JOSIAS CHRISTOPHER GAMBLE 43 



in the manufacture of chemicals has been 

 carefully noted, but no step forward has been 

 rashly taken, the record of this successful 

 business is that it has been slow but sure. 

 Its founder was Josias Christopher Gamble, 

 who was born in the year 1776, at a farm 

 called Graan, near Enniskillen. The Gambles 

 were an Ayrshire family, but were driven 

 from Scotland, and took refuge in Ireland, 

 " when King James the Sixth thrust prelacy 

 upon the Scots." They were staunch and 

 steadfast Presbyterians, and chose to suffer 

 exile for conscience* sake. The almost 

 universal ambition of Scottish parents is 

 to see one of their sons a scholar and a 

 minister, and this was the lot of Josias 

 Christopher Gamble. He was sent, not to 

 an Irish university, but to Glasgow, where 

 he studied and graduated, taking his degree 

 of M.A. in 1797. 



In December, 1799, he was ordained 

 minister of the Presbyterian Kirk in Ennis- 

 killen, and he continued to be the pastor of 

 that congregation for over four years, until 

 February, 1804. 



On leaving Enniskillen he accepted a 

 11 call " to a church at Belfast. 



In the present day, missionaries, before 



