The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-20

Cal:
am in hearty sympathy with your
enterprise. | believe incarceration TO
be the ideal and future method of dis
posing of the sacred mortal remains
OF our dead, and that it is preferable
10 earth-burial upon sanitary, aesthe-
tic and religious grounds. When an
unreasonable and superstitious preju-
dice shall have been outgrown, there
VIII be no more earth-burialS in the
enyirons of populous cities.
Prof. Joseph LeConte. of University
of California:
Il cannot fer a moment doubt that
Cremation is 10y far the most rational
mode Of disposal of our dead. I am
sure l would prefer such disposal for
myself
David Starr Jordan. President Lee
land Stanford Junior University.
Palo Alto, California:
The practice of earth burial arose
with primitive man, who had all the
earth for his purposes, and had no idea
of the possible evil influences that
might arise from the decay of flesh
near the homes of men. This practice
became associated with the idea that
the body itself would be of some fur
Their use TO the soul, and this idea has
acquired a certain religious sanction.
The practice of cremation is in every
way preferable, and it becomes US
nationally, then, TO use our influence
towards its general use in the interest
of the living and in time the sacred
ness now attached to the grave as
repository Of decaying flesh, can be
transferred to the repository of the
ashes freed from the elements of
decay.
Rev VIM RAIDER, Pastor Third Con-
gregational Church, San Francisco,
CAL:
'The method of dispcsing of the
dead by means of cremation is based
upon sound principles of sanitation.
1t is a step in advance of the old GUS
tom of placing the body in the ground
and is not only a sanitary measure,
but is both convenient and expedient
1.-The magnificent Crematorium and
Columbarium at the Odd Fellows
Cemetery, satisfies every religious and
aesthetic sense, and is peculiarly fit
| ted for the orderly disposal of the
dead I believe the method will be-
come more and mere in vogue as popu-
| lation increases and people advance
| beyond the paganism Of the modern
funeral
The late Kate Field Washington, d.
c.:
q am a cremationilst, because l be-
| lieve cremation is not only the health
| lest and cleanest, but the most poetical
| way of diSpOSing of the dead. Who
ever prefers loathsome worms to ashes,
possesses a strange imagination"
| (Her body was cremated by the Odd
Fellows Cemetery Association, S. F..
1 ~ I1,n
sent East to be inferred at Mount
Auburn. The interment took place
January 10th, 1879
Rabbi Abram Simon, Congregation
| B'nai Israel, Sacramento, Cal:
! 81 have no hesitancy in declaring
that to my mind cremation will be the
future method of disposal of the dead.
| 1t is the necessary method; it is ra-
tional; it is expedient; it is desirable .
| The Right Rev. Phillips Brooks, z.
E., Bishop of Massachusetts, wrote:
| II believe that there are no true
| objections to the practice of Crema-
| ton and a good many excellent
reasons why it should become COM
mon.'
| Rev w. I. Kip. Jr., Cathedral Mis-
sion of the Good Samaritan, San Fran
| cisco, Cal:
81 am in sympathy with any move
ments which tends to the reform OF
| the means and manner of burials."
The late Chas. A. Dana, editor OF
| The Sun, New York City:
| 1T is my Judgment that Cremation
| is the most rational and appropriate
manner of disposing of the dead
| Prof Chas. Eliot Norton, of Harvard
! University:
THE arguments in support of Gre
nation are so strong, and those
against our present fashion of burial
are so conclusive, that | have little
question that, when they are fully pre-
scented to intelligent men and women
the development of a sentiment favor
able to Cremation will be rapid, and
the adoption of the practice, speedily
become familiar"
1.-The Rev. r. Heber Newton, D. D..
of New York:
81 am glad of an opportunity of ex-
pressing my interest in the work OF
| Cremation. For many years / have
thoroughly believed in cremation on
a variety of grounds. Having tried tC
make my life one of usefulness to my
fellows. I object to the possibility OF
injuring any one after / am dead. The
thought that what I cannot take
away with me to higher
form of life is to be left
as a means of poisoning life is abhor-
rent to me. l prefer that my body shall
| be so disposed of as to put this out
| of the question. The religious
objection has always been nonsensical
| to my mind. Believing thoroughly in
a life TO come, l have not the slightest
notion of that higher life being condi-
toned in any possible way by the
way in which we get into it. Moth
ing but the stupid prejudice of a blind
orthodoxy could allow any notion of
| this kind to have weight. In so far
as it does have weight, it ought to be
| exposed and ridiculed. [ have also,
| for years, had the intensest horror OF
thinking of any one dear to me under