The second volume in the collected Works of John Angell James, edited by his son, Thomas Smith James, published in seventeen volumes between 1860 and 1864.
The second of three volumes of sermons, the contents of this volume are:
- The death of eminent ministers a public loss: funeral sermon for Dr. Bogue, 1825.
- Missionary prospects: preached on opening Hoxton College as a missionary seminary, 1826.
- Pastoral claims stated: preached at the settlement of the Rev. J. Mather, 1827.
- Missionary sermon to the young, 1828.
- Dislike to ministerial fidelity: published in the "Monthly Preacher," 1831.
- Funeral sermon for Mrs. Sherman, 1848.
- Sermon on the jubilee of the London Missionary Society, 1849.
- The aged minister of Christ contemplated: preached on the jubilee of the Rev. J. Gawthorn, 1851.
- The character and translation of Enoch: funeral sermon for the Rev. T. Weaver, 1852.
- Sermon preached on the centenary of the Bristol Tabernacle, 1853.
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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