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The Riverside Confession letter is headlined “THE CONFESSION”. Princeton University’s WordNet defines the word “confession” as:
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an admission of misdeeds or faults |
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a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party |
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(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution |
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a public declaration of your faith |
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the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century) |
At the Confession Letter’s top right, the author wrote “BY___________________”, without providing the name of the sender. The opinions of how many underscores have been typed vary from 13-19.
| In order to arrive at an own understanding of the correct count of typewriter strokes, we measured the underscore line against the following text of the Confession Letter and counted 19 strokes. |
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Please click on the image above to see the measurement.
The number of typewriter strokes may or may not stand for the number of characters of the name of the letter’s author.
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