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James Martin Gray
Built-in	May eleven, 1851 New York City
Died	September 21, 1935 Chicago
Occupation	Episcopal pastor, writer

James Martin Gray (May 11, 1851 – September 21, 1935) was a pastor in the Reformed Episcopal Church, a Bible scholar, editor, hymn writer, and the president of Moody Bible Institute, 1904-34.

Biography [edit]

Gray was built-in in New York City as one of the younger of eight children. His father, Hugh Gray, died shortly afterward his nascence. James Greyness was raised in the Episcopal church building, and probably later on attending higher in New York,^[1] he began training for a career as a priest. While preparing himself for the ministry building, Greyness experienced an evangelical conversion (mostly probable in 1873) after reading homilies on the volume of Proverbs by William Arnot.^[2] In 1870, Gray married Amanda Thorne, who died in 1875 while giving birth to their fifth child, who also died.^[3]

As Gray continued to prepare himself for the ministry in New York, the Episcopal Church was troubled by a disharmonize between evangelicals and Tractarians, who wished to emphasize ritualism. In 1873, Bishop George D. Cummins resigned from the Episcopal Church and helped found the Reformed Episcopal denomination. Gray sided with the seceders.^[four]

Gray was ordained in 1877, and causeless the pastorate of the Church building of the Redemption in Brooklyn, New York for one year. He spent another year at the Church of the Corner-Stone in Newburgh. In 1879, Grayness was chosen to assist an elderly pastor at the pocket-sized Reformed Episcopal Church building in Boston, which prospered after his arrival and grew from a handful of worshipers to a congregation of more than 230. The Boston church building as well managed to establish three additional churches during Greyness's pastorate, all of which failed before long after his departure.^[5]

While in Boston, he too became involved with Adoniram Judson Gordon in the founding of the Boston Bible and Missionary Training School, later Gordon Divinity School, where he was a professor from 1889 to 1904. In Boston he married Susan Chiliad. Gray, who also served on the faculty.^[6] During this period, Bates Higher, Lewiston, Maine, conferred on Grayness an honorary doctor of divinity degree.^[7]

Throughout the 1890s, Gray worked alongside D. 50. Moody in the latter's evangelistic campaigns in New York, Boston, and Chicago; and Gray became connected Moody Bible Plant serving in a diversity of positions from summer invitee lecturer (kickoff in 1892) to dean, executive secretary, and finally, president (the third, after D. L. Moody and R. A. Torrey) from 1904 to 1934. Gray also edited Moody Monthly and preached at Moody's Chicago Avenue Church (afterwards known every bit the Moody Church building).

Theologically, Gray was an early on fundamentalist who upheld the inspiration of the Bible and opposed a contemporary trend toward a social gospel. Greyness was besides a dispensationalist who believed in the premillennial, pre-tribulational render of Jesus Christ at the Rapture.^[8] Personally, Greyness was conservative in dress and personal addiction. A reporter remarked that he "cultivated gentlemanliness as a fine fine art." Male students at Moody were required to wear coats and ties in the dining room, and during a hot spell in July 1908, Grayness admonished faculty members for taking off their coats and vests in their offices.^[ix]

Gray was 1 of the seven editors of the first Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Gray wrote 25 books and pamphlets, some of which remain in print. He as well wrote a number of hymns, perhaps the best known of which is Only a Sinner, Saved by Grace.^[10]

On November 1, 1934, he resigned equally President of MBI at the age of 83, but continued to serve every bit President-Emeritus. He died of a center assault on September 21, 1935. The Torrey-Grey Auditorium at the Moody Bible Institute is named in award of Gray and his predecessor, R. A. Torrey.

Works [edit]

• The Errors of "Millennial Dawnism". Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Clan, 1871.
• The History of the Holy Dead. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1896.
• Bulwarks of the Faith. Elgin, IL: Brethren Publishing House, 1899.
• Synthetic Bible Studies. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1906.
• The Antitoxin to Christian Science: How to Deal with It from the Bible and Christian Signal of View. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1907.
• Scofield Reference Bible, editor, 1909
• Satan and the Saint: The Present Darkness and the Coming Calorie-free. Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, c1909.
• Great Epochs of Sacred History and the Shadows They Cast'. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1910.
• Progress in the Life to Come. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1910.
• Conservancy from Get-go to Finish. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1911.
• Bible Problems Explained. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1913.
• Christian Worker's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1915.
• Prophecy and the Lord'southward Render: A Collection of Popular Articles and Addresses. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1917.
• Film of the Resurrection. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1917.
• A Textbook on Prophecy. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1918
• Spiritism and the Fallen Angels in the Light of the Onetime and New Testaments. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1920.
• My Organized religion in Jesus Christ: A Personal Testimony. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1927
• Didactics and Preaching that Counts. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1934.
• The Holy Spirit in Doctrine and Life. New York: Fleming H. Revell, c1936.
• How to Master the English Bible. Chicago: Moody Press, 1951.
• Mountain Peaks of Prophecy. New York: Christian Herald Bible House, North.d.
• The Story of My Conversion. Chicago: Moody Bible Institute, North.d.
• The Curtailed Bible Commentary, Hendrickson Publishers (electric current edition) ISBN 1-56563-393-8

Notes [edit]

1. ^ It is possible, though unlikely, that Gray never attended college. An early biographer says that Gray "was built-in in the city of New York in 1851; and every bit a youth enjoyed its exceptional educational advantages." J.M.H., "Rev. James M. Grayness, D.D.," Our Field and Work, ane (June 1898), 105.
2. ^ John David Hannah, "James Martin Grayness, 1851-1935: His Life and Piece of work," Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary (1974), 68.
3. ^ MBI biography Archived 2012-07-13 at archive.today
4. ^ Hannah, 72-75.
5. ^ Hannah, 77-91.
6. ^ Hannah, 92-97.
7. ^ Runyan, 41. In 1929, Gray was awarded another honorary degree, past the short-lived Des Moines University.
8. ^ Hannah, ii.
9. ^ Virginia Lieson Brereton, Training God's Ground forces: The American Bible Schoolhouse, 1880-1940 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 144.
10. ^ Just a Sinner at my.homewithgod.com

References [edit]

• Hannah, John. James Martin Gray 1851-1935: His Life and Piece of work. Thursday.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1974.
• Runyan, William. Dr. Gray at Moody Bible Found. New York: Oxford University Press, 1935.
• Short biographical sketch
• Biography from Moody Bible Establish website

External links [edit]

• Works past James Gray at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or most James Martin Grey at Internet Archive

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