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    James George Frazer

    Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist (–)

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    Sir James George FrazerOM FRS FRSE FBA[1] (; 1 January – 7 May ) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist[2] influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.[3]

    Personal life

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    Frazer was born on 1 January in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Katherine Brown and Daniel F. Frazer, a chemist.[4] He attended school at Springfield Academy and Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh.[5] He studied at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours in classics (his dissertation was published years later as The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory) and remained a Classics Fellow all his life.[6] From Trinity, he went on to study law at the Middle

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    James Fraser

    James Fraser of Brea () was a Covenanter and later the minister in Culross, Fife. He was born on his father’s Ross-shire estate at Brea, which he inherited as a child; this was to cause him much legal and financial difficulty. He studied at Marischal College Aberdeen (MA, ), and after practising law for some years began to preach and was ordained around by some ejected ministers. Summoned to appear before the Privy Council in July , he refused and was denounced as a rebel. Arrested in , he was imprisoned on the Bass Rock, where he studied Hebrew and Greek, and wrote his work on Justifying Faith. Freed in , he was again arrested in and confined in Blackness Castle . He was exiled from Scotland on his release six weeks later, and again imprisoned in London. Returning to Scotland in , after the ‘Glorious Revolution’ he became parish minister in Culross until his death.

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    Mountain Rain: A Biography of James O. Fraser, pionjär Missionary to China

    June 30,
    If we were all more like James Fraser, what a different world this would be. Although this isn't a particularly long biography, it was long enough for me to see this man's heart for God, the gospel, and the Lisu people in China. For about pages, I got to walk with Fraser as he set aside promising futures in both music and engineering for the sake of missions, faced doubts and nedstämdhet and unmistakable spiritual warfare, endured the struggle of faithful evangelism that seems to bära little or no fruit, and celebrated the glorious moments when—finally!—people understood and believed and became disciples of Christ. I would've gladly walked with Fraser for more pages. But since the biography isn't that long, it just means inom will have to return to this book for many rereads.

    As I read Mountain Rain, I funnen it impossible to miss everything Fraser's life has to teach us about prayer. Fraser himself w