Archbishop Tait, however, is not a Bishop of this class.
At the Diocesan Conference held on Tuesday at Canterbury, ho objected to the notion of imposing rates in order to furnish the Dissenters with fresh burial-grounds. The cry of " No surrender I" had generally ended in a complete surrender. lie was very anxious to give the fullest consideration to the Dissenters' views. He did not believe that if the Dissenters got into the Churchyard they would get into the Church, for means might be taken to prevent that. In Russia and Austria, Protestant ministers might perform the services in t' State burial-grounds, and it would never do to refuse a measure or liberty which Russia and Austria did not fear to grant. But the Archbishop convinced neither the pertinacious clergy nor the plus imam clerical laity of the Con- ference. Mr. Beresford Hope blurted out the remark that tithe real difficulty was not about the service, but about the man who was to read it in the churchyard." In other words, it was the schismatic ministers, not the sin of schism, that they wanted to keep at arm's-length, and the resolution carried was in favour of permitting serviceless burials of Dissenters in churchyards, and of increasing the number of cemeteries where they might have their
own services. In other words, " No surrender!" carried the day, in spite of the Archbishop, in spite of prudence, in spite of Christianity. When the national clergy are asked to go a mile with the Dissenters, instead of going twain with them, they go twain in a direction at right angles to their's.
