Related commentaries – Confession

Offering of First Fruits And Thanksgiving – Deuteronomy 26:1 – 26:19

Confession

In the washroom of his London club, British newspaper publisher and politician William Beverbrook happened to meet Edward Heath, then a youngmember of Parliament, about whom Beverbrook had printed an insulting editorial a few days earlier. “My dear chap,” said the publisher, embarrassed by the encounter. “I’ve been thinking it over, and I was wrong. Here and now, I wish to apologize.” “Very well,” grunted Heath. “But the next time, I wish you’d insult me in the washroom and apologize in your newspaper."  (Today in the Word, October 1, 1993)