Cemetery burial, or Sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner, a director of the Hull General Cemetery Company.

  • Milner, George (Director of the Hull General Cemetery Company)
Date:
1847
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Credit: Cemetery burial, or Sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner, a director of the Hull General Cemetery Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    The apolopy whiHi the author offers for the pnblicntion of the presait work, is an earnMt de»ire that tl>e subject nii<<lit be brouftht before the public, and the attention of the philanthropic and Ijenevolent calle<l to our present mode of interment in crowded and up-heaj>ed burial places, which cannot fail to have a most injuriotis effect, both upon the health and the morals of the people. The early usages of the Church were opposed to inter- ment within God’s Holy 'I'emple—only the rt^lics of Apostles and Martyrs could be dejwsited within the walls of Sacre<l Ibiildings, and such a profanation as indiscriminate interment was never even thought of. “The Empe^ror Constantine, to whom the Church was so much indeljted, a.sked no higher favour than to be buried under the portico of the C'hurch of the Holy .V])ostle.” These concessions, like all others, have gradually led from less to more; until our Consecrated Buildings have now be<-oine a receptacle for the bodies of all, no matter whether “brought down in their journey’’ by vice and crime ; no matt(T whether scoffers at our Holy Religion, or humble followers of ('hrist; each and every one may now- have their bones tleposited beneath the sacred roof—no provision is made to prevent it, no exception, generally 8{)cakuig, can be taken. It is much to be regretted that our Con«ecTat«‘d and 8acrcd Buildings, set apart for the pure worship of God, should be thus profaned by the gencml admi-ssion of the dead. VV*c cannot too highly reprobate the custom of bringing within the Holy pm-inets the remains of the notoriously vicious and abandoned. B