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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 30, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 5.

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Sunday Funerals

IN RESOLUTIONS ALLEGING THAT "SUNDAY FUNERALS require much work on the Lord's Day on the part of the cemeteries and liverymen, and claim a large part of the day that should be their own for other uses, and also tax the strength of clergymen on a day already fully occupied with regular services," the ministers' association of Utica, N. Y., on October 29, expressed its "disapproval of holding funerals on Sunday on all ordinary occasions," and declared it to be its judgment that "when it seems necessary that a funeral should be held on Sunday, it should be private, not a church service."