JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)

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JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859) , English Nonconformist divine, was born at Blandford, Dorsetshire, on the 6th of June 1785. At the close of his seven years'

apprenticeship

APPRENTICESHIP (from Fr. apprendre, to learn)

to a linen-

draper

DRAPER
DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (1811-1882)

at Poole he decided to become a preacher, and in 18o2 he went to

David

Bogue's training institution at

Gosport

GOSPORT

. A year and a half later, on a visit to Birmingham, his preaching was so highly esteemed by the congregation of Carr's Lane Independent chapel that they invited him to exercise his 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 time his religious writings, the best known of which are The Anxious Inquirer and An

Earnest

EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

Ministry, acquired a wide circulation. James was a typical Congregational preacher of the early 19th century, massive and elaborate rather than

original

ORIGINAL

. His preaching displayed little or nothing of Calvinism, the earlier severity of which had been modified in Birmingham by

Edward

EDWARD

Williams, one of his predecessors. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance and of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. Municipal interests appealed strongly to him, and he was also for many years chairman of

Spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Hill (afterwards Mansfield) College. He died at Birmingham on the 1st of October 1859.
A collected edition of James's works appeared in 186o-1864. See A

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

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

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