Arthur James Moore, American bishop. Member Commission Inter-Denominational Relations and Church Union, 1934-1939; Mason (32°,Kiloton).; Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Background
Arthur was born December 26, 1888 in Waycross, Georgia, the son of John Spencer and Emma Victoria (née Cason) Moore. Arthur was of Irish ancestry. His great grandfather came to North Carolina and his grandfather moved to Georgia.
Arthur"s grandfather later died in the Battle of Gaines" Mill in 1862.
Arthur married Martha "Mattie" T. McDonald April 26, 1906.
They had children William Harry, Wilbur Wardlaw, Alice Evelyn Means, Arthur James Junior., and Dorothy Emma. Mattie died in 1964.
Education
Arthur Senior studied at Emory College in Oxford, Georgia from 1909 until 1911. He subsequently was awarded several honorary degrees, including the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky (1922), Central College, Fayette, Missouri (1924), and Emory University (1934). And the degree of Doctor of Laws from Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas (1935), Randolph-Macon College (1939), Florida Southern College (1942), and Mercer University (1968).
Career
He did not complete an earned degree. Instead, he was converted to Christ in his twenty-first year and began to preach at once! Arthur experienced a "drastic" conversion to Christ in his twenty-first year and began to preach at once. He joined the South Georgia Annual Conference in 1909.
He served various churches as Pastor during 1909-1920.
He also served as a roving evangelist, and was a most eloquent speaker. In 1920, the Review Moore was appointed to the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas, serving there until 1926.
He then was appointed Pastor of First Methodist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Bishop Moore was assigned responsibility for all missionary activities of the MECS in China, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Poland and of Korea, until 1940.
In 1940 he was assigned the Atlanta Episcopal Area of the (newly reunited) Methodist Church.
His address was 63 Auburn Avenue., North.E., Atlanta. Bishop Moore also served as President of Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia in 1941, and as Chairman of the Board. He was also the organizer and first President of the Board of Evangelism of The Methodist Church.
The Review Moore was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Committee on Interdenominational Relations and Church Union of the MECS (1934-1939), and President of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church.
Connections
Married Mattie T. McDonald, April. Children: William Harry, Wilbur Wardlaw, Alice Evelyn, Dorothy Emma, Arthur James.