Tus squabbling that goes on occasion. ally in this place among certain religious coumunious over dead Ladies is nothing less than ghoulish, It is not 80. very long ago that the members of a certain rabid sect possessed themselves of the remains of a person who detested them and all their works, and insisted upon holding a service over him in the cemetery. The other day n gentleman died suddenly from the effects of an accident, and again an unseemly contest arose about the right of burying him—a con. test quila as unseemly, and not nearly 80 august, as that mysterious quarrel which is suid to have taken place between Michael and Lucifer with refer. ence to the body of Moses. The incumbent of Trinity Cathedral, on being requested to conduct the faneral service over the remains, acceded, and very properly declined to relinquish the duty on the rude demand of another person who had no right to interfere in the affair at all, It is well-known that the gentleman who was the innocent cause of the indecent exhibition was by no means an ardent supporter of the sect who claimed him as their own, and that Inttorly ho had been a not into quent attendant at the Cathedral services. It is true, however, tht he had formally relinquished the Church, and sconce of the incumbent to bury him according to the rites of the Church he had forsaken is therefore greatly to the credit of that gentle~ man for charity, The threat that his assailant would oppose bim in anything he might do hereafter had no more effect upon the clergyman than the insolent promise that the former would support him and help him in every way if he would only withdraw from his position: a promise which, we believe, was mot by a quiet recommendation that the visitor should keep his offers of support until they were applied for. There are some persons whose support and praise are in themselves discreditable, There are those by whom most people would very much prefer lo be blamed and slandered
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