Eapsed Communicants.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 2 October 1922, Page 412

Eapsed Communicants.

Where are the 190 persons who have been Confirmed m this church during the last six years? They, one and all, stood- up and solemnly promised, before God and the congregation, that they would be faithful Christians unto their life's end. But the promises" of a good many of them Avere like pie-crust; they were broken m a very short time. Why, many of them never come near church at all, and as for their Communions, why, they hardly come once a year, if that much! This is all very sad, especially to our Lord Jesus Christ. Do realise your position as a perjured person, if. you are one of them, and make a fresh start. We cannot call ourselves Christians if we, are not most regular m our Communions arid m our worship. But perhaps it is some secret sin which keeps you away from your Lord and Saviour.— "St. Augustine's Parish Magazine," V'".^^.''-' ■ This is the experience of every parish. However carefully a parish * priest inquires before a Confirmation

as to the earnestness of . his confirmees, he has this disapopintment afterwards. Whose fault is it 1