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Crucifixion; to the statues and images of hundreds and
hundreds of saints and martyrs; to thousands of authentic or
fictitious bones and relics of the same; and adoration to the
consecrated wafer exactly as to God the Almighty! Still there
is no peace; all sins, grave or otherwise, must be confessed
to the priest; and it is the absolution that the sinner obtains
from that "spiritual father" that produces peace and tran-
quillity in his heart, and fills it with good will!!!
If we turn to the evangelical group of diverse creeds and
tenets, we shall find them endeavoring to procure an internal
peace by praying directly to the three persons of the deity
individually - now to Jesus, now to the Spirit, then to the
Father - with closed eyes, but with oratorical gestures and
movements; by reading the Bible, and by other practices
private or in public; and then they believe that they are filled
with the Holy Spirit and are at peace! But I assure the reader
hundreds of saints and martyrs; to thousands of authentic or
fictitious bones and relics of the same; and adoration to the
consecrated wafer exactly as to God the Almighty! Still there
is no peace; all sins, grave or otherwise, must be confessed
to the priest; and it is the absolution that the sinner obtains
from that "spiritual father" that produces peace and tran-
quillity in his heart, and fills it with good will!!!
If we turn to the evangelical group of diverse creeds and
tenets, we shall find them endeavoring to procure an internal
peace by praying directly to the three persons of the deity
individually - now to Jesus, now to the Spirit, then to the
Father - with closed eyes, but with oratorical gestures and
movements; by reading the Bible, and by other practices
private or in public; and then they believe that they are filled
with the Holy Spirit and are at peace! But I assure the reader