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The penalty for the first offense against temperance was less than that for wearing gold braid. The law about drunkenness was that "if any Scholar should be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fin'd one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a publick confession or be degraded, according...
...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 and we have nothing to compare with...
*The 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...
This is an amazing confession of faith for the President of a free and democratic republic to make particularly in times of peace. Mr. Coolidge definitely condemns public opposition to and criticism of American foreign policy. With amusing inconsistency he purports to base his appeal in part on the conviction...
Exact dynamic utterance is expected from the lips of Signor Mussolini. His capacity for being clear amounts to genius. He likes to be clear. Yet he can use weasel words.* The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's great handbook of statesmanly dissimulation, has been studied long and passionately by Benito Mussolini...