CREMATION.
"Ono of the topics on which idle holiday-makers are discoursing in the newspapers this season is the subject of cremation," says the Church Times, which is against cremation. "So far it lias been discussed by two sets of correspondents —tliose who are interested in the question of the superiority of cremation over burial, both for sanitary reasons and on the ground that ft double certificate of death is required By special regulations; and tliose who imagine that, in some way, the doctrine of the Resurrection is affected by the practice of cremation. It ought to be obvious that either process —cremation or burial —involves the disintegration of the particles of the body, and the only difference is that the one is a rapid process and the other a slow one, varying in the degree of its length. Clearly, the resurrection of the body is not affected by the length or shortness of the time, in which it was dissolved, and it ought to be selfevident that, if the Christian belief in the Resurrection would be shattered by the revival of this ancient mode of disposing of our dead, there would be no hope for those wjio had been burnt to death, unless, in their case, there were some special intervention of Providence."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10137, 7 November 1910, Page 4
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213CREMATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10137, 7 November 1910, Page 4
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