Word: penitente
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Mr. Benjamin's slightly cynical little allegory, "A Vocational Trilogy," suggests that man has too much pride, or perhaps is too foolish, to admit failure, and will cheerfully repeat his mistakes. "The Crimson Stain," by Mr. Burman, is a grim and hardly a convincing story of a penitent grave-snatcher...
In "Trespass," two miners, shut up in a cave, are dying of exhaustion. Mike comforts himself by constant prayer; Pete blasphemes. In time Mike's assurance that he dies in peace because the sins of the penitent are forgiven by God and by all Christian men gives Pete new hope...
The morning and evening prayer, he said, are essentially services of praise, but it is striking that at the very beginning of each service comes this penitent confession of our own unworthiness. This is characteristic of the Episcopal Service. The confession is very old and was undoubtedly in use before...
Both Steele and Addison were born in 1672. Steele, an Irishman and the senior by six months. When old enough Steele went to Oxford, and there first met Addison, with whom he formed a friendship which lasted almost throughout their lives. After leaving college, Steele went into the army, against...
Appleton Chapel was completely filled last night by those who took advantage of the fine evening to hear the Rev. Lyman Abbott preach. Dr. Abbott took as his text, Matthews ix.: 22. The central idea of his sermon was that there is no purification without pain. The Bible, he says...