Letters: Mar. 28, 1927

Confessional

Sirs:

. . . When, however, he [Rev. Harry E. Fosdick] states that "I am not afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away —beauty of service and the confessional," he shows that he does not know the Lutheran service and doctrine. I, as a layman bedridden for six years, with ten ribs removed under local anaesthesia to collapse the right lung and close to the end on several occasions, wish to inform Dr. Fosdick that the confessional has ALWAYS been a part of the LUTHERAN religion, but entirely voluntary. I inclose...

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