Mary Ely Lyman

A professor of religion and ordained minister believes the Christian faith helps us to accept and not be crushed by life’s most ultimate denial.

6th printing, 1941

First woman to occupy a chair on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary

Lyman's brief pamphlet addresses our reluctance to think about our own death, and gives the Christian view on death, as she sees it. She believes in the immortality of the soul, where we will be in relationship with God. We are no more alone in the process of death than we are in life, for God is with us. This is a brief, clear, sympathetic statement.