AS IT SHOULD BE.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 135, 26 July 1876, Page 3

AS IT SHOULD BE.

A okiiemony which recently took place iu Westminster Abbey was unique of its kind, we (“ Daily News”) may say unprecedented in the history ot that of any similarodclesiastical edifice. Dean Stanley unveiled the tablet which has been erected to the memory of John and Charles Wesley, and which, besides containing excellent-medallion likenesses of those illustrious worthies, will transmit ■ .10 posterity.'the sculptured figures of many of their ancestors. If the occasion was a remarkable one, the spirit which characterised the proceedings was equally 'worthy'-of-cordial recognition. The Dean, 111 bis address to the Charter • House, vspoko; of the' Wesleys L as men , whom it was a privilege for lire .Church, of England to,honor, and ho expressed a hope, Which -wo wish-it wore possible to regard as-entirely well founded-—that no member of that' church would question the claim'of the founders of Methodism to a memorial in the venerable abbey. Such remarks, delivered in the presence ■ / ofseveral hundreds of Wesleyan ministers laymen, including the president and several, ex-presidents, of theconference, cannot fail to meet'with a cordial rcspouse among all classes of the English people. The ceremony had a pathetic . side which will also awaken a feeling of general sympathy.. . If. death had not • interposed, the memorial would have been uncovered by Lady Augusta Stanley, who' recommended that the tablet should be placed in the closer neighbourhood 1 of ’Di* Isaac Watts’ monument. The dean, in ‘touching language, referred to the interest which she took,in the'proposal to do honor to- ■ the memory of John and Charles Wesley, and in the name of John and diaries Wesley*-and in the Uame of the Methodists of England, the-President of the Conference'‘ paid; a tribute- to her sympathy with the catholic spirit of her husband. ‘ l ’