VICAR HURTS PARENTS
A vicar's refusal to read the burial service caused a painful scene at (he funeral <>f -Millie UUtrids'e, aged Id, at Maidstone. When the funeral reached the cemetery the vicar, the Ivor. Lambert, of let. Michael's (Jhurch, (old the father of the dead girl that he had learned that she had not been baptised. In consequence be could not have her brought inlo the cemetery church, neither could he rend tjie. i’ruyerbook service. His action was hotly condemned by tile women mourners, who described the vicar’s action ns “unchristian.'’ In the end the service was conducted ov n license ln.v-reuder, and employee of 'the undertaker. -Mr Kldridge says the.l the viear offered to read the service used in (he ca-e if a suicide, but this Hr I amber! denies, nointm-' out that the instructions quite clear that relative- of a umi-bapti-ctl person car not demand i hurch service
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12161, 11 June 1925, Page 4
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151VICAR HURTS PARENTS New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12161, 11 June 1925, Page 4
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