An early Methodist tract titled "Immortality and Resurrection" noted that "burial is the result of a belief in the resurrection of the body, while cremation anticipates its annihilation." "The Methodist Review" noted that "Three thoughts alone would lead us to suppose that the early Christians would have special care for their dead, namely, the essential Jewish origin of the Church; the mode of burial of their founder; and the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, so powerfully urged by the apostles, and so mighty in its influence on the primitive Christians. From these considerations, the Roman custom of cremation would be most repulsive to the Christian mind."