Born: Cir­ca 1793, Dud­ley, War­wick­shire, Eng­land.

Died: Cir­ca Feb­ru­a­ry 1841, Ware­ham, Dor­set, Eng­land.

James’ bro­ther was Ro­bert Wal­lace (1791-1880), pro­fess­or of the­ol­o­gy at Man­ches­ter New Coll­ege and au­thor of An­ti­trin­i­tar­i­an Bi­o­gra­phy. James served as a Un­i­tar­i­an min­is­ter at Totnes (1824), then af­ter­ward at Bright­on and Ware­ham. He was a pro­li­fic hymn writ­er, and al­so con­trib­ut­ed po­et­ic­al piec­es to the Month­ly Re­pos­i­tory.

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Lyrics

1. Is There No Balm to Soften Grief?
2. It Is Not Rank, or Power, or State
3. There’s Not a Tint that Paints the Rose
4. Through Every Clime God’s Care Ex­tends
5. There Is an Eye That Ne­ver Sleeps