thing,” they say, “to concentrate on your sins; it only adds to the number of neurotics who suffer from a guilt complex.” Well, some forms of confession are unhealthy, especially if we keep raking over our past which should have been long ago confessed, forsaken, and forgiven. But true confession, the honest, shamefaced uncovering before God of the sins of the past day or week, far from being unhealthy, is an essential condition of spiritual health. It is the person who covers his sins who is unhealthy;