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rerning which, see Maliill Xnwil. p. 8.jO s().), con-

uiitute all of tbe works of Smaragdus which have been prejierved to us.

2. A friend and pn|>il of Iknedict of Aniane. whoso real name was Ardo. Having witnessed the death of H<nedici, he was ap|»ointe.l to write ids biograpliv (see the work, liV/i ,V. Ilennlicti Aniiin,-ni>ig, iu .Mabillon, Artii .S.S. <). .S. li. SiBc. iv. pt. i, p. 191 s.|. ; and .Migne, [lU ciii. p. 3.>t »4j.). Smaragdus died in Mill, aged sixlv yearn. " j

3. The ablKit of a monastery at Lllneberg. Snxony, which was founded in 972 by duke lleruiann Itillung, i"i that b.- eould not belong to a perioil earlier than about A.I). liMM). Nothing is known witli regard to iiierarv laUir performed by his hand, though he may be tbe au- thor of a ttriiminiilirn .l/,y,.;- j». Comnnnt. in Ihmiittnn, from which Mabillon gives citations (Annul, p. ;j.'>8 sij.), and which is Munetimes ascribed to Smaragdus No. 1. .Se D'Achcry, SpkiUff. i, 23K.— llereog. UuU-Fm-yklup. \ ». v.

Smart, James P., a Presbyterian minister, was born iu lluiuiuu<loM, I'a.. .luly 1 i, \h\\. He received A careful home Irainiiig, j;racbinled in .lefTerson College, r«., htudied divinity in the As*m iaie Semiiiarv in ( an- OD»burg, was licensed by the Chartiers I'resbvterv antj

ordained by the Jliami Presbytery in 1839, and his first and only charge was Massey's Creek, O. Here he la- bored with true apostolic zeal antl earnestness, and died Feb. "28. 18(;i. Mr. .Smart was a man of vigorous mind and noble heart. He was for many years stated clerk of the Xenia Prcslyytery. See Wilson, I'resb. Hist. Al- manac, 18G2, J). 235. (J. L. S.)

Smart, John G., D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born in lluntiiigilon. Pa.. -Vug. 3, 1804. He graduated at .lelTerson College, Pa., in 182(5, studied theology pri- vately, was licensed by the Associate Presbytery of Philadelphia. Aug. 17, i82t), and ordained pastor of the .-Vssociate Church in Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1829, where he continued to labor until 1837, when he re- moved to Baltimore, Md., and in 1838 was installed pas- tor of the Church in that city. This relation was dis- solved in 1850, and he removed to Cambridge, N. Y., where he continued witluuit a charge, but was engaged in preaching almost constantly in the many vacancies which occurred in the Presbytery of Camliridge, to which he belonged. He died July 18, 18G2. Dr. Smart was a man of very su|)erior mental power. He was well skilled in the languages, particidarly the Latin, and while a student of theology edited the Orativns of Cicero for Tower & Hogan, publishers in Philadel- phia. His distinguishing characteristic was his ac- quaintance with the rules of Church order. Such was his reputation as an ecclesiastical disci])linarian tliat he w.ts cliosen by the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church as chairman of the committee to draft a book of discipline. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. A l- manac, 18(13, p. 3(i3 ; The Evwifjelical Rejwsitory, s. v.; AUiljone. J)irl. of Brit, ami A mer. A uth. s. v. (J. L. S.)

Smectymnuus, an answer to bishop Hall's re- monstrance to Parliament in defence of his book Epis- copacy of Divine liii/ht. The name of the treatise is fictitious, made up of tlie initial letters of the authors, viz. Stephen Marshal, Edward Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcoinen, and William Spurston. When the bishop replied to their book, these divines published a vindication of their answer to the Hmnhle Remon- strance. This being an appeal to the legislature on both sides, may be supposed to contain the merits of the controversy. The debate was upon these two heads — (1) of tlio anliipiily of liturgies, or forms of prayer; (2) of the ajiostolical institution of diocesan ejjiscopacy. — Eadie, Eccles. Cyclop, s. v.

Smell (Bil?3 or n"''}, /rayrance ; ^."13, stench). Jacob said to his sons, after the slaughter of the She- chemites (Gen. xxxiv, 30). '• Ye have troubled me, to make me to stink among the inhaliiiaiits of the land" — Ye have given me an ill scent, or smell, among this people. The Israelites, in a similar manner, complained to Moses and Aaron ( Exod. v, 21 ), "The Lord look upon you, and jntlge, because you have made our savor to be ab- horred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants." This manner of speaking occurs frequently in the Hebrew. In a contrary sense, Paul says (2 Cor. ii. 1."), IC), '• We are unto (iod a sweet savor of Christ in Ibem that are saved and in them that perish ; to the one we are the savor of death unto death, an<l to the other the savor of life unto life." In the sacrifices of the old law, the smell of the burnt-offerings is represented in Seriptiiro as agreeable to (iod ((ien. viii, 21), "And thou slialt burn (lie whol(' ram upon the altar; it is a biiriit-olleriug unto the Lord : it is a sweet savor, an of- fering made by fire unto the Lord." The same thing, by analogy, is .said of (irayer (Psa. cxli, 2), "Lot my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lift- ing-up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." So John, in allusion to this service of the Old Test., rejiresents the twenty-four elders with "golden vials full of odors,

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