CONFESSION.

New Zealand Tablet, 11 March 1920, Page 31

CONFESSION.

The Rev. Shaw, Professor of Protestant Theology at Taylor University, writes in The. SI. Thames Journal: "I was for three weeks in a great American concentration canin. to assist soldiers who had been in France at the heigh! of the battle, and they have assured me that the two Things they craved most, before entering into the affray, were—the one to go to confession, the other to receive Holy Communion. And why did thousands of Protestant soldiers join the Catholics in hearing Mass? Why did they seek with such yearning the Catholic confessional? Because they wished to purify their souls of the stains of sin; because it was the only way to rid themselves of the anguishing thought, ' to die in God's disgrace!' and they wished to die with Jesus Christ on their lips and in their hearts!" "We cannot help acknowledging," concludes the Protestant divine, "that confession imposes itself. For over a century we have- refused to confess our sins, but we must go back and confess that since the horror of this war the souls hunger and thirst after Jesus Christ." ...