in Immorta ity AFFIRMATIONS BY ONE HUNDRED MEN AND WOMEK Edited by SYDNEY STRONG PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY COWARD-McCANN, INC. IN THE YEAR 1929 To my mother, wife and children In whose eyes I have seen radiant gleams of immortality, and in whose lives witnessed abundant revelation CONTRIBUTORS Peter Ainslie 13 Charles F. Aked 174 Arn S. Allen 83 Roger W. Babson 186 B. W. Bacon 66 James L. Barton 11 Herbert S. Bigelow 35 Alice Stone Blackwell 6 Dan F. Bradley 144 Charles R. Brown 106 Elmer Ellsworth Brown 46 Hugh Elmer Brown 36 William Adams Brown 28 Kenyon L. Butterfield 17 S. Parkes Cadman 38 Raymond Calkins 93 Arthur Capper 182 Edmund B. Chaffee 21 James H. Chase 20 George W. Coleman 89 L. R. G. Crandon 141 James E. Crowther 60 Countee Cullen 15 Vera Campbell Darr 72 Jerome Davis 85 Margaret Deland 19 W. E. B. Du Bois 18 J. Stanley Durkee 127 Sherwood Eddy 22 W. H. P. Faunce 50 Edward A Filene 170 Mary Hanford Ford v 30 Harry Emerson Fosdick 58 William Goodell Frost 147 Charles W. Gilkey 157 Abel J. Gregg 99 Sidney L. Gulick 178 Lewis O, Hartman, .., ...., ..., 138 Theodore Heline 103 John Gner Hibben 12 Newell Dwight Hilfis 79 John Haynes Holmes . . ., 52 Lynn Harold Hough, .... 32 William Lloyd Imes 151 Charles Edward Jefferson 87 James Weldon Johnson 34 Paul Jones 114 Rufus M. Jones 124 David Starr Jordan 9 Helen Keller 116 Henry Churchill King 7 Isaac Landsman 160 Ruth Le Prade 3 S. O. Levinson 70 Vachel Lindsay 193 Clarence C. Little 10 Fred Lockley 68 W. Douglas Mackenzie 81 William T. Manning 148 Edwin Markham 101 Daniel L. Marsh 40 Shailer Mathews 91 William Fraser McDowell 112 Robert Andrews Millikan 76 Julian Morgenstern . 95 R. R. Moton 62 A, J. Muste 166 Joseph Fort Newton,154 John F. ORyan 64 G. Bromley Oxnam 121 Daniel A. Poling 74 Warren Lincoln Rogers 163 Eibert Russel 27 Henry Norris Russell .. 132 John A, Ryan, 14 Samuel Schulman, ........, . 135 Vida D. Scudder 109 Charles M. Sheldon ., .97 Arthur H. Smith 24 Theodore Gerald Scares 54 Emma Bailey Speer, .4 Robert E. Speer 56 Nathan Straus, .... 5 Graham Taylor 130 Charles R Thwing S John J. Tigert ., . .42 Ernest Fremont Tittle, 48 Theodore K. Vogler 118 Robert Whitaker 44 StSpheo S. Wise ., .., 26 Mary P, Woolley ., .., 25 PREFACE In bringing together these brief state ments giving the heart of mental attitudes toward the idea of immortality, the editor believes that he is satisfying a deep popular interest Not long ago, the New York Times ran an Easter symposium, Immor tality What I Believe and the New York World brought together a series of answers from eminent men, British and American, in reply to the question, Is Death the End of All The London Daily News and Westminster Gazette last year carried on a daily discussion on its editorial page, last ing a month, under the heading Where Are the Dead The present collection is one of medi tated opinions. The contributors have not known what the others were going to say. This has made for independence of thought, and instead of the repetition and duplica tion that any editor fears in collecting opin ions, the replies revealed a variety of opin ions and faiths growing out of personal experience and needs. PREFACE The method of arrangement of the replies has been the simple one of placing those of the greatest brevity first, so that as the dis cussion of the subjects unfolds, the state ments lengthen. The editor sends the book on its way knowing thatit will find its pub lic among the clergy, teachers, social work ers, and college students and that it will be a boon to all who consider the perplexing question of personal immortality in time of bereavement. Statements marked with an appeared in the symposium on immortality printed in the New York Times, and to the editors of this paper acknowledgment is due for per mission to reprint January i, 1929. S. S. WE BELIEVE IN IMMORTALITY IMMORTALITY Hymn to the Soul Beauty may wither And beauty may die But the soul of beauty Endureth forever...