Sluice is in Isa. xix, 10 the improjior rendering of the A. V. for "iDb, seker, hire (" reward," in Prov. xi, 18).
Sluyter, RiniAiJi), a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, born at Nassau, N. Y., 1787. He grad- uated at the New Brunswick Tiieological Seminary in 1815, and became ])astor at Claverack, Columbia Co., N. Y., from 1816 to 1813, when he died. He served also, in connection with his Claverack Church, one or two neighl>oriiig churclies for some years. He was eminent as an ajiostolic spirit, and for the numerous remarkable revivals that blessed his labors. In .some of these "the converts were numl)ered by hundreds. He wore himself out in the work. His memory, as a man of (iod, is still fresh in the hearts of the people of all that region, which
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was spiritually transformed by his labors." He had " a fine, and even martial, appearance, great conversational powers, energy, hopefulness, courage, simplicity, and gen- erosity. He was an unusually excellent singer. He was incessantly visiting his people and talking about their Souls. He was active, self-denying, in the establishment of new churches, in whole or part formed out of his own. His death-bed was a scene of great spiritual beauty and power." His Memoir was prepared by liev. K. O. Currie, D.D. See Corwin, Manual, p. 209. (W. J. K. T.)
Snialbroke, Kichakd, an English prelate, was born at Birmingham in 1672, and graduated from Mag- dalen College, Oxford, in 1(594. He took his degree of I5acholor of Divinity in 1700 and of Doctor of Divinity in 1708. He was chaplain to archbishop Tenison, treas- urer of Llandaff in 1712, and afterwards prebendary of Hereford. He was consecrated bishop of St. David's Feb. 2, 1723 ; whence he was translated to the see of Lichfield and Coventry Feb. 20, 1730. He died Dec. 22, 1749. He published. Inquiry into the Authority of the Primitive Complutensian Edition of the Neio Test. (Lond. 1722, 8vo) : — Refltctions on Mr. Whiston's Con- duct:— and Animadversions on the Neiu A ria?i Repi-oved. His great work was A Vindication of our Saviour-'s JMiracles (ibid. 1728, 8vo) : — also Sei'mons and Charges (ibid. 1706-32). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Anier. A uthors, s. V. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bihliog. s. v. ; Lardner, Works; London Gent. May. Ixxv; Nichol, Lit. Anec; Shaw, Stajfordshire ; Chalmers, Hiog. Diet. s. v.
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Small, Arthur M., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Charleston, S. C He was converted in early life, and, after an academical training in his native city, he graduated at Oglethorpe University, Milledgeville, Ga. ; studied theology in the Columbia Seminar}-, S. C. ; was licensed by Charleston Presbytery in 1854, and or- dained by Harmony Presbytery in 1857. He preached for some time at Liberty Hill, S. C, then two years at Tuskegee, Ala., and finally at Selma, in the bounds of South Alabama Presbj'tery. During one of the raids made by portions of the LTnited States army in the sup- pression of the rebellion, the town of Selma was at- tacked, and, with others, Mr. Small rallied to its defence, and was instantly killed in the fight, on April 2, 1865. ]Mr. Small's talents were of a high order. As a preacher of the Gospel, he was universally and greatly admired, alwaj's aiming to present its plain, simple truths with great distinctness. See Wilson, Presb. IJist. Almanac, 1866, p. 362. (.J. L. S.)
Small, Samuel M., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch, was born a slave in Maryland about 1803. He was converted when twenty-six, and in 1836 was taken to New Orleans, where, in 1850, he was li- censed to preach b\' the Re\'. (now bishop) N. H. M'Tveire, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. During the war he was removed to Alabama, but re- turned to New Orleans when peace was restored. He was sent by the Rev. .T. I'. Newman as a missionary among the freedmen, and upon the organization of the Louisiana Conference in 1865 was admitted on trial. In 1871 he was granted a superannuated relation, and set- tled in East Feliciana Parish, where he died, Oct. 12, 1873. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1873, p. 16; Simp- son, Cyclop, of Methodism, s. v.
Smalley, Elam, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born in Dartmouth, jNIass., Oct. 27, 1805. He graduated at Brown University, Providence, K. I., studied theology privately, was licensed by the Mendon Congregational Association of Massachusetts, and ordained, June 17, 1829, as colleague with the Rev. Dr. Emmons, over the Church at Franklin, INIass. In 1838 he became pastor of Union Church, Worcester, Mass., and in 1854 of the
Second Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. T., as successor of the Rev. Charles Wadsworth. lie died July 30, 1858. Dr. Smalley was a man of decided piety and ability, and was the author of The Worcester Puljdt, with Notices Historical and Bioyiyiphical (Boston, 12mo). See Wil- son, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1860, p. 78; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. (J. L. S.)
Smalley, Henry, a Baptist preacher, was born in Piseataway, N. J., Oct. 23, 1765, and was admitted by baptism to the communion of the Baptist Church there when about sixteen years old. He was educated first at Queen's College, New Brunswick, and then at Prince- ton, where he graduated in 1786. He was licensed to l)reach in 1788, and in 1790 he began to preach for the Cohansey Baptist Church, Cumberland Co., N. J., and on Nov. 8 of the same year was ordained its pastor. In this charge he continued forty-nine years, until removed by death, Feb. 11, 1839. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, vi, 281.