The Archive · 1923

A Word from the Confessional

There are various restraints at Home that we miss out here. And if a man must be religious at Home there is twice the need here. In a novel just published, of unusual ability, a woman of extraordinary charm and "qual callousness, makes a confession of her past and says, My husband liked the right sort of people, doing the right sort of thing. I hated it because wasn't bred to it. It was like a hard crust over all one's thought and expressions and desires... So I did otherwise. But I _Wasn't happy. I was breaking every conventional -rule. People who break rules never are happy, they make a lot of noise, but its to drown the tongues of conscience." I quote that be cause I believe it is typical. It is a word from the confessional that may count for more than any word from the pulpit.

What is to be done in view of such instructive transgressions? It wem a: poor remedy to sub-

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