Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-10-23
M. D. Conway in Cincinnati CONNER


In London city, included in an area thi
may De trayersed in one hour, is the battl
heii upon which the great conflicts of rel
giods and civil liberty were fought and wol
ana where Its monuments now stand, bl
the Americans meet in London seem gene
ally to think that they have done our inetr,
Polls sufficiently when they have visited Wes
Minister abbey, St. Paul's and the museum.
yesterday. IN company Of some Hicksit
QuakerS from Maryland and some Unita
riens from Cincinnati | made a little nj
srmage through thet part of London
which | refer. In the Guildhall we sa,
Uo5 and Magog. whose gigantic form
and harharic costumes carried US back to til
primitive paglnism of England, They stan
hard hy the old temple Of Diana whic
was turned into the Christian church whic
W ren converted into the cathedral of 81
Paul's.
y few steps more and we stand on the spo
in Smithfeld where the martyrs Of conscience
were burned,-a spot long used by the athe
Isis and infdels for their open-air meetings
but now covered by the finest meat marke
In London. We pass thence bv the house
now being demolished, where John Milton
was born, through the street were he wrot,
Paradise Lost and sold il to a publisher f,i
fine pounds, and on TO Crosby hall. one o.
tie finest mansions in London. Here wt
have the best preserved relic of mediaya
England the house repeatedly mentioned
by Shakespeare (~ee Richard III) the
house where Queen Elizabeth was entertain
ed by the lord mayor of London: the house
where Erasmus visited Sir Thomas More. ol
whose home he gave such "a TaradiSaical ric-
ture- Thence cur pilgrim path leads us to
the smart Meslyan chapel ia the city road.
IN front Of which i the tomb OF the mother
Of the We>leyS, and behind it tie monument
which rises above the dust OF John Wesley
himself.
We have only TO cross tie street to enter
Bdnhiil (BJneAil) Fields cemetery, where
the bones of many Cromwe!ian and other
reyOlutioni,ts and reiormers have found a re-
/ pose which the commercial progress of the
/ city has long bat yaiulv tried % invade
/ Ile huge factories and warehouses wall in
/ these two consecateI acres. and millions
have been offered for the privilege Of build
/ ing over them; bat the yenerati0n of nom
conf,rmi-t England for this sacred dust /,
too strong for the >hlp-keering interest. and
it viii be many day before the dust Of
Richard and Henry Cromwell Isaac Watts.
Daniel DeToe and John Blnyan is disturbed.
Here the two tomb, which are first sought
out are those of the authors of the pilgrim
Progre~-' and " Robinson Craslc." The
greaturS' Of each Is described by the simple
inscriptions, which with the dates Of bir;h
and death say one that he who rests be-
meath was author Of the " Pilgrims Prog
res, the other that he was tie author 0f
" Robinson CruS9e.' For tie rest it must
be stated tha, though tie sh0r-keeping III
terest has not ayailed 20 overrun Buuhi.l
Fields with shops. il ha, been strong enough
t. mar both Of these two most interesting
tomb- which the cemetery contains The
Inscription on the m1ulmen, OF DeFoe. while
stating that it was erected by the c1nubl-
tious Of uinteen Thousand English boys and
giris, Is careful 10 add that ttis was In re-
>pon>e 10 an appeal IN the Christian Word
newspaper; the tomb of Bunysn alverii~e-
equally the nobility By informing us that the
the committee which repaired il was under
the presidency oi Lord SALISBURY.
But the most impressive grave that We
visited was that Of George Fox. founder Of
the society of Friends Passing down Cole
man street. We turn aside into what auuear.
to be simple square covered with green
swarj. and about an acre AID half In ez-
tent No mound even Is seen. and Vet every
sod covers the dead In America. believe.
the Quakers. while eschewing grave-s-one-. 1
at least leave little mound Of earth over
their dead. but here the ground is alto-ather .
and the graveyard is simply a
Lawn. But one exception is made in all the .
Quaker buria.-gro1ud- Of the country. Near .
the center of this one j. q small plain slab .
on which are the words " George Fox: /
born 18Th day Of the eleventh month, 1921
Died 1000" When we consider the tower
ing monuments we have passed. the columns
raised to soldiers aud sailors great and small, /
to saints ike George H., and ~laycr- Ike
the dake Of Wellington, this little solitary
stone, about foot high, marking the spot
where great religious geni1us was laid t.
rest, i exceptionally sublime One end Of
the ground If occupied by large tent H. /
which tie Quaker- are now holding nightly
meetings for preaching the G0Srsl. -" On .