Morbus Sabbaticus is a disease peculiar to certain "church members".

Here are some of its symptoms:

• 1. It never interferes with the appetite.

• 2. It never lasts more than twenty-four hours at a time.

• 3. No physician is ever called.

• 4. It always proves fatal in the end - to the soul, anyway.

• 5. It is contagious - husbands have been known to give it to wives, wives to husbands, children to parents, parents to children, and friends to friends, and etc.

The attack usually comes on suddenly every Sunday. No ill effects are felt on Saturday night, and the patient awakes as usual, feeling fine. He eats a hearty breakfast. About 9:00 A.M. the attack comes on - sometimes earlier - and it lasts until around noon.

In the afternoon the patient is much improved. He is able to take a ride and read the Sunday Newspaper. The patient eats a hearty supper and seems fine - but the attack comes on again and lasts through the evening. When the clock sounds on Monday morning, the patient is usually - somehow - able to make it to work as usual.

"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching" (Hebrews 10:24-25).

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