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Churcli o £ e « g * aud in respect of Mortuary aud § ur ^ cp , Fe ^ i interment of Plssefttere in tfeein own brurial-grounds It wa « desiraWe that Dissenters should select ^ rtfc ^^ yjBSaia ^ e ^ ry town , some spot which thgy , wquld reader sacred by becoming the depositories of the ashes of
their ow » # ious , departed and lamented friends . ( J # m * 4 QPPhiu&e . ) He had hoped the time was passed away , when church * yards wer ^ , supposed to possess any peculiar properties ; and when , like their
forefather , they should tremble lest the devil might steal awray the bodies of the departed * unlessplaeed around the church . ( Loud appfame *); He thought the prejudices of the ninth , tenth and eleventh centuries should be indeed entombed .
Priestcraft and interest then taught , as in Ireland it was yet believed , that persons interred in certain burial-places among the Catholics , were as certain of protection from foul fiends , and of admission into heaven , as of arrival at Dublin , when they entered the mail-coach . ( Loud laughter . )
He thought it was time . that death should ]> e divested of its hideous draperies . To Christians , life and immortality were brought to light . Why render horrible the slumber of mortality—the resting-place of the grave ? Why ever connect with our departed friends the yew and the cypress , the damp vault and
charnel house ? Rather , said he , let us display the spirit of our religion , let a better practice be adopted . Near Paris is the cemetery of " Le Pere la chaise . " In a large and beautiful inclosure , each family has its little plot , in which rises the urn , or the hillock adorned with flowers . There bloom the first roses of
the spring , and there the last flowers of the autumn shed their fragrance . There the husband amidst the odours of the air sits and gazes , on the setting sun , and hopes for . ft better resurrection with her whose dust is covered with the green turf , and whose spirit is in heaven . { Loud Applause . )
But if this advice was sanctioned by nature and by piety , those who adopted the advice should be protected in * their rights . In n case at . Poniefraat , a Dfa * sentiijg burial ~ gro « ndfwa » provided ; ibut on the feat , ArrterfnB !> ty a , deooiand ^ d heen * uadtf , n ^ f / ofr ly fop ms * rt stai ^ bdt for : * yni i *^^ formed < v > ( J 5 fif ^^ H / l ^ ^ ei tet ^ ^*^ ^ ouui& . to-pa ^ tbVf ^ of 'ifr mw ^ fg ^^ mtme ^( \ U ^ wmiiWhsst ^ on ^ u t ^^ k i > f the th at * whfcfe . he iro « M <^
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if , for at lekst 200 years , there had not been a regular custom of demanding tbe mortuary fees ior every person krt&red out of the church-yard , or unless th « re was some specific Local Act of i ? arHa ** ettfc rendering such custom unnecessary , the payment might be resisted with sucoeas * ( Applause . ) ^ , i
Besides pecuniary claims , there w ^ e , however , some other claims equally ' improper to some of which he would alliftdet Rev . Mr . Churchioul , of Thames Ditton > received a notice from the clergyman of the parish * to put up a painted board
ioside his chapel , stating , that persons could not be married by Dissenting Ministers ( A laugh . ) The mandate of the clergyman he ventured to disobey , and he received an intimation , that he might have to sustain the wrath of an Archdeacon :
but he still ventured to disobey , and no penalty visited his disobedience . { Al laugh . ) On one point vexations had almost ceased ; the refusal to perform the service of the CJhurch over the bodies of Dissenters , because they had not been baptized according to the rites of that Established
Church . Only one case of refusal had occurred during the past year , when hid friend Mr . Pellatt transmitted to the clergyman at Thame , in Oafordshire , a copy of a decision by Sir John Nichol in favour of lay-baptism , and the clergyman had honourably promised , that no future obstruction should occur . ( Hear , hear . ) Connected with those matters , he had
before adverted ta the prejudices surviving among themselves , wefcds that should be rooted out and scattered by the winds . ( Applause . ) An application had been made by tfae Rev . Mr . CbX , tit Hadleigh ) as to a case combining male volence with real iinpotence . A little boy died in the town , whose name would long be memorable in their churcliei
He was a youth of eminent piety , and ah interesting account had been publj | hed by his minister . As he TOi ^ e # ^ l | p affecting narrative that beguiled him oT his tears , he thought , if ever angels hovering seemed to say , 4 f Sister Spirit ,
come awsiy , " it was wtien the spirit of that child rosb to the God who gave it . { Applause *} iWhm t that 4 hUd was tto jte interred i when with itite sorrows ^^ HH pious -itpar&M , the neighbour ^ m 1 n Ǥ their ^ sympathte fc M& % &X ( &-&i &&W& mentHtb ^ sisfewA ^ was 'ib <^ $ M Mlffi $ k
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IntiW&ence . T ^ rmstant Society t Mr : mitt * Speech . 435
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/55/
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