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James Booth Converse was an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. He served as a pastor at the various locations in Kentucky and Virginia.
Background
James Booth Converse was born on April 08, 1844 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of the Reverend Amasa Converse and of Flavia Booth. His father, who was of New England birth and education but had lived in the South, was proprietor of a church paper, the Christian Observer, which was suppressed by the federal government in 1861 because of Converse’s vehement opposition to “the spirit of anti-slavery infidelity. ” After a short incarceration at Fort Delaware, Amasa Converse made his way through the Union lines and reestablished his periodical in Richmond, Virginia.
Education
James graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1865 and in 1870 completed his preparation for the ministry at the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. He was ordained the next year by the Presbytery of East Hanover.
Career
Converse was pastor for a short time on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, helped to edit his father’s paper, which had been removed to Louisville, Kentucky, 1872-1879, engaged in evangelistic work, and was pastor at Blountville, Kentucky, 1881-1887. In the summer of 1877 he visited the British Isles, Paris, and Switzerland, publishing his impressions the next year as A Summer Vacation—Sketches and Thoughts Abroad.
The turning point of his life came in 1886. Confined indoors by a snow-storm he happened upon Henry George’s Progress and Poverty. To him it was still a new book and more than a mere book—a revelation. His thought quickened and his enthusiasm kindled by his reading of it, he turned for further enlightenment, not to other treatises on economics, but—as habit and culture made inevitable—to his Bible. The results of his inquiry were published privately at Morristown, Tennessee, in 1889 as The Bible and Land, in which he adopts as much of George’s natural-rights philosophy and theory of taxation as he was able, by his exegesis, to find authority for in Holy Writ. Few people could have read the book; its only visible effect was to bring down on the author such disrepute as a subversive thinker as kept him for fifteen years from occupying a regular pulpit. Converse, however, was resolutely true to his mission.
From 1890 to 1895 he published a periodical, the Christian Patriot, to advocate the authority of the Bible in civil affairs; he printed notes on Exodus in the New Era of Springfield, Ohio; in 1899 he summarized his doctrines in Uncle Sam’s Bible, or Bible Teachings about Politics. The little book is written as a series of discussions among two clergymen, a lawyer, their wives, and several other characters; it contains a slight tincture of autobiography and is written with simplicity, reasonableness, and good humor. Though a man of one idea, Converse was no crank. During the last ten years of his life he labored as a missionary in the valleys of East Tennessee, where he set up schools and Bible study classes and made himself beloved by the mountaineers. His last appeal to a generation too sophisticated, or too heedless to listen, was There Shall Be No Poor (1914) published by his wife after his death.
Achievements
James Booth Converse was known as the founder of the periodical "Christian Patriot" and the author of the book entitled "The Bible and Land" (1889).
On June 30, 1874, Converse married Pamelia Hopkins Campbell of Paducah, Kentucky. His wife died in October 1875 and on February 14, 1881 (or 1882) he married Eva Almeda Dulaney of Blountville.
