Cameron, James (3)
Cameron, James (1)
a Wesleyan Methodist missionary, was born at Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 1, 1805. At the age of fifteen he united with the Methodist Society, and soon began to preach in the streets of his native village. In 1829 he was accepted by the British Conference, and sent to Cape Town, South Africa, where he labored five years with ability and success. For nearly twenty-five years thereafter he toiled in various parts of the Eastern Province of South Africa, and in the Orange Free State, among. Europeans anti natives; and everywhere his labors were those of an able, undaunted, and untiring preacher. In 1857 he returned to Cape Town, where he ministered to large congregations till 1864, when he was appointed to- Natal as chairman of that district; and there and in D’Urban and in Pietermaritzburg (his residence for the last years of his life)’ he worked with loving zeal and ceaseless devotion until called away to rest, Dec. 12,1875. Mr. Cameron’s sermons were carefully prepared, massive in their structure, rich in truth, and delivered with great energy., He was a cheerful, yet serious and consistent, Christian. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1876, p. 36.
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Cameron, James (2)
an English Congregational minister, was born in 1809. He spent his boyhood at Gourock, on the Firth of Clyde; a matriculated at the university of Glasgow in 1830; was converted in 1831; and in the following year entered the Glasgow Theological-Academy. In the autumn of 1835 he went to Innerleithen to improve his health, and there instituted a series of meetings which resulted in the establishment of an Independent Church in the place, and a great religious awakening in the town. Mr. Cameron was ordained at Portobello in 1837, and in 1843 removed to Dumfries, where he remained till 1847, when he accepted a. call at Headgate, Colchester. His final charge was at Hopton, Mirfield. Here he died, March 29,1873. Those who knew him best were those who loved him most. See. (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1874, p. 316.
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Cameron, James (3)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in 1816 at Greenock, Scotland.- He came to America as the representative of a British commission house. Mercantile life proving distasteful, he pursued painting as a profession. In 1845 he went to Italy, and on his return, in 1849, was made a deacon in the Presbyterian Church at Chattanooga, Tenn. During the late civil war he left the South, removed to Philadelphia, and finally went to Greenville, Me., in 1868. At Greenville he ministered to the Congregational Church for four years. In 1870 he was ordained an evangelist, and was acting pastor at Waterville from 1872 to 1874. He then went to California, ministered to the people in San Bernardino and other places, and died at Oakland, Jan. 5, 1882. See San Francisco Bulletin, Jan. 6, 1882. (B. P.)