Show BURIAL CUSTOMS ANCIENT AND MODERN IN an article relating to the disposition of the dead the san francisco Francl sea chronicle gives given some gome interesting particulars tied tic ulars lars cremation and burial were practiced at the earliest epochs but it is thought burial first prevailed and then cremation came in through superstitious ious modes of worship the egyptians embalmed embalm ed their dead elih with costly formalities the ethiopians placed the corpse in a blabs column where it remained for st a year after which the remains were buried outside the city the parthiana Part Parth hians lans buried their dead in the vicinity of heaps of manure the syrians assyrians As put the remains in honey as a means of preservation the persians left their dead to be torn by dogs and birds before burial the hians before burying the body during forty days carried it about in a cart to the dwellings of all persons who had bad known the deceased the german tribes before the introduction Int ol of christianity among them burned their dead I 1 the hebrews treated their dead with more respect than any ancient people caves as an burial places were preferred to inhumation cremation among them implied more or less of dishonor when they came to live in large cities thedeas the dead were buried in cemeteries outside the city walls the greeks prow practiced practised hoed burial and cremation the romans at ac first burned their dead but later on cremation cams cama to be the prevailing custom it was carried out with ceremonies of the most solemn and formal character part of the proceeding is still observed in the burial service of the roman catholic church though cremation has haa long since fallen into disuse the parsees parsecs of india still expose the bodies bod lea of their dead to be devoured by birds of prey the english have succeeded in depriving the burning of the dead in hindostan hindustan Hind of most of its horrors cremation is coming into favor with the modern world both in europe and america the roman catholics and protestants are opposed to cremation the latter however are not eo 60 firmly set on the matter as the former the catholic priests private absolutely refuse to officiate clate at ceremony the jews are still guided by their rabbis babbie in the matter and therefore do not accept capt the modern innovations whether therit it be through tradition or education or both people who have baye been trained in the christian faith have a repugnance to the burning of their bodies after death the mor imor mono as they are commonly called prefer the natural method of dissolution the vio violence lonce of fire seems like deso ec ratton eor atlon of the human form while the placing of the sleeping body in its bed of earth to crumble slowly back to the dust from whence it came recommends itself to their minds and does no indignity to their faith or their senti sentiments mente As to the resurrect resurrection lop it matters not what may be done with the organism from which life has de departed Darted the elements are at the coan anti and of him who fashioned them into form to every seed will come his bis own body whether it has been burned buried or drowned in the deep but cremation smacks of the barbarous and shocks shock the sensitive feelings of mourning friends and is certainly butof natures nature s course with the organized elements element ft that have served a grand purpose in the changing scenes of life |