No evil thing comes of our true selves, and confession is the casting of it from us, the only true denial.

A half-confession is almost an impossibility.

This confession must be a hard sort of job, we know, for some people; but we are not going to enter upon a discussion of its merits or demerits.

"Confession would, perhaps, be a better word for it.

St Augustine's Confessions are the story of a God-tortured, mine of an art-tortured, soul.

We all know the sadness of that Psalm; its weariness, as of one who had laboured long, and would fain be at rest; its confession of man's frailtyfading away suddenly like the grass; its confession of God's strength, God from everlasting, before the mountains were brought forth; its eternal gospel of hope and comfort, that the strength of God takes pity on the weakness of man, 'Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another.

Confession of the truth, is here the aim of speaking, but not of what is spoken.

"We have done those things which we ought not to have done; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done:" among all the sons of men there is none, who truly knows himself, who dare be silent when the great confession is madenone save the Son of Man; for He, it has well been said, was not the one thing which we all are; He was not a sinner.

"Hence the confession has become a hacknied proverb.

If that confession of hers had been relief to her father it had been more so to her.

"And now abideth confession, prayer, and praise, these three; but the greatest of these is praise.

And then, remembering that the sinner was so near his end, and that this voluntary confession of his was in some manner a sign of repentance, she felt some compunction, and spoke to him in a softer tone.

"Hence the confession has become a hackneyed proverb."Wayland cor.

" This confession of her favorite, who, after his temper cooled, was always quick to admit that he had been in the wrong, quite pacified Mary, and she settled down on the wolfskin rug with the children and began her story.

That accursed "Quarterly Review" had vexed me by a gratuitous speaking, of its own knowledge, that the "Confessions of a Drunkard" was a genuine description of the state of the writer.

Every confession that man is vicious is a confession that virtue is visionary.

The great master word is the confession of faiththere is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.

" Cindy's "free confessions" are an important feature of the book.

Even confessions obtained by fraud are admissiblethough we might wish otherwise.

"A mere confession before witnesses by a man and woman that they are willing to take each other for husband and wife is often a legal ceremony, and if there is any kind of a religious person present to perform the ceremony, it helps, and in a case like this no stone should be left unturned.

As Miss Cushman had stood sponsor for him, she having been a pupil of the real Rarey, his confession was a mortification which she visited on my head, but as it disarmed her I was tranquil over the consequences.

Whereas confession, being the expression of repentance, should be more particular, as repentance itself should be.

Would the honourable gentleman, sir, who has thus vilified this wonder-working nectar, but honour my table with his company, he would quickly be forced to retract his censures; and, as many of his countrymen have done, confess that nothing equal to it is produced in any other part of the globe; nor will this confession be the effect of his regard to politeness, but of his adherence to truth.

Our Confession is a perfect model for Christian communities. 4.

This confession to you is proof that you have brought me face to face with the greatest adventure of all.