“The resurrection of the body from its ashes is not a greater miracle than the resurrection of an unburnt body. Each must be purely miraculous. Faith in the resurrection would have been as clear and strong if the Jews had burnt their dead, as it is when, as a matter of fact, they buried them.” Dr. Le Moyne says:— “Some religionists object to cremation because it might possibly throw obstacles in God’s way of collecting the particles which once formed the body. They seem to forget that the dispersion of the atoms which compose the human body is just as wide and perfect by inhumation as by cremation.” Napoleon I., the Great, was a firm believer in cremation. On Dec. 14, 1816, five years before his death, he conversed freely with his surgeon, Barry O’Meara, on various topics. Mr. O’Meara (“Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena.” By Barry E. O’Meara. W. Gowans, New York, 1853, Vol. I. p. 277) says:— “He afterwards spoke about funeral rites, and added, that when he died, he would wish that his body might be burned. ‘It is the best mode,’ said he, ‘as then the corpse does not produce any inconvenience; and _as to the resurrection, that must be accomplished by a miracle, and it is easy to the Being who has it in his power to perform such a miracle as bringing the remains of the bodies together, to also form again the ashes of the dead_.’” During another talk with his medical adviser the ex-emperor said, “that he had ordered the slain burnt after the battle at Wagram.” I clip the following from the _Medical Herald_, and commend it to the notice of opposers of cremation on the ground of religion:— “The most prejudiced religionist cannot offer one valid objection, for if God is to call up the scattered remains of the dead from both land and sea on the day of final resurrection, the ashes shall be as easily resolved from the urn as from the débris of a building in which bodies may have been accidentally consumed by fire.” I should like to see the Christian who believes that God will not take unto himself the soul of the brave fireman, who rushes courageously into a burning building to rescue his fellow-beings, and has the misfortune to fall and perish in the flames, while an indolent crowd is looking on below. Nay, nay! I believe that he will be twice as welcome in the kingdom of heaven. At the opening of the Bolton cemetery in 1874, Bishop Fraser combated the anti-cremation movement, based upon the doctrine of the resurrection, with the sequent vigorous language:—