There is no relation between cremation and religion. They are independent of each other. No passage in the Holy Bible prohibits incineration. The Christian religion does not oppose it, nor does the Jewish, as I learnt from an article in the _Jewish Chronicle_. Some newspapers seem to think that cremation is contrary to the Jewish doctrines. Our brethren at Gibraltar and in the north of Africa bury their dead in quicklime. No one can deny the orthodoxy of the Jews on the shores of the Mediterranean, yet more than once have some of their number been disposed of in the manner related above; the method being carried out but lately at Mile-end. Among the Jews at London, instances of cremation are not unknown. A Swiss clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Lange, declares that our Saviour never spoke a single word in condemnation of incineration. Dr. Altherr, _Religious Journal for the People_ (No. 11, 1874), also entertains the same opinion. An English Catholic pointed out that cremation would once more enable us to bury our dead in the churches, not only in the crypts of the sacred edifices, but also along the sides of the body of the churches. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher had a word to say about cremation in a recent sermon of his. He thought that the universal Christian teaching of the resurrection of the body would prevent any general acceptance of it while that teaching prevails. Of course, a man of a “classical” education cannot reject incineration altogether, especially when he considers it from a hygienic point of view. I have always been of the opinion that a great many clergymen fear to state their real views concerning cremation, lest their congregation might discharge them and engage the services of some other theologian; and I still have the same impression. The so-called religious objection to cremation is wholly unsound, as even a great many anti-cremationists admit; it is therefore not surprising that “religious” opposition is fast weakening and waning wherever it has existed at all. A late writer in the _Church Review_ advises us to take care that incineration does not fall into infidel hands, and so become at last a symbol of irreligion.