God's acre beautiful, or, The cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson.

  • William Robinson
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: God's acre beautiful, or, The cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BURIALS IN AND AROUND CHURCHES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS MIGHT BE PRACTISED TO ANY EXTENT. In connection with this part of the subject, it may be well to consider the opportunities which urn-burial would afford for depositing the inoffensive remains of the dead in our churches—old and new. It would have the great advantage of permit- ting burials to be carried out in churches and city graveyards to any extent, and for any number of years. For various rea- sons, many persons would prefer burial in churches or near them; but, as is well- known, the evils of the present system of burial became so horrible and so evidently dangerous in the case of city graveyards and churches, that burial within cities had to be forbidden by law, and not too soon. The