NAPIER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 22, 28 September 1894, Page 19

NAPIER.

(From an occasional Correspondent.)

September 17, 1894. Fatheb Huault, of Meanee Seminary, officiated at all the dtvotions in 8t Mary's church on Sunday last, Father Grogan being absent in the Wairoa, whither he has gone to prepare the way for the missionaries, who have just concluded a very successsul mission at Hastings,

At second Mass Father Huault preached an impressive discourse on confession. la answering the question, " What ia the use of confession 1 ' the rev gentleman quoted various cases, such as the artisan who was formerly addicted to drink, the poor woman overwhelmed with sorrow and ill-treated by her husband, who after confession returns cheerfully to her home, and endures her sorrow more patiently ; the merchant who got rich at his master's expense, but through confession remorseful feelings took possession of bia soul, and the conBequencewas a thief less in the world. What was the nse of confession? Ask the poor inhabitants of any district whom the proprietor has left in misery and want. He bas been to confession and he becomes a father to his unfortunate tenants. Confession takes away from the world innumerable crimes, misfortunes, and calamities Some of the defects urged against confession was that it was bo tiresome. But if a person took medicine for a disease it was not for pleasure, but aa a remedy. After all, the defects were imaginary. Another defect was that some people who went to confession were not better than their neighoura, but in answer to that he could say that thousands who went to confession were the better for itPeople who argued in this manner probably saw the mote in their brother's eye, but not the beam in their own, They did not cease to be men because they were Christians, and still had all the different temptations to contend against.

The following appeared in a well-written leading article in the Daily Telegraph, anent the recent painful case tried in the Supreme Court, in which an old man got seven years' imprisonment :—": — " We all know what human nature is without discipline, and the people of these colonies have pro,f daily and hourly before their eyes of the awful consequence of neglecting the moral training of their youth. Children now get very little training of this kind in our secular schools, and tha teaching of the Sunday school is after all a poor substitute for the old-fashioned restraint and example of a well ordered home."

The Goolgardie exodus which has set in all over New Zealand is also going on in Hawke's Bay. The two steamers leaving here last

Saturday took away a large number of young men from this part of the colony, many of whom gave up good positions to proceed to the Western Australian goldfields.