The difference between it and growing old cannot be treated as a mere matter of degree.

Now one of the points I make is that the Church, by expressly allowing Confession on this singular occasion, while saying nothing about it on any other, thereby inferentially excludes it on all others--or discountenances it, to say the least." "There I join issue with you, maintaining that all such occasions are covered by the general authority bestowed at Ordination with the laying-on of hands--'Whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven,' etc.

To construe an open exhortation in one of her offices as a silent denunciation in all the rest seems to me--" For the next few minutes the pair enjoyed themselves to the top of their bent; until, as the Master pushed aside some papers on the table to get at his Prayer Book--to prove that No.

XXV of the Articles of Religion did not by its wording disparage Absolution--his eye fell on a letter which lay uppermost.

He paused midway in a sentence, picked the thing up and held it for a moment disgustfully between forefinger and thumb.
"Brother Copas," he said with a change of voice, "we lose ourselves in logomachy, and I had rather hark back to a word you let drop a while ago about the Brotherhood.