Unshrived

Christians have been called into the dread presence, unconfessed and unshrived, to-night; and we should bethink us of their souls, rather than indulge in this grief in behalf of one that, however faithful, ends but an unreasoning and irresponsible existence."

Sprung from the carnival dances, where the masked Death forcing the terrified maidens to his embrace led them to the cemeteries to celebrate the memory of the dead, the priest countenanced these masks as religious rites and taught the superstitious people that their gifts would ease the souls of those sent suddenly unshrived to hell.

I cannot get at Priestley, the originator of the wicked fable that has deceived so many honest men, and Walker, his partner in iniquity, as they have long ago gone to the grave, no doubt unrepentant and unshrived.