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Show 1IDIIIAL UMOWS ISlitAT St MODI ItV. In an article relating to thedltpoil-lion thedltpoil-lion of the dead, tho Han P'rancl--o CAronfa'tiglvoi eomo lctcretlng par-tlculaia. par-tlculaia. Cremation aud burial wire piactlced at the etrllett epoch, but It la thought burial lint prevailed, and then cremation came InthroUjh Ur-atltlou Ur-atltlou molei of worhli. Tho r.;yptlnu embalmed their dead with coitly forrutlltlea. Tho Klhlo-I Klhlo-I lam place! the core In a glaia column, where It remained for a year, after which tho remain wire burled outilda the city. 1 he rarthlani lurlo.1 their dead In the vicinity of heapt of manure. The Atyrlam put the remain re-main In honey at a itivantof priter-ration. priter-ration. The I'eralan led tliclnleal to be torn by Uoga and blrdt Uforo burial. The Hcylhlaut before burying the bod)', during forty daji carrle.1 It about lu a cart to tho dwelling of all iteraona who had known thudtccaied. ThoOorman trlbet heloro Iho lntrluc-tlon lntrluc-tlon of Chrlitlanlty among thtm burned Ihelr diil. The Hebrewt treato I Ihelr ded with more rriecl than any nnolent poojde. Cavt at burial placet were t referred to Inhumation. Cremation among them Implied more or let of dlthonor. When they came lo live In Urge cltle, thndend were hurle-t In ceaieterlit oultlde the city wall. TheQieekt praitiw-U, lurlal and ere-nutlon. ere-nutlon. The llonum at llrtt burned their deal, but liter on cremation came to be the revtlllng citatum. It wat carried out with c-remonlci of the moit aolemn and format character. Part of the proceeding It ttlll obierved In the Inula! tervlcv of the Koman Catholic church, though crunalloii hu long it nco fallen Ititodlaute. Tho I'arrrtt of India, allll. ipo.e the bodlia of Ihelr dead to be devoured by bird of pre). The Knglith luve uc-reeded uc-reeded In depriving the turning of the dead In I Ilndofctau of moat of Itt horror. Cttmatloult coming Into favor with the modern world, both lu Europe au I America. The lloniau Calholloi and l'roteatanta are npMaed to cremation, tho latter, however, are not ( tlrmly pet on the matter at the former. The Catholic prleeta abolutely rtfuie to ofliclate at n cremation cerimouy. The Jewt aro ktlll guided by their Ilabblt lu tho matter, and therufore do not i cvi t the modern lunovallom. Whether It be through Iralltlon or education, or both, people who have Urn trained In tho Chrlatlan faith havea repti;uanco to the burning of their bodlet alter dttth. The "Mormon," "Mor-mon," at they are iominouly called, pefertbo natural method cfdluolu-tlon. cfdluolu-tlon. The violence of 11 re eeenitllke.de-ecratlon eeenitllke.de-ecratlon of the human form, w hlle the I lacing of thotlreplng body In lit bed of earth, (o crumble tlowly back to tho duit from whence It came, rrcom-nieudl rrcom-nieudl Itaelf to Ihelr mlndt aud doea no Indignity to Ihtlr faith or thilr enllmenlt. At to the nturrectlon, II matter not what may budone with tho organltm from which lire hat departed. The elonienlt are at thecomuand of Him who fnhloned them .Into form. To every tied will come hit own liody whether It hat Won Lurneil, burled, or drownttl lu tho drtp. Hut cremation imacka of the Uilarout aud thockt tho teuiltlve frellnge of mourning frltnde, and It certainly out of nature' coiimo with tho urgonlied ehmente that havo terved n grind turpoto In the changing term a of life. |