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Monday, January [[strikethrough]]18,[[/strikethrough]] 187[[strikethrough]]5[[/strikethrough]]7.

The gravest mischief of sin does not lie in the outward material act, especially when estimated from a merely legal or social point of view. It consists rather in the introduction of a permanent habit or attitude of the will. Of this attitude each outward act of sin is at once the symptom and the aggravation. The foul eruption is less serious in itself than as evidencing the hold which has been laid upon the moral constitution

Tuesday, January 19, 1875.

by the invisible disease. The principle & spirit of rebellion has its seat in the will. Thence it penetrates, as the case may be, into the sphere of thought, or into that of outward actions. But whether it be weakened, or warped or enslaved, the will wh. is deliberately tolerant of the presence of sin is necessarily hostile to a sincere assertion no less of the love than of the rights of God.
Canon Liddon.

Transcription Notes:
REOPENED - Top date entry incorrectly done. Canon was Henry Liddon's title and was a theologian in England