Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went to the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, in Reidsville, N. C., to confess her sins. She told him that she had killed her father and was sorry. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue accepted her confession and told the police. Mrs. Petty was tried for murdering her...
To the House of the Jesuits at Rome there had come and yanked the ancient bellpull a decently dressed youth who announced himself as Signor De Angelis. He must, he said, he must make an important confession to good Father Tacchi-Venturi. The porter, rubbing sleepy eyes, told the youth...
At the Congregationalist conference in Chicago, Dr. Malcolm Dana, Director of Town & Country department of the Congregational Church Extension Board for the past ten years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people...
The revivalist preacher was fixed with a nice choice of loyalties; he chose to respect the law rather than the sanctity of the confession which he had received and last week Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial in the village of Wentworth for having killed her father. The courtroom...
One of her own two lawyers, Percy T. Stiers, made the point that gave the trial its religious significance. Should a confession made, in complete confidence, to a minister, be brought into court as evidence? Lawyer Stiers pointed a thin finger at the Rev. Pardue and called him "a witch...