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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 17.

4303 — CONFESSING FAULTS

By Editor

How do you explain James 5:16, "Confess your faults one to another"? K. S.

This text says to confess our faults one to another. We are not to confess to some outside person who is not concerned,—not to the priest, but one to another. The individual who has wronged another, is to go to that person and confess the wrong he has done to him. He might go to another and talk over his weaknesses and get counsel and help in gaining the mastery over these tendencies, and they could pray together for his healing. Of course in instances where the sin has been open, and where others have participated in or been injured by it, the confession should be open. And in some cases the confession is to be made to God only. The confession should extend as far as the wrong.