But I recognised that the general English mind--yes, I'll grant you, the general _healthy_ English mind--had its prejudice too; a prejudice so sturdy against Confession, that it seemed to me I should alienate more souls than I attracted and breed more ill-temper than charity to cover it.
So--weakly perhaps--I never spoke of it in sermons, and by consequence no Brother of St.Hospital has ever sought from me that comfort which my conscience all the while would have approved of giving." Brother Copas bowed his head for sign that he understood.
"But--excuse me, Master--you say that you found profit in Confession at Cuddesdon; that is, when I dare say your manhood was young and in ferment.

Be it granted that just at such a crisis, Confession may be salutary.

Have you found it profitable in later life ?" "I cannot," the Master answered, "honestly say more than that no doubt of it has ever occurred to me, and for the simple reason that I have not tried.

But I see at what you are driving--that we of St.
Hospital are too old to taste its benefit?
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