|
James M. Gray James M. Gray, the third president of Moody Bible Institute, was
born in the city of New York on 11 May 1851. His father Hugh Gray
had eight children and died shortly after James was born. Later he
was raised by his eldest brother. In 1865 at the age of fourteen,
he was confirmed by a bishop of his church. After college, Dr. Gray
entered into formal training in the Protestant Episcopal Church for
a ministerial career. In 1873 while he was in training, he accepted Christ through the
reading of a series of homilies on the book of Proverbs in the quietness
of his room. Soon after his ordination in 1877, he assumed the pastorate
of the Church of Redemption in Brooklyn, New York. From this urban
church he ministered in the small but prestigious town in New York
called Newburgh-on-the-Hudson to the Church of the Corner Stone for
a year. In 1879 Dr. Gray was called to pastor the First Reformed Episcopal
Church in Boston where he served for fourteen years. During that
time he established three separate branch churches. Dr. Gray associated
himself with the Boston Bible and Missionary Training School from
its inception in 1889 by Adoniram Judson Gordon, and taught courses
here until 1903 - 4. Dr. Gray married Amanda Thorne in 1870. She gave birth to Hugh Barr
Gray in 1872, James M. Gray Jr. in 1879, and a son Charles who lived |