APOLOGY IN CHURCH.

Waipa Post, Volume XIX, Issue 1076, 12 April 1921, Page 5

APOLOGY IN CHURCH.

A REMARKABLE SCENE.

A remarkable scene has been witnessed in the parish church of North Kelsey, in Lincolnshire. Two girls—one eighteen years of age and the other twenty-four—made a public confession before the assembled congregation of unseemly behaviour, which consisted in having interfered with the ornaments of the church — inverting some of the candlestick, for instance —and apologised and then received forgiveness.

The girls, says the Daily Mail, appeared some days ago before the local magistrates, who adjourned the case in order that they might have an opportunity of making a public apology. Accordingly, on the following Sunday, at the end of the- usual church service, the girls, at the invitation of the vicar, Rev. J. L. N. Pheasant, came forward in front of the whole congregation, while' the vicar recited the circumstances and then delivered an address deprecating the offence, ending by reading aloud a confession and apology they had made. The congregation were asked to kneel’while the girls made a confession of their sin to God.

When they had finished, the vicar, speaking on behalf of the congregation, the churchwardens, and himself, assured the pair that they had full forgiveness. He then dismissed them, and the churchwarden ied them on their way out of the church.