THE CHURCH CONGRESS AND DISSENT.
[Y0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—May I say that though I feel sure you desire to be strictly fair, you are scarcely so to those who object to throw open the Churchyards to Nonconformist services ? You speak of "the territory of the national Churchyards," from which Nonconformist services are excluded. Are you aware that in all modern trust- deeds giving over land to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for burial purposes, it is expressly stated that the land transferred is for the service of the Church of England ? I myself gave land three years ago under this condition-1 would gladly give land for Nonconformist burials, if Nonconformists wished it—but to charge those with narrowness who, having given their land on trust, object to a violation of the trust, is much as if they were called names for giving a house to be used for a cottage hospital, and objected to its being turned into a museum for local antiquities.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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