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    often overruled by the passion he has to bury his dead where his fathers and his fathers' fathers slumber ; but if he yields himself to the call either of affection or of necessity , he must pay the price of conformity . ' —p . 15 .

    One might have thought that the man who had strength enough to quit the church in which his forefathers prayed , would not have succumbed to the weakness of coveting ( at the expense of a conscientious scruple ) a place in the grave-yard where they moulder . And as to c necessity / arising from there being * no other place of interment / why the Saviour of the world could take

    his death-sleep in a garden , and why should Independent , Baptist , or Presbyterian , be more particular ? Pitiful enough is the provision for post-mortem sectarianism , by which the Church neither admits a dissenting pastor to bury his flock in consecrated ( i . e . episcopally-appropriated ) ground , nor allows the clergyman to perform the established service in unconsecrated ground ; but it would have been pleasanter for this grievance to have been

    outgrown by popular enlightenment , than for the superstition which makes it of such factitious importance , to be kept up by legislation , and perhaps prove a diversion from weightier matters . If churchmen , or any other sectarians , will be exclusive in the grave , and corrupt together without heretical contamination , they have a right to do so ; provided always , that they honestly purchase the ground , and tax only themselves for what they do with it or in it . It is the absence of this condition that is the real

    grievance . The internal regulations of the Church , its exclusions from earth or heaven , only concern its members . 4 . The exclusion of Dissenters from the Universities . This exclusion is a notable specimen of the manner in which the Established Church has discharged its trust , and employed the funds which were forfeited by the Catholic hierarchy .

    Conformity , or no honours , at Cambridge ; conformity , or no entrance , at Oxford ; such is the very modest and useful account to be rendered of its stewardship . Reader , has Mr . Beverley ' s pamphlet on the University of Cambridge fallen in your way ? If not , pray read it . See what a sink of iniquity has been made of a fountain of knowledge , by the filthy trampling therein of clerical hoofs . And notwithstanding the disgusting abominations there unveiled , probably greater are behind . The best defence of the system is , that it destroys any evil , intellectual , or moral , in the exclusion ;

    and even transforms it into the character of a privilege . The minor offence against Dissenters is made a kindness by the major offence against the public . 5 . Dissenters f are compelled to contribute towards a Church from which they have withdrawn , and from which they derive no benefit * This injury is plain and strong . The complaint is based on a distinct and comprehensive principle . From the instant that we

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    66 . Case of the Dissenters .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/68/