OR

WHAT LIVING MEN BELIEVE CONCERNING

PUNISHMENT AFTER DEATH

TOGETHER WITH

RECORDED VIEWS OF MEN OF FORMER TIMES

THE WHOLE FIELD EXPLORED

EVERY SOURCE OF WISDOM, PAST AND PRESENT, MADE TRIBUTARY

TO THE ILLUMINATION OF THIS THEME

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LIST OF AUTHORS

EACH OF WHOM HAS WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK.

REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D., Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn; Editor The Christian Union.

REV. JOHN COLEMAN ADAMS, D.D., Pastor St. Paul's Universalist Church,

Chicago.

REV. JOSEPH ANGUS, M.A., D.D., President Regent's Park College, London, England. Member of the Bible Revision.

REV. LEONARD WOOLSEY BACON, D.D., Philadelphia.

REV. L. C. BAKER, A.M., Editor Words of Reconciliation, Philadelphia.

REV. S. C. BARTLETT, D.D., LL.D., President Dartmouth College.

REV. JAMES M. BUCKLEY, D.D., Editor The Christian Advocate, New York.

REV. F. W. CONRAD, D.D., Editor The Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia.

REV. HOWARD CROSBY, D.D., LL.D., Late Chancellor of New York University. REV. JOSEPH CUMMINGS, D.D., LL.D., President Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

REV. E. DEPRESSENSÉ, D.D., Life Member of the French Senate, Paris, France.
REV. F. W. FARRAR, Archdeacon of Westminster, and Chaplain to the Queen of
England.

REV. GEORGE P. FISHER, Professor Ecclesiastical History, Yale University.
REV. T. W. FOWLE, M.A., Islip Rectory, Oxford, England.

REV. CHAS. H. FOWLER, D.D., LL.D., Bishop M. E. Church.

REV. W. H. FRENCH, D.D., Pastor United Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, O.
REV. E. V. GERHART, D.D., Professor German Reformed Sem., Lancaster, Pa.
REV. CHAUNCEY GILES, D.D., LL.D., Pastor New Jerusalem Church, Philadelphia.
REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Pastor First Congregational Church, Colum-
bus, Ohio.

REV. FREDERICK GODET, D.D., Professor Theolog. Faculty, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D., Pastor South Cong. (Unitarian) Church,
Boston.

REV. GEORGE HARRIS, D.D., Professor Christian Theology, Andover Seminary. REV. E. R. HENDRIX, D.D., Bishop M. E. Church (South).

REV. AUGUSTINE F. HEWIT, D.D., Superior of the Paulist Institute, New York. REV. JOHN H. HOPKINS, S.T.D., Burlington, Vt.

REV. J. W. HOTT, D.D., Editor The Religious Telescope (United Brethren).