Word: revs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rev.) W. D. F. HUGHES...
...male passenger and the plane's steward were thrown clear as the tail cracked off; they were rescued. Among the 13 who died were two women and four children: another victim was a U.S. clergyman, the Rev. Dr. T. C. Hume, of the World Council of Churches...
...Said the Rev. Donald Selby Wright over BBC: "It is the fruit of a blasphemy of real love-lust...
...Said the Rev. Wilfrid R. Johnson of Truro: "People in these days 'pass away' or 'reach port.' They do not die. Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...
...Rev. Francis L. Hilditch of Rickmansworth asked that each case be judged on its own merits. He knew a woman who carried her daughter's ashes everywhere. Said he: "This kind of morbid, sentimental and neurotic reaction might be avoided if the Church insisted upon the burial of the ashes as her established and normal practice...