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JAMES HENRY, American theologian, born at Hookstown, Pa., in 1852. He was educated at Washington and Jefferson College and at the Western Theological Seminary. After having been ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1879, he served as pastor of churches in Huron, Ohio, Sharon, Pa., and Washington, Pa., until 1911 when he became professor of systematic theology at Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. From 1898 to 1917 he was editor-in-chief of the "Presbyterian Banner." He wrote: "Scenes and Sayings in the Life of Christ" (1903); "A Summer Across the Sea" (1908); "The World a Spiritual System An Outline of Metaphysics" (1910); "The Basal Beliefs of Christianity" (1911); "The City of Twelve Gates" (1916); "The Psychology of Religion" (1917 7): "Can We Believe in Immortality?" (1918); "The Coming of the Lord" (1919); "Is the World Growing Better?" (1919); "A Wonderful Night" (1919).