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Show In affliction, say in the loss of a beloved member of your family, despite every attenlion, natural ami supernatural, the true Christian, the true Catholic, however sorrowful at heart, must be submissive to ; the will of. God. "Blessed are they who mourn; they shall be comforted." Morning Star. when with the authority of God they retain some sins aud forgive others." Time and space will not allow me to quote but one more of the hundreds whose testimony hear out ! year after year the strict carrying out of God's j Divine Sacrament by his one. Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. The one I refer to is the venerable ven-erable Bede (whom all English-speaking people consider con-sider a master of erudition). He writes: "If the sick are in sins and confess to the Presbyters of the Church, they will be forgiven." So much for ihe evidence of the Fathers. Xow as to the objection raised against confession that of improper behavior in the Confessional. There is very little to say, because those who start these base lies do so either through (louse ignorance of all things appertaining to the Confessional, or for the purpose erf monetary gain, at the expense of truth and justice. Passing over the objections which have no foundation foun-dation in fact, the writer will add that since his entrance into the true fold he has found the greatest great-est consolation and happiness in the Tribunal of Penance, so much so, that he wonders every day why he did not embrace the faith sooner of that true Church cf God which tells every weary one, "There is more jojy among the angels in heaven, over one siuner doing penance thanover ninety-nine ninety-nine that need no penance." .V. II. L. W- , " ) s |