16 DECEMBER 1905, Page 14

HOW FAR IS A FALLIBLE CONFESSION INFALLIBLE

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1

SIR,—Your correspondent " Rhadamanthus " in last week's Spectator is more careless in his judicial summing-up than one might have hoped a Judge in the Court of Hades to be. The Church of Scotland does not say that the Confession "is infallible," but that "it is to be regarded as an infallible rule," up to a certain extent. They follow Trent, which does not decree the Vulgate to be authentic, but simply that habeatur pro authenticci. The distinction is obvious, on earth; and should be recognised even in Hades.—I am,