From Adam’s day to ours there has been a succession of falls, each greater than the last, in every species of crime. God did not create a race of beings so devoid of health, beauty, and moral power as now exists in the world. Disease of every kind has been fearfully increasing upon the race. This has not been by God’s especial providence, but directly contrary to His will. It has come by man’s disregard of the very means which God has ordained to shield him from the terrible evils existing (The Review and Herald, March 4, 1875). {1BC 1082.8}

Fra Adams dage til nu har der været mange fald, hvert fald større end det foregående, og det gælder enhver form for forbrydelse. Gud skabte ikke en slægt, der var så blottet for sundhed, skønhed og moralsk styrke som den, der lever i verden i dag. Sygdom af enhver art har (1083) hærget slægten i en stadig uhyggeligere grad. Dette er ikke sket ved Guds særlige forsyn, men direkte imod hans vilje. Det er en følge af, at menneskene har ringeagtet netop det, som Gud havde bestemt til at skulle beskytte dem mod de forfærdelige synder, der herskede. (samme., 4. marts, 1875).