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JOHN ANGELL JAMES (1785-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 144 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ANGELL See also:JAMES (1785-1859)  , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Blandford, See also:Dorsetshire, on the 6th of See also:June 1785 . At the See also:close of his seven years' See also:apprenticeship to a See also:linen-See also:draper at See also:Poole he decided to become a preacher, and in 18o2 he went to See also:David See also:Bogue's training institution at See also:Gosport . A See also:year and a See also:half later, on a visit to See also:Birmingham, his See also:preaching was so highly esteemed by the See also:congregation of Carr's See also:Lane See also:Independent See also:chapel that they invited him to exercise his See also:ministry amongst them; he settled there in 18o5, and was ordained in May 18o6 . For several years his success as a preacher was comparatively small; but he jumped into popularity about 1814, and began to attract large crowds wherever he officiated . At the same See also:time his religious writings, the best known of which are The Anxious Inquirer and An See also:Earnest Ministry, acquired a wide circulation . See also:James was a typical Congregational preacher of the See also:early 19th See also:century, massive and elaborate rather than See also:original . His preaching displayed little or nothing of Calvinism, the earlier severity of which had been modified in Birmingham by See also:Edward See also:Williams, one of his predecessors . He was one of the founders of the Evangelical See also:Alliance and of the Congregational See also:Union of See also:England and See also:Wales . Municipal interests appealed strongly to him, and he was also for many years chairman of See also:Spring See also:Hill (afterwards See also:Mansfield) See also:College . He died at Birmingham on the 1st of See also:October 1859 . A collected edition of James's See also:works appeared in 186o-1864 . See A See also:Review of the See also:Life and See also:Character of J .

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Angell James (186o), by J . See also:Campbell, and Life and Letters of J . A . James (1861), edited by his successor, R . W . See also:Dale, who also contributed a See also:sketch of his predecessor to See also:Pulpit Memorials (1878) .

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