JAMES ALEXANDER LORD.

      James A. Lord, editor of the Christian Standard, Cincinnati. O., was born April 9, 1849, on Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada. His first schooling was in the excellent public schools on the island, which he attended until his fourteenth year without interruption, and a number of years after that during the winters: [470] in that cold climate the schools only had a week's vacation at the end of every six months' term.

      From the age of fourteen until he was twenty-two, he followed the business of fishing in his father's vessels in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of Maine, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

      He confessed faith in Christ at the age of twenty-one, under the preaching of Benjamin Franklin, by whom he was baptized, and became a member of the congregation at Lord's Cove. He entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Lexington, Ky., when he was twenty-two, and afterwards the College of the Bible.

      For six years after leaving home he studied in the colleges, taught school, worked in saw mill, clerked in a store, worked on a farm, and began to preach a little in his twenty-fifth year.

      After his marriage in Bath county, Kentucky, he ministered to country churches for two years, at the end of which he moved to Western Missouri locating at Barry, a small village ten miles north of Kansas City, where he taught the public school and preached for the congregation at that place. He was a resident of Missouri for fifteen years, during which time he preached for the following churches: Barry, Mayview, Holden, Pleasant Hill, Lone Jack, Kingsville, Wellington, Oak Grove and Warrensburg. During this time he held a number of protracted meetings, preaching frequently in schoolhouses and groves. His ministry for the church at Warrensburg continued for seven years and a half, during which time the congregation grew from 250 to over 800 members, and built the present commodious house of worship. In 1892 he accepted a call to the Central Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he ministered for two years and a half, at the expiration of which time he became editor of the Christian Standard.

      In addition to his editorial work he preaches every Sunday, usually to the little church in Central Fairmont, a suburb of Cincinnati. Bro. Lord firmly believes that the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation. The Standard has gone forward in leaps and bounds since he became its editor. He is fearless in his denunciation of sin and error. Like every man holding such a position, he has his enemies, but his friends are numbered by the thousands. He is a strong writer, a good preacher, a genial companion, and a warm friend to every cause which tends to lift humanity.

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