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==Brethren Intro==
His mother was saved in 1931 after hearing [[Joseph GlanceyGlancy]], a converted Catholic, preach the Gospel in Victoria Street Gospel Hall, Banbridge, mid-week thru the third meeting. In 1932, James' father was saved after five weeks of Gospel meetings at the same assembly, preached by David Walker, from Aberdeen. During the following years James' parents read the Bible morning and evening, and prayed with the children, and took their children to Gospel and other special meetings.
==Conversion==
: "In nothing be anxious. <br />For see how tenderly the Lord is guiding thee, <br />does he not hold thy hands with love and understands? <br />Listening when thou dost plead... <br />supplying all thy need, in nothing be anxious."
So by the middle of the fourth week, James had seen a soul saved and his £7 was restored, which assured that he was in the right way. The next day he promised the Lord that if He wanted him to preach the gospel he would neither write, phone or ask for meetings, and for the next 66 years he has never been out of work or invitations to preach the gospel.
In James' own words, "As one looks back over these many years, we can, in measure, join with Paul and say, "Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day," (Acts 26:22). He also spoke of "God, whose I am, and whom I serve," (Acts 27:23). We have sought to continue in the pathway of those who said, "We ought to obey God rather than men," (Acts 5:29).
==Later life===Predeceased by his wife in 2001, he was cared for by his only son Wesley and wife Karen. Wesley is a full-time servant of the Lord who labored with his father in recent years until his father’s ill health made this no longer possible.He is survived by his only son, daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter, and their spouses, all in assembly fellowship. The assemblies of the Lord’s people remember, with deep affection, the labors of this dear servant of God, whose praise was in the gospel.
His very large funeral was taken by Alan Davidson and John Fleck who were saved as boys while attending gospel meetings conducted by Mr. Martin and other brethren.