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...labored over his topic, watched by the eight-inch crucifix, gilded, that he had mucked out of War debris. Now he rose, hair kinky, face pouched; said: "If Jesus Christ came back to earth He would work through the individual. We modern Protestants fail in some things. Our Roman Catholic brethren in keeping the confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one feature of human service. Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls. A good priest, through the confessional, can develop a treatment for the individual...
...form of Roman Catholic confession is this : The penitent, kneeling at the confessor's feet, says : "Pray, Father, bless me, for I have sinned." The priest says : "The Lord be in thy heart and on thy lips, that thou mayest truly and humbly confess thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment...
Communion. After bread and wine are blessed, a small portion of each may be "reserved" to give communion to the sick or dying. Under no circumstances may the bread be ostentatiously displayed, as in Roman Catholic churches, nor may it be adored as the body of Christ by kneeling devotees...
...Manhattan newspapers, pretending to have sent reporters to interview Bishop Diaz in "Spanish and French," described him wearing his bishop's ring on his left hand, as though it were a wedding ring. Roman Catholic bishops wear the episcopal ring on the ring finger of the right hand, the hand with which they confer the episcopal blessing...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Command ments, EXODUS 20 : 1-17, and DEUTERONOMY 5 : 6-21. It has been a bitter problem collating and dividing these Laws. Jews follow the Talmud's order, Calvinistic and Eastern Orthodox churches Philo's, Roman Catholics and Lutherans St. Augustine...