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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 3a

Burial Service

Burial Service.

It would be well if some private friend of the deceased read a burial service (determined by Parliament) at the grave side; but no clergyman should be allowed to officiate until the present sectarianism is abandoned. When once the rule of God is accepted we need not be divided after death, and it does not matter who reads the service, providing he is a reputable person, such as an army, navy or marine officer, Unitarian minister, Worshipful Master in the Masonic Craft, or any J,P. It will tend to uplift humanity for each citizen ro take his turn in reading such a service, seeing that it will remind him of his own brief span of life. But death now is robed in too much sorrow—oftentimes death is a blessing.