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James William Massie <ref name="term_50204" />  

<p> a minister of the English Independents, for some time engaged in the missionary field, was born in [[Ireland]] in 1799. He was educated for the ministry by Dr. Bogue, and went out as a missionary to India. After laboring there a few years he returned to Great Britain, was pastor for a time at Perth, Scotland, and subsequently at Dublin, Ireland, and Salford, England, from which latter place he removed to Laondon, to act as secretary of the Home Missionary Society. Deeply interested in all the public rmovements of the day, he took a prominent part in the and-slavery movement. and was an active member of the Union and [[Emancipation]] societies formed during the late war in the United States. He visited this country several times, and was twice delegated from the [[Independents]] to our [[Congregationalists]] and Presbyterians. He died at Kingston, Ireland, May 8, 1869. Dr. Massie was the author of several works, among which were Continental [[India]] (1839, 2 vols. 8vo; 1840, 2 vols. 8vo): — Recollections, illustrating the Religion, etc., of the Hindus (2 vols.): — The [[Nonconformists]] Plea for [[Freedom]] of [[Education]] (1847): — The [[Evangelical]] Alliance, its Origin and Development (1847): — [[Liberty]] of [[Conscience]] illustrated, etc. (1847): — Social Improvement among the Working-Classes affecting the entire Body Politic (1849): — Slavery the [[Crime]] and [[Curse]] of [[America]] (1852): — The Contrast – War and Christianity: [[Martial]] Evils and their Remedy (1855): — [[Christ]] a Learner (1858): — Revivals in Ireland: Facts, Documents, and Correspodence (1859-60): — Revival Work (1860): — The American Crisitian Relation to the Anti-slavery Cause (1862): — America, the Origins of her present Conflict; her Prospect for the Slave, and her Claim for Anti-slavery Sympathy, illustrated by Incidents of Travel during a Tour in the [[Summer]] of 1863 throughout the United States (1864); etc. </p>

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