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LIVE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xvi.
in which the Confession and Absolution are treated as
exceptional : If he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty
matter. The words in the Exhortation for the Holy Communion
are the nearest approach to any sanction for habitual Confession.
Yet there also the case is treated as exceptional : If there beany
of you who by this means cannot quiet his own conscience, but
requireth further comfort or counsel. Now, if any one feels or
declares that he or she is always in this exceptional state, of
course there is nothing further to be said, except that a discreet
and learned minister of God s Word will try to correct anything
that is morbid in such feelings, but a Bishop will not be justified
in authorising any of his clergy to treat as habitually required
what the Church thus regards as exceptional.
written to Mr. on
"Hence the necessity of my having
the subject as I did. I believe I have before referred you for
your guidance in these matters to my two Charges for 1858 and
1866, where both these questions are treated at some length. I
must request you to read this letter to the Sisters, in case they
may be misled by erroneous views, which some seem to entertain.
I trust in this and in all other matters God may guide you to that
calm understanding of the truth, and that wise deference to the
authorities set over you in the Lord, which will be most consistent
with the faithful and humble discharge of the great duties which
you
have undertaken in obedience to the call of Christ. . . .-
Believe me to be, my dear .
very
faithfully and truly
yours, A. C. LONDON."
The Mother Superior of
" MY
- to the tiishop of London.
"
1 2th October 1867.
LORD BISHOP, I have taken the opportunity offered
by all the Sisters being together in London at the beginning of
this week, to lay before them your Lordship s letters to myself,
relating to the appointment of a Chaplain for the Sisterhood, in
order that we might together, prayerfully and calmly, consider all
which your Lordship has kindly written to us, on a subject of
such vital importance to our reality and well-being as a religious
community.
"
The conclusion at which we unanimously arrived was that,
deeply painful and distressing as it is to us to differ, even in this
one respect, from our Bishop (and God only can know how really