A Sad Commentary by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 18, 1875

A Sad Commentary.

By Uriah Smith

The following item from the Detroit Evening News, describing a scene that occurred in the celebrated Ward will case, just tried in Detroit, gives just cause of alarm at the evident demoralization going on in the tastes of those who have been supposed to be the better classes of society. During the argument of one of the lawyers, who was showing up the awful revelations of this case, the News says that

“The occupant of the pulpit of the finest church and the worst criminal of the Potomac, shoulder to shoulder, eagerly listened to the torrents of obscenity and abuse as they flowed in one continuous stream from the lips of the leading criminal lawyer of the universe. The intense interest the ladies took in the portions most given to filth, and things that grate harshly on moral sensitiveness, was a sad commentary on their natures.” U. S.