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    * £ ft wfeeUisfoneat m ^ parish schools , in evwy parish throughout the empire 5 blu excellent design , but requiring- great cantkm , » nd to be watched by Dissenters with « Ti ^ ilatit eye , lest it should become against them a most powerful and injurious

    anstrumem . Some miscellaneous cases of considerable interest he could not *> mit . l ^ ire tslerk of the peace for the county -of Rutland had refused to register a notice « fa place of worship in that county , left 4 » y th « e Rev . 'Mr . Corbishley . The

    magis-~ tmtes bad conceived that they possessed some discretionary Jower ; and did -not know that they had only a ministerial ditty to perform . The right of registration had been maintained and asserted with success ,

    and the result is important , principally as it -demonstrates the necessity of firmness and decision , and teaches not to suspend on the brittle thread -of favour and indulgence , these rights vrhifch should be upheld by an Adamantine chain .

    „ Ijetters from jBlhmdy near Halifax , complain that the minister of the parishliad jtftantoted to prevent a mason from cutting ^ frare ^ stones in tbe oburch-yard , because he m * & a Dissenter . Thus substituting -power for persuasion , « nd persecution for awgpnment . ( Applause . J

    The case of Mrs . Gould was affecting-. Her husband had long been deacon of a -Baptist congregation near Bray ford , in Devonshire Nothing was more natural OT ^ nore innocent than for this poor woman , 'in the language of unconrtly truth and

    ^ pioas sensibility , after she had wept over the remains of her beloved companion , to state on -the -grave-stone " how the good man had lived , and how he died . " This , however , offended the parochial clergyman , 'who determined that the tombstone should be removed , ffe admitted that the

    JDmenter had a rig-ht to be buried in the ^ jburcb-yard , and that the sexton had re-

    • Atftfg'lit to obtain a wretched triumph over * m « gied * and unhappy -widow ! Trut » , he -might thus increase * ber "pangs and add to her enp of ftorrow , -already overflowing . # ie might prematurely demolish a mrniuwent which H * e hxrtd of time -would <

    ibK-* # rarte or d <« troy ; but fie could not touch H&m irtfcrtptian ^ t ^ tten 1 * y tlie ^ finger of the < ttrc 3 Angel in the book of life , nor cloud the If lory that in atocttfrer state Whail radiate « rctmd the memory of the jnvt-. C ^ Pptowte . )

    Proa * < Cerfe Vcnttle Mr . £ mfth comfpWtf ^ d , tfiatlhe Uev . * Mr . Clareil , a - dlertrym « n «^ Tt m ^ i ^<> / had ^ fm ^ a to bnry ibe cWld - « rf a ' Rwwrter , 4 Tbe 'mretit was

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    a labotiior—the rector opulent and jrow erful . The Committee interfered : nor did they interfere in vain . The poor ]> is genters blend astonishment with jay , when they learn that the same justice is obtained for them in the lowly cottage , as for the turretted castle which frowns over ike vale . They take courage as they bless the Society , and are g * rateful to their

    t 3 od . t 5 od . But why , he mustag-aiu inquire , did a body . so respectable and so enlightened as the Dissenters of England , submit to these insults from clergymen ? Why , by seeking interment exclusively in a chitrch-yard , connect themselves with an establishment ,

    which they professed to disapprove ! What was a chuich-yard to merit particular respect ? ( Applause . ) Papal superstition bad bestowed on it an interested sanctity , iinsaoctioned by reason , but which imagination and poetry had combined to adorn . ( Applause . ) In former times people col

    lected themselves round the Church , because they hoped to be relieved from purgatory by the prayers of the faith foil attending at the Church . ( Laughter . ) Be no longer fettered by such absurdities ( Applause . ) Let gardens surround om meeting-houses , and there let our ashes

    slumber till the resurrection of the just . ( Applause . ) If the poor posthumous renown be sought , which -brass and marble can bestow , what can be more delightful to the father , than to know , that the inscription shall be fixed on the walls of the

    meeting-house where be and his family throughout their lives have worshiped God * ( Applause . ) What more grateful to the children , as they bend their knees in the house of prayer , than to bare the memorial of their father in their devoutest

    moments present to their eye . Thus death would lose somewhat of its terror—families yet would-be united —~ kind red 'would survive , still living in the hearts and thoughts of those by whom they were best ibeloved . ( Cheers )

    « ut even to the meeting bouse extortion wiU pursue us . The Rev . Mr . Breieer , of Birmingham , had been there interred-The * opnlent reotorof that vast town would nriot lose his profit , and "demanded 'ten shillings a « * a mortuary fee . ^ Explanations were yeqoired , 'and the 'demand was forgotten . But no ! such forgetfu ^ nessw not

    allowed : » for , after nestt two year * , •» € Rev . 'Mr . Cnrtis has actuttlly tenewed * is demand . During the present « w © ek , *« •( Mr . W . ) had received a letter , > staWg tbat this clergynMin ,-opwlent and elevated , % es * per » oiiaHy called on a frietfd-of •*!>* * widow-of Mr / Brew-er , and insisted ' < m tip nmrtntit . { ¥ H $$ e 9 and criee'Qftihame . ) fie 4 ia not 'wot * l « r at this mf ^ emm ^ F indignation and eotitewfit 5 ^« l **

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    394 Jt * ttiii gM ^*~ Pt * ot {! Stnnt Society .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/54/