The Works of John Angell James, Vol. 3: Onewhile Minister of the Church Assembling in Carrs Lane Birmingham
by John Angell James
Excerpt from The Works of John Angell James, Vol. 3: Onewhile Minister of the Church Assembling in Carrs Lane Birmingham
It is no disparagement to the Author to say that he owed much of his success and comfort in his church and congregation to the counsel and assistance of his younger brother, whose memory he has embalmed in the following discourse. For Mr James James's ability and aptitude in business were such as, with due training, would have fitted him to serve the public in posts far higher than those which fell to his lot. And it was most delightful to see the mutual affection of the brothers, and their reciprocal pride in each other.
During the thirty-seven years they were spared to each other in Birmingham, Mr James James, notwithstanding several changes of residence, always lived in his brother's immediate neighbourhood, except for one twelvemonth, which was in consequence a time of discomfort to both. The Author attended his brother through his last illness with the devotion and tenderness of a woman, and never regained his own spirits after laying him in the grave.
The Author prefixed to the sermon the following preface:
"In discharging the mournful, unusual, and delicate task of preaching a funeral discourse on the death of a beloved brother, I was anxious to say neither all that affection might prompt, nor less than justice demanded.
"It will perhaps be thought that the earlier parts of the sermon partake too little of the solemn and the pathetic to suit the occasion. In the selection of a subject, I was guided by three considerations; a wish to avoid whatever might prove too severe a trial of my own feelings; a desire to adapt the discourse to the character and public career of my lamented brother; and an anxiety to hold up a great public principle to guide the conduct of the living."
It is no disparagement to the Author to say that he owed much of his success and comfort in his church and congregation to the counsel and assistance of his younger brother, whose memory he has embalmed in the following discourse. For Mr James James's ability and aptitude in business were such as, with due training, would have fitted him to serve the public in posts far higher than those which fell to his lot. And it was most delightful to see the mutual affection of the brothers, and their reciprocal pride in each other.
During the thirty-seven years they were spared to each other in Birmingham, Mr James James, notwithstanding several changes of residence, always lived in his brother's immediate neighbourhood, except for one twelvemonth, which was in consequence a time of discomfort to both. The Author attended his brother through his last illness with the devotion and tenderness of a woman, and never regained his own spirits after laying him in the grave.
The Author prefixed to the sermon the following preface:
"In discharging the mournful, unusual, and delicate task of preaching a funeral discourse on the death of a beloved brother, I was anxious to say neither all that affection might prompt, nor less than justice demanded.
"It will perhaps be thought that the earlier parts of the sermon partake too little of the solemn and the pathetic to suit the occasion. In the selection of a subject, I was guided by three considerations; a wish to avoid whatever might prove too severe a trial of my own feelings; a desire to adapt the discourse to the character and public career of my lamented brother; and an anxiety to hold up a great public principle to guide the conduct of the living."
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Published August 2nd 2018 by Forgotten Books (first published 1860)
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John Angell James was an English Nonconformist clergyman and writer, born at Blandford Forum. After seven years apprenticeship to a linen-draper in Poole, Dorset, he decided to become a preacher, and in 1802 he went to David Bogue's training institution at Gosport in Hampshire. A year and a half later, on a visit to Birmingham, his preaching was so highly esteemed by the congregation of Carrs Lane Independent chapel that they invited him to exercise his ministry amongst them; he settled there in 1805, and was ordained in May 1806. For several years his success as a preacher was comparatively small; but he became suddenly popular in about 1814, and began to attract large crowds. At the same time his religious writings, the best known of which are The Anxious Inquirer and An Earnest Ministry, acquired a wide circulation.
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 Hill (afterwards Mansfield) College. He was also an ardent slavery abolitionist.
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