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Show THE NEED OF CONFESSION. Nothing like a good illustration in discussing almost any subject. We do not know whether the . following ever appeared in print before, but it was certainly original with the priest Who made use of it a few weeks ago. He was impressing upon a Protestant that the power to forgive sins granted by our Lord to the Apostles involved the practice of confession on the part of those seeking to avail themselves of such power. "If," he said, "your father fath-er empowered and requested you in his will to remit any debts due him which . you might judge it proper to remit, - and if a debtor ot bis came iorwaru after your father's death and asked you to exercise that power in his regard, re-gard, would you not be obliged to inquire in-quire of the man what he owed your father? In other words, you would require a confession before granting absolution." The Casket, Antigonish, N. S... |