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James (Name of two if not three)

a name of two, if not three, persons mentioned in the New Testa- Their occupation was that of fishermen.

We find James, John, and Peter associated on several interesting occasions in the Saviour's life. They alone were Their occupation was that of fishermen.

We find James, John, and Peter associ- ated on several interesting occasions in the restoration to life of Jairus' daughter (Mark v: 42; Luke viii: 51); and in the garden of Gethsemane during the xvii: 1; Mark ix: 2; Luke ix: 29) at Luke xxii: 39). With Andrew they listened in private to our Lord's discourse on the fall of Jerusalem (Mark xiii: 3). duct than of belief, though the indispenduct than of belief, though the indispen- sableness of faith to efficacious prayer is strongly insisted on (i: 6). Portions of it look antagonistic to the teaching of St. Paul (see Rom. iii: 28 with James ii: 21, 25). The epistle was written certain. It has been fixed in A. D. 44 or probably at Jerusalem. Its date is un- 45, in A. D. 60, in A. D. 62, and not till the 2d century. It figures in the Syrian Version of the New Testament. It was

In A. D. 397 the Council of Car- Version of the New Testament. It was ranked by Eusebius among his antilogoumena. thage placed it in the canon. Though Divine Scripture. is now generally accepted as a portion of JAMES I., King of Scotland; son of Robert III.; born in 1394. He was taken by the English on his passage to France, 1424 he obtained his liberty, on condition and kept in confinement

18 years. In 1424 he obtained his liberty, on condition Somerset. He severely punished those who had governed his country in his abappear to have of the kingdom xx: 20-23;

ix: 54, we perament was account, probenergy in dis they received appellation of of Thunder." tyr among the Alexandria, in a usebius, reports conducted James to influenced by the bold has to avow himan; in consequence of aded at the same time. saint of Spain. (2) Alpheus, one of the ili: 18; Matt. x: 8; 13). His mother's xxvii: 56; Mark r passage he is either as being son of Zebedee, stature (Mark (

3) JAMES, "the Gal. i: 19). mea. The first of the t was penned by either Alpheus, or James, the ord, if the two were apostle who bore both the 12 tribes scatbeyond the limits teaching is in disconnd treats more of conthough the indispenefficacious prayer (

1:6). Portions e to the teaching iii: 28 with James tle was written date is unfixed in A. n. 44 or and not till igures in the Syrian Testament. It was among his antilogou- 7 the Council of Carthe canon Though fully of it, yet it ccepted as a portion of nem of Scotland; son of He was taken 18 to France,

18 years. In on condition of the Earl of punished those his country in his ab- JAMES II. sence, for which he was murdered in his bed in 1437.

JAMES II.; born in 1430, succeeded the preceding king, his father, at the age of seven years . He assisted Charles VII. of France against the English, and those lords who had revolted against him. He was killed at the siege of Roxburgh in 1460.

JAMES III., borm about 1453, was the son and successor of the above, and ascended the throne in 1460. He put to death his brother John, and committed SO many cruelties that his subjects remany cruelties that his subjects revolted. He was killed in 1488.

JAMES IV.; born about 1473, succeeded his father, the last-mentioned, at the age of about 15 years. He defeated the rebellious lords, and assisted Louis XII., King of France, against the English; but was slain at the battle of Flodden Field, in 1513.

JAMES V., the son of the above; born in 1512, was only a year old at the time of his father's death. At the age of 17 he assumed the government, and assisted Francis I. of France against the Emperor Charles V., for which the French king gave him his daughter Margaret in marriage. On her decease, he married Mary of Lorraine, daughter of Claude, death, James left his crown to Mary Stuart, his daughter. He died in ter. He died in 1542.

JAMES I., of England and VI. of Scotland; born in the castle of Edin- ; born in the castle of Edinburgh, in 1566, burgh, in 1566, was the son of Henry , by Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James V. When only a year old he was proclaimed king, on the forced resignation of his mother, and in 1603 he succeeded Queen Elizabeth on the English throne. A plot was soon after discovered to seize on him, and place his cousin, the Lady Arabella the English throne in his stead, for which Lords Cobham and Grey, and Sir Walter Raleigh were in- 1605, the more desperate attempt to blow up the king, prince, and both houses of Parliament, known as the , was discovered, for which Guy Fawkes and many other persons were sons were executed. In 1606, he estabin Scotland, and made peace with Spain. In 1612, his son, Prince Henry, by Anne of Denmark, died, and the same year his daughter was married to Frederick, the elector-palatine.

One of the greatest blots of his reign was the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh. He died in 1625.

JAMES JAMES II., of England; born in London in 1633. He was the second son of York soon after his birth. At the Charles I.

Charles I. He was declared Duke of Restoration he returned to England, where he secretly married Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, by whom he had two daughters, who afterward became queens of England; viz., Mary and Anne. In the Dutch war he himself as commander of the JAMES II. OF ENGLAND English fleet, and showed great skill and bravery. On the death of his first wife, he married Mary Beatrix of Modena.

He succeeded to the throne on the death of of Charles II. in 1685; but his zeal for into measures subversive of the constithe Roman Catholic religion leading him tution the Prince of Orange, who had married his daughter Mary, was invited to England by several of the English king, finding himself France. He died in St. Germain in abandoned by his friends, withdrew to 1701. ican philanthropist and merchant, born