soon as they could. (Why? Because they couldn't walk with God and have it in the home.)
4. In one place where a revival was going on a number of folks who owned TV sets got under conviction and came to the altar and asked God to forgive them and then got up and asked the church to forgive them. (Why? Because it was wrong.)
5. In one place two thirds of a professed-holiness congregation bought television sets and stayed ad home during services. The pastor resigned.
6. One has said that TV is doing more to damn the human family than any other one thing in all the world.
It is the greatest miracle of today for the promotion of evil. Day and night TV advertises all of the devil's products in the home‹whiskey, beer, wine, tobacco, robbing, stealing, drinking, gambling, adultery, fornication, nudeness. God have mercy on anyone who claims to be of God and has a TV set in his home. The TV opens a beer parlor, a whiskey store, a tobacco store, and a house of prostitution in our homes. We are told of a committee in New york which investigated the results of TV on children. The results of the investigation were that in the last three years, since TV has taken over, crime among children had increased 400 percent. This is a bad showing for TV.
I believe that I can see the danger, or some of the dangers, that we, as God's people, face today‹Communism, Catholicism; but the greatest danger that we face today is Television. It is hurting the American spiritually and morally far more than all the others put together.
Yet, we have so few preachers who will cry against it. Oh, that "straddle of the fence" crowd. "Oh, I am against it, but‹" Yes, that is it! The goat is still alive. Why don't you cry out against it if you are against it? Just a coward, afraid of the world.
The F.B.I. sees the danger of TV. The educators see it; the criminal lawyers see it' the doctors see it; why can't the preachers see it? Beware of becoming a dumb dog (Isaiah 56:10). God said, "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at THINE hand." Ezekiel 3:17-18. ‹Selected
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinances of their God." Isa. 58:1-2.
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