What Happens After Death? | by Leading Writers and Thinkers
A Symposium by Leading Writers and Thinkers. "What happens after death?" is the most personal question there is, and this symposium from some of the most thoughtful and influential men of the day should add light to what is, perhaps, the greatest problem of all ages and the most vital. Opinions vary greatly, as the following titles show.
| Title | What Happens After Death? |
| Author | Misc |
| Publisher | Funk & Wagnalls Company |
| Year | 1916 |
| Copyright | 1916, Funk & Wagnalls Company |
| Amazon | After This Life: What Catholics Believe About What Happens Next |
Foreword- What happens after death? is, of course, the most painfully personal question there is. A great many matters of controversy may interest us without vitally concerning us individually, but, after all...
- Do We Cease To Live At Death?
- By the Rev. R. F. HORTON, M.A., D.D. Do we cease to live at death? Naturally if we cease to live when we die, there can be no effective argument or evidence to show that we should live again in t...
- Shall We Live Again?
- By the Rev. A. J. WALDRON This is the eternal question, as old as death. It is, and ever will be, the problem of religion, science, and philosophy. The borderland between the living and the not ...
- After Death-What?
- By T. CLAYE SHAW, M.D., F.R.C.P. It is pure speculation to indulge in ideas and statements on this subject. Neither the Archbishops nor the Pope can tell us anything more than we know ourselves, an...
- Our Change Of Immortality
- By the late Monsignor ROBERT HUGH BENSON On purely natural grounds - apart, that is to say, from the revelation that God has made to man on the subject - perhaps the strongest argument for the immo...
- The Familiar Unknown
- By A. P. SINNETT, the well-known Occultist To everyone who may, like myself, have been for half a long lifetime in familiar touch with those conditions of human life lying beyond the change commonl...
- My Belief
- By ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER, the well-known Authoress My belief as to the future state is summed up in the last verse of Richard Baxter's perfect hymn: My knowledge of that life is small, The ...
- The Undying Soul
- By the Rev. A. G. DIXON, B.A., D.D. (of the Metropolitan Tabernacle) Does the invisible part of man continue to exist after the visible part has turned to dust? Every man is his body plus something...
- The Misbeliefs Of Religion
- By Sir HIRAM S. MAXIM, C.E., M.E. There is not one little particle of evidence to show that we live after we die, in the sense that preachers would have us believe. Mankind, like all other anima...
- Death Is Not The End!
- By Sir ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B., B.A., LL.D. The nearer I approach death I seem to gain a glimpse of the shore and to be, at last, about to sail into harbour after a long voyage. Such was the reve...
- No One Comes Back To Tell
- By JOHN BLOUNDELLE-BURTON The answer to the question is impossible. To state, however, what we hope, perhaps more than what we believe, is far easier, presuming that we are fully prepared to base o...
- The Biblical View
- By Rev. DINSDALE T. YOUNG (President of the Wesleyan Conference) It is the pre-supposition of the Christian religion that we shall live again, and it seems to me that the whole appeal of Christiani...
- The Hope Of Immortality - Is It Reasonable?
- By J. ARTHUR HILL In these days of widespread bereavement, and when the thoughts of even those who have lost no dear ones are turned to the graver things of life, it is natural that the question of...
- The Theosophic View
- By Mrs. ANNIE BESANT Answers to this question have been sought for by man along various roads, and the answers may be classified as religious, spiritualistic, theosophic, and materialistic. The ...
- Can Converse Be Held With The Spirits Of Friends?
- By GEORGE E. WINTER If Shakespeare was right when he spoke of the next world as That undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns, then it would be impossible to answer the momento...
- We Cannot Come To An End
- By A. G. BENSON, C.V.O., M.A. The question of our immortality is far too wide and intricate for me to enter upon an argument or discussion about it here. The proof is cumulative, and contains a lar...
- Is There An Intermediate State?
- By the Rev. BENJAMIN BELL, B.D., Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England The subject is certainly one of solemn and perennial interest, and it cannot be long absent from the minds of most r...
- The Triumph Of Self
- By FLORA ANNIE STEEL, the Well-known Novelist What value, what interest, can an immortality-have for me, asks Dr. Max Nordau, in which I should no longer love what I have loved, no longer hate w...
- What Is It That Survives?
- By LADY GROVE When so many learned divines and distinguished philosophers have written on the subject of what happens to the human personality after death, I can hardly think that my opinion, even ...
- The Simplest Faiths Are Best
- By LEE DANVERS To construct is always better than to destroy, to build up better than to pull down; therefore, the simple, unquestioning faith of the Christian in a life after death must obviously ...
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