Bigotry in Christian Burial
We recorded recently the death of Bigotry. Were we mistaken? The vicar of the living of Tetney, Lincolnshire, recently refused to have the bell tolled or to bury a little infant, aged six months, because, forsooth, the child had not been baptized. The villagers are very rightly incensed at this denial of Christian sepulture. The Nonconformist relates another singular case in which the vicar lost a child of his own which had not been baptized. On this account he bitterly mourned, and in his grief cried out that his child could have no rest, but is driving about in the air! “Verily,” says that paper, “if we are not living in pagan times, there are lots of persons who are filled with worse than pagan notions.”