Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-08

CONFESSION rs TilE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.

The one feature which has startled
public feeling most u the HyHttmntlc
attempt 60 DRAG young children into the
confessional Manuals % confession
have been brought To light this year Tor
'Nttll sinners ~ FlN and n half 20 seven
years uld,' IN which they are instruct.
eds You must tell tho priest all tho
sins that you remember 20 have com.
mlttDdi God absolutely requires this"
Those who have "wiluuy concealed
their sins Ia confession have been un-
happy ana turmuntrd with rrmorso.
ana 10 they had died ln that state. their
soul would have been M the greatest
danger ~ everlasting death" 80
This phase ~ the Nomanlft revival
was specially taken in hand by the Hr-
crHt society of the Holy CrnHa. This
society was responsible Tor the issue
~ the manual, 'rhr priest Ia nhsolu.
ton. art fuuntaln-head from which
nll these manuals fur young and old
have sprung Archbishop TAFT said in
thU House VI Lords that "it b. o. d..
grace 90 The community that such "a
book should ha circulated under the uu-
thHniy uf elrrFl men of tho established
church. 40 rirht-mlndy1 man would
allow such questions 90 b. addressed
Geo any member uf hls family. and ~
D. hhi reason 90 suppose that bic FAM
llN hal been exposed 90 such nu uNAm-
iratiun, u would be- his duty tD warn
such CLERGY man never 90 approach hla
house again. Yet the WpilakuoWn in.
Cumheut ~ a. AibhnH. the ROY. A. ".
Mackonochlc. anldi Its principles az
those which govern, I believe. All cun-
fesunrH among ourHrlyrs.'
The "Hacrnwrnt ~ pennnpo," with ita
secret and compulsory and habitunl
handing over of the soul and
the conscience II tho indl.
NIdual 10 priest, na Il la
the most inHldl0uu. 4 also the most
eagerly and nsHlduouHly used weapon
Of the Snccrdutaliats The most recent
and startling Illustration Of the moJus
oporandi has been the enilcing the boy
Cavalier from the house of his father
"a wull-knoWn evangelical clergyman
by a comrudn. This cumuids fifHt took
him, unknown Go his family. 10 ritual.
iHtlc rrrviccs ana then onticcd him ID
confess % the incumbent. "Fathrf"
hHdge. Who gave him, az n msmsnto ~
his "hrt cumfcaaiun." manual by
Cardinal Manning The deroy then en-.
uccd tho lad IN conceal himself with
another rtunlist In Drrhynhiro
whence he was sent 20 "A sort of train
Ing convent IN SUFFOLK
A. 90 confession. the extremists have
even less 20 rest upon than na regards
other oyntions. unhenrd of in tho pfim-
tive chuuh. condemned In oTprs4s
%.
only loHallEed In the Roman churrh M
tho thirteenth century, Withdrawn Tor.
mIly IN the first year Of Edward VI
BY tho repeal ~ the act OF tho sixth ar.
tIcloH. and absolutely disuasd in IN
English church Tor three centuries. am
Ia unhappy revival By Or. Pussy nnd
hla frienhhl the fYatem was further con-
dpmned by the committee Of convooa-
tinn In 1873 and by the Lambeth confer
'nce N 1873 The English church docs
not "enluin or encourage tho prnrties
~ hnhltuh confession 70 priest or
teach that such practice, or tho being
subject 10 tho direction 81 n priest. n
spiritual life."
The bishop ~ Rouihwel has points,
out that In 1859 private confession 10 a
lueAt wna expunged from tho prayer-
book, and the public confession placsi
where u now ~ In tho communion eer.
vice, nv the answer OF tho Enrli.h
church 10 the council Of Trent in the
previous year The very word ''confea-
Flou' was stricken out Of mo exhortn.
ton IN the communion service .-'dThe
crisis in the church of England" Nv
t.rnucls Allston Claiming, NJ. ~, In the
juno Forum. ''''