We deal now with the two last Sacraments under consideration--Penance and Unction. Both are Sacraments of healing. Penance is for the healing of the soul, and indirectly of the body: Unction is for the healing of the body, and indirectly of the soul. "Every Sacrament," says St. Thomas Aquinas, "has been instituted to produce one special effect, although it may produce, as consequences, other effects besides." It is so with these two Sacraments. Body and Soul are so involved, that what directly affects the one must indirectly affect the other. Thus, the direct effect of Penance on the soul must indirectly affect the body, and the direct effect of Unction on the body must indirectly affect the soul. We will think of each in turn. First, Penance. {145} _Penance._ The word is derived from the Latin _penitentia_, penitence, and its root-meaning (_poena_, punishment) suggests a punitive element in all real repentance. It is used as a comprehensive term for confession of sin, punishment for sin, and the Absolution, or Remission of Sins. As Baptism was designed to recover the soul from original or inherited sin, so Penance was designed to recover the soul from actual or wilful sin....[1] It is not, as in the case of infant Baptism, administered wholly irrespective of free will: it must be freely sought ("if he humbly and heartily desire it"[2]) before it can be freely bestowed. Thus, Confession must precede Absolution, and Penitence must precede and accompany Confession. _Confession._ Here we all start on common ground. We all agree upon one point, viz. the necessity of Confession (1) _to God_ ("If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins") {146} and (2) _to man_ ("Confess your faults one to another"). Further, we all agree that confession to man is in reality confession to God ("Against Thee, _Thee only_, have I sinned"). Our only ground of difference is, not _whether_ we ought to confess, but _how_ we ought to confess. It is a difference of method rather than of principle. There are two ways of confessing sins (whether to God, or to man), the informal, and the formal. Most of us use one way; some the other; many both.