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Show Cremalon. On May 19, 1886, a decree was published pub-lished at Rome forbidding Catholics from making use. of cremation in the disposal of their Christian dead. This is after all only in keeping with the most spontaneous of Christian instincts. in-stincts. For to one who possesses the faith, the body is really a sacred thing. It is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the medium of supernatural supernat-ural graces. It Is the medium also through which the sacraments act upon up-on the soul. In the body also even though cold and stiff in death we recognize no ordinary lifeless thing; It shall yet be aroused to renewed action; ac-tion; in death It but sleeps to awaken again with renewed vigor and undiminished undi-minished strength. The human body possesses a nature and a destiny unlike un-like anything else. It Is no common' clay no ordinary vessel which had served Its purpose and deserves only to be flung aside. |