uplifts of Heart and Will. 



By JAMES H. WEST. 



A Series of Thirty-Seven Keligious Meditations, or Aspirations, 



Fitted for Private or Public Keligious Uplooking. 



Addressed to Earnest Men and Women. 



" It takes a soul to move a body. 

 Life develops from within." 



PRESS CRITICISMS. 



"On purely rational grounds it is not easy to meet the position [of 

 this little book], except by saying that the words and forms of our 

 [usual] devotion must be accepted a,sfrankl]/ symbolic, and not amenable 

 to the understanding. * * * It is good to welcome a religious science 

 better than the old hard bigotry. Still, while we by no means accept 

 these 'Uplifts' as a necessary or an adequate substitute for the cus- 

 tomary exercises of devotion, they are at least better fitted than the 

 ordinary practice to a state of mind far from uncommon, and greatly 

 deserving of respect." From a seven-page notice in the Unitarian 

 Beview. 



"A man of gifts and graces making an effort to get out of the old 

 and worn-out way of petitioning for special things to a deity supposed 

 to deal in special providences. Heartfelt and choicely worded, the book 

 is the reaching out for more life and light of an earnest man." lieligio- 

 Philosophical Journal. 



"The outpourings of a soul deeply religious in the best sense, but 

 suspicious of forms. Truly beautiful invocations. The volume con- 

 tains the strongest possible testimony to the indestructibility of the 

 religious sentiment. Tlie poems at the end are also fvill to ovcrilowing 

 with noble feeling. This volume is one of the many assurances that the 

 liberal church will fast enough gather poetry, music and art, to invest 

 its nobler thought." New Theology Herald. 



PERSONAL EXPRESSIONS. 



An aged man, a physician, of whom we know nothing except that 

 he ordered a copy of the book, writes: "I have read Avith delight 

 the little book, 'Uplifts of Heart and Will.' I am now nearly G2 years 

 of age, and have lived a lonely life as regards the satisfying of my lib- 

 eral religious aspirations. Your little book fills a void in my soul's 

 loneliness which I have suffered for more than forty years." 



A Boston lady writes: " Tliey are very encouraging just what I need. 

 Many hours of earnest thought and conscientious work must liave gone 

 to their writing. It is good to have peace and truth in the heart ! We 

 must hold to that! I look into the book often, and I hope it will do good 

 to many." 



From a Unitarian minister: "I hail the 'Uplifts' as a good sign, 

 another step out into the free, where we must be content to let all con- 

 secrated thinking po." 



From a liberal tliinker: "I am well pleased with the 'Ui)lifts,' and 

 especially because they come near to my own spirit's workings, when I 

 have felt as if I stood alone." 



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