Said one Unitarian minister to another, about the time when
the breaking out of our Civil War exposed the wickedness of
its instigators: “I never before felt so much like swearing.”
“Well,” was the reply, “I felt as you do; but I turned to
the Old Testament, and picked out one of good old David’s
imprecatory Psalms. I read it twice aloud, and since then I have
felt much better.”
(1554)