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Jane was from Newburgh, near Aberdeen, and James moved there in 1866 to engage in evangelistic work, and they were married in 1868. The family relocated in 1871 to Streatham, in London, where James became the resident evangelist at a mission hall run by Sir Arthur Stevenson Blackwood, who was senior exec of the post office from 1880, and chairman of the Mildmay devotional conferences. After Streatham, the Scroggies spent awhile in Buckinghamshire, then in the north of England, where James Scroggie labored alongside James Carr of Carlisle. Then they returned to [[Scotland]], to Annan, where three of their children died of scarlet fever in 1875. They then spent time in the Isle of Wight before returning to evangelistic activity in the north of [[Scotland]].
Graham studied at [[Spurgeon's College, London, England|Spurgeon's College]] at the age of nineteen. In 1900 he married Florence Hudson, and they had one son, Marcus, who later became a deacon of Elm Road Baptist Church, Beckenham, Kent, [[England]]. Graham's first pastorate was in Leytonstone, Essex, and ended prematurely after two years after "a decisive period of inner conflict... when he felt personally broken". He gave up his first pastorate since he had "been a middleman between his books and his people but not of the Book... I was spiritually bankrupt, and I well nigh became a spiritual casualty", according to Ian Randall's treatise on Graham's life.
=Also See=
* ''Revival in Rose Street'' by William Whyte
* ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Story_of_a_Life_in_the_Love_of_God/zNKwnQEACAAJ?hl=en The Story of the Life in the Love of God]'' , edited by Jane ScroggieGraham, and based on the diaries of his mother. It was first published in 1938 from Pickering and Inglis, and reprinted in 1948 and 1957.
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