James Carlile

Home missionary In 1839 he successfully persuaded his church to allow him to become their missionary to a church in Birr. This church, led by their minister, had left the Roman Catholic Church and had applied to join the Presbyterians. Carlile journeyed to London to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention on 12 June 1840. The picture above shows him in a painting made to commemorate the event which attracted delegates from America, France, Haiti, Australia, Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados.

In 1845 Carlile was moderator of the church's general assembly and in the same year he was awarded a Doctorate in Divinity from Glasgow University.

Works

Sermons on Faith and Repentance, London, 1821.

The Apocryphal Controversy summed up, Glasgow, 1827. On the Constitution of the Primitive Churches, Dublin, 1831. Letters on the Divine Origin and Authority of Scripture, 2 vols., London, 1833. On the First and Second Advents, Edinburgh, 1848. Fruit gathered from among Roman Catholics in Ireland, London, 1848. The Papal Invasion: how to repel it, London, 1850. Manual of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Mind, London, 1851. Station and Occupation of Saints in Final Glory, London, 1854.