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CHRISTIAN CONFESSION
Speaking several years ago at a meeting of clergy in New
York, Dr. Fosdick recommended the institution of a ‘Protestant
Confessional’. He said: ‘We Protestants have erred in some
matters. Our Roman Catholic brothers have kept the
confessional and thereby they have been able entirely to surpass
us in the realm of welfare service. Through the institution of
the confessional they have built up an amazing welfare service
for treating diseased souls. A good priest can, in the confessional,
help individuals in a manner which we have nothing
corresponding to. In spite of the fact that I am a Baptist, I have
myself had for six years what I should like to call a confessional.’
One of the great missions of the Christian Church is to offer
the privilege of confession to whoever desires to use it. In the
reaction against the excesses of the Catholic Church, with its
legalistic view of confession, it is not necessary to go to the other
extreme and deprive confession of its incontestable value. To do
so is to violate a human need, for the need of confession is
rooted in the depths of human nature.
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