Excerpt from The Intermediate State Between Death and Judgment: Being a Sequel to After Death Leven years have elapsed since I published After Death. It embodied the results of a patient investigation upon three important ques tions connected with the Intermediate State, viz., (l) the lawfulness of praying in any way for the dead (2) the grounds for believing in the inter cessions of the dead on our behalf; and as a consequence of this belief, the legitimacy of the practice of addressing appeals to the dead for their help or intercession. I endeavoured to set forth dispassionately, without prejudice of any kind, the conclusions which seemed to be forced upon us by an accumulation of evidence drawn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.