Introduction

Biography

James was the son of Samp­son and Ca­ther­ine Reed. He be­came a Swe­den­bor­gi­an min­is­ter, and served as Se­cond Min­is­ter, Bo­ston So­cie­ty of the New Je­ru­sa­lem, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Works

• Celebration of the Two-Hun­dredth An­ni­ver­sa­ry of the In­cor­po­ra­tion of Bridge­wa­ter, Mas­sa­chu­setts (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: J. Wil­son & Son, 1856)
• Religion and Life, 1869
• Man and Wo­man, Eq­ual but Un­like (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ni­chols & Noyes, 1870)
• A Bio­gra-phi­cal Sketch of Tho­mas Wor­ces­ter (Boston, Mas­sa­chu­setts: New Church Un­ion, 1880)
• Observations on the Growth of the Mind, with Samp­son Reed (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Hough­ton, Mif­flin, 1886)
• Earthly Prob­lems in Hea­ven­ly Light, with Hen­ry Clin­ton Hay, 1904
• Death and the Life Be­yond, with Hen­ry Clin­ton Hay, 1906
• Swedenborg and the New Church (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Hough­ton, Os­good, 1880)