James Gilchrist Lawson (1874–1946) was an American Baptist evangelist, prohibitionist, editor, author and compiler. He was born in Cleveland, Tennessee on September 10, 1874 to James J. and Margaret (Logan) Lawson. He visited the British Isles in 1900 and spent the next eight years there, five of those years as special correspondent for religious papers of London. He married Camilla Martens on November 14, 1914, in Illinois. From 1909-1922 he was manager of Glad Tidings Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois; editor at Church Publishing House, publisher of church magazines, from 1925-1932; manager of Family Altar League for seven years and an editor for Family Altar Magazine.
