THE RIGHTS OF NONCONFORMISTS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From the letter which you publish in your issue of September 15th, from the Rev. Alexander Maim, I think he has been unfortunate in having to deal with a cemetery con- ducted on non-Christian lines. They are not all the same. Let me give my experience. I am a member of the Church of Scotland, and while living in London had the misfortune to lose a child. I wished the interment to take place in a certain attractive suburban cemetery. I was told it was not usual for Nonconformists to be buried in the consecrated ground. I replied that I looked upon the Church of England as primus inter pares with my own Church, and that I had no objection to my child lying in consecrated ground with members of the Church of England. No further objection was raised. The funeral service was conducted by the leading clergymen of the Church of Scotland in London, and the child rests in peace where his parents wished him to be. In this case, at all events, Christianity came before sectarianism.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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