James William Massie (11 November 1799 – 8 May 1869) was a Scottish nondenominational minister and missionary to India. James William Massie Holl

Life

Born in

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, Scotland, he was ordained in 1822. He then began his ministry as a missionary with the

London Missionary Society The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed tradition, Reformed in outlook, with ...

in India - first in

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from 1823 to 1825, and then

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from 1825 until around 1827. From 1828 until 1830, he tried to establish a Congregational chapel in

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, Scotland. Massie ministered in

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from 1831 until 1836, and was then minister of

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Congregational Church in Scotland until 1841. He was in

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, England, until 1848, and then moved to London to become secretary of the Home Missionary Society. Massie was frequently in Ireland, on revival work, and died in

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, near Dublin. He was an advocate of

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, making a celebrated speech for the anti-Cornlaw League in 1842. He was also an

abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was Kingdom of France, France in 1315, but it was later used ...

, and a member of the union and emancipation societies that were formed during the

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in America. He visited America several times. He was married with one son, Milton, and two daughters.

Publications

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Liberty of Conscience Illustrated
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The Contract: War and Christianity
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References

Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Massie, James William 1799 births 1869 deaths Scottish Congregationalist ministers