THE BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATOR. ST. JAMES. James, a servant of God.— St. James and his Epistle:—This Epistle, although Luther stigmatised it as “an epistle of straw,” has many claims on our regard. It is the first Christian document that was given to the world, the earliest of all the New Testament Scriptures. It is more like the writings of the Old Testament than any other contained in the New, and forms a natural transition from the one to the other. To St. James the gospel of Christ