This Life and the Next: The Effect on This Life of Faith in Another

“I am not proposing to speak about the grounds in this life of a belief in another, but about the reaction of that belief upon this life.” P. T. Forsyth’s This Life and the Next is a rich and rewarding study of the impact the belief in immortality should have on the conduct of one’s present life. The doctrine of immortality must not be a doctrine for the end of life; instead, it must be a working principle in our everyday lives.