Confession unto Salvation.
By Charles S. Pomeroy
Nothing so surely consumes the health and vigor of the soul as acting an unfelt part, like a pretender to piety on the one hand, or an unrepentant worldling, constantly denying his holiest convictions, on the other hand. Utter what you do not believe, and less and less will you be capable of really believing anything sound and true. Pretend what you do not feel, or stifle what you do feel, and feeling will die out. It is an inevitable law of retribution. Our emotions seek appropriate outward expression. Grief utters itself through tears; mirth speaks through laughter. So religious life, though seated in the soul, must have certain forms wherein to reveal itself. The attempt to make it dispense with these would do much to destroy it entirely.—Rev. Charles S. Pomeroy, D. D. “Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High.” Ps. 50: 14.