ANGLICAN CHURCH AMD CREMATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 9

ANGLICAN CHURCH AMD CREMATION.

TEE BURIAL/SERVICE. The Rev. E. G. Wood, in presenting to ' the meeting of the Anglican House of ■ Laymen, at Church House, Westminster, on July ft, the. report of the committee' ■ ■ on a form of service to bo used at cremation, said tho first question to be. .settled' : was whether the service sliouid be used ■ before the body was burnrd or over tho 1 residuum. The conclusion the commit- ' tee had arrived at was that the servico J should be before and in immediate cou- ' ncction with tho committal of the body '• to tho furnace. Tho words "Ashes to 1 ashes, dust to dust" were inapplicable. • as they were in tho committal of a body ' to tho sea, and they suggested the words | should be: "We commit this body to tho lire to be dissolved." The residuum, ho pointed out, consisted of a little chlorido of iron and A iittlo phosphate of calcium, and was not representative of humanit,v. Therefore it was not a proper subject for the recitation of a Ohristinr.i service. Jlr. Wood mentioned the caso of a lady who carried the ashes of her de- * ceased husband about with her wherever ' she wont, until she left them iu the cloak room at a station, and they were carried j away in mistake for a parcel of workP men's tools. Canon Brasley Hemson moved that the ashes should bo taken to ~ represent the body, and tho words of committal used as tlicy were lowered into t tho ground; and this was carried.