A MODEL CONFESSION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVIII, Issue 267, 12 November 1892, Page 4

A MODEL CONFESSION.

■- ♦ Seyesal years ago, m & Western town, a yoang lawyer, a member of a larga ohurch, got drunk. Tha brethren said he must confess ; ha demurred. Ha knew the members to b« good people, but th«y had their little faults, such aa driving sharp bargains, aerewing the labourer down to low wag«s, loaning money at illflgal rates misrepresenting articles they had for sale eto. But they w«rt good people, and pressed the lawyer to coras before tha church meeting and own up hit sin of taking a glass too much, for they •wera temperance people, and abhorred intemperance. The sinner finally went to confession, and found a large gathering of brethren and sisters, whose bowed heads roBB and whose oyes glistened with pure dtlight as the lawyer began his confession : — "I confess," he said, "that I never took ten p«r cent far money." On that confession down went a brothel's head with a groan. " I never turned a poor man from my door who needed food and shelter." Down west another head. "I confess I ntter sold skim- milk cheese for a naw one." Whereupon a woman shrieked for mercy. "I confess that I have never been Pharisaical and self-righteous, and hara not sought to injure or persecute those who have not happened to agrea with ma; when down dropped numerous heads. " I confess that I have never played the hypocrite, and do sot lis, and that I have not used religion as > cloak;" when down went several other beads, and among thsm the head 3of the very ones who were anxious that he should confess. "But,"coneloded the sinner, "I have been drunk, and I am very sorry for it." Whereupon the meeting quietly dispersed. ■