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Extravagant Funeral Display Criticized as Fashion and Folly

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 4.

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Extravagant Funeral Display Criticized as Fashion and Folly

At a recent New York funeral, where the deceased was a young and beautiful girl, over $3,000 worth of flowers were distributed in and around the coffin. A chorus was sung by hired vocalists. On either side of the coffin stood four young girls dressed in white, each holding in her hand a wreath of flowers. While the minister prayed, a bell was tolled in the hall-way, and a chant sung by the hired vocalists. The lady friends of the deceased thought the entertainment “perfectly elegant.” Fashion and folly are courted in the very presence of death!