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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 19, 1867

A UNITARIAN minister at Toledo, Ohio, described sin as a “transient, though voluntary morbidness.” It is a slight sickliness, a transient unhealthiness of the moral nature. The adulterer is in a morbid state, and therefore transgresses the seventh commandment. The profane man becomes morbid, and bursts forth into oaths and cursing. A man in a court-room is overcome with “morbidness,” and straightway perjures himself. It is “transient,” however, and he recovers himself, when the evil deed is done, and cannot be recalled.—What unspeakable folly!—Presbyterian.