The welcome accorded this interpretation of the Epistle of James makes a new edition necessary. Opportunity is thus afforded for weeding out misprints. Prof. S. L. Watson, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has kindly verified all the references in the book. The words of James strike a peculiarly modern note during these days of war. A. T. R. Contents I. James, a Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ 1 II. To the Twelve Tribes Which Are of the Dispersion 28 III. Joy in Trial 33 IV. The Way of Temptation 48 V. The Practice of the Word of God 60 VI. Class Prejudice 75 VII. The Appeal to Life 91 VIII. The Tongues of Teachers 104 IX. The True Wise Man 124 X. The Outer and the Inner Life 140 XI. God and Business 158 XII. Perseverance and Prayer 177 I James, a Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ The Brother of the Lord It will be well to put together the bits of information about James, or Jacob,[1] as he is called in the Greek. They are not very numerous, and yet it is possible to form a reasonably clear picture of his personality. It is here assumed that James the author of the epistle is James the brother of the Lord (Gal. 1:19). It is hardly conceivable that James the brother of John could have written the epistle, since he was put to death as early as A.D. 44 by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:2). The matters presented in the epistle were hardly acute in the Jewish Christian world by that date, and there is no evidence that this James had attained a special position of leadership that justified a general appeal to Jewish Christians.[2] The epistle belongs to the five “disputed” epistles (James, Jude, 2 and 3 John, 2 Peter) and it circulated in the East before it did in the West. It occurs in the Peshitta Syriac Version. Origen (in Johan. xix. 6) knows it as “the Epistle current as that of James” and Eusebius (H. E. III. xxv. 3) describes it with the other four as “nevertheless well-known to most people.”