(whose handwriting the papers show), who was heard for three successive days at the bar of the House in sup- port of them. So decided was the influence of the strug- gle in Virginia as to procure the withholding from the Federal Constitution of all power to erect a religious es- tablishment of any kind. Dr. Smith's only publication was The Eiddrgement oJ'ChrisCs Kingdom, a sermon at Al- bany in 1797. See Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, iii, 397 ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Davidson, Hist, of Presb. Ch. in Kentucki/, p. 37-39; Gen, Assemb. Miss. Marj. 1805; Foote, Sketches of Virginia, 1st series: Life of Dr. A shbel Green ; Graham, Le^. VII ; Smyth, Eccles. Republicanism, p. 90-103 ; Baird, Religion in America, p. 109, 110; Lang, Religion and Education in America, p. 94, 115, Kice, Evangel. Mag. ix, 30, 33, 35, 42, 43. (J. L. S.)
Smith, John Blakely, a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Charlotte, N. C, July 11, 1820. In 1843 he joined the Church, and in December, 1847, was ailmitted into the (jieorgia Con- ference. After its division he became a member of the South Georgia Conference. Besides serving as pastor, he was Sunday-school agent of the latter conference, three years agent of the American Tract Society, and three years agent of the Wesleyan Female College. In 1850 he was elected conference secretary, and continued in office for twenty-two years. He died near Americus, Ga., Sept. 30, 1872. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of M. E. Ch., South, 1872, p. (580.
Smith, John Cross, D.D.. a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29, 1803. He re- ceived his classical education in a private school. After studying theology under Dr. Duncan, he entered Prince- ton Seminary and remained one year. He was licensed in 1828, and soon after began to preach as an evangelist at Fortress Jlonroe, Va. While here he receivetl a call from Portsmouth, and he was ordained and installed over that Church. Here he labored with great zeal and success until 1832, when he accepted a call to the Bridge Street Church, Georgetown, D.C. He went to work in his new charge with zeal, clearing his Church of a heavy debt, and securing its prosperity and growth. In 1839 the i)astoral relation was dissolved, and he became agent of the American Tract Society; but in a few months he was called to the Fourth Church in Washington, D. C, over which he was installed in September, 1839. Here he labored with initiring zeal and energy for thirty-eight ji^ears, and his Church was blessed with numerous and powerful revivals. He was quite successful in building churches free from debt, and still more successful in raising funds to li(piidate the debts of others. In 18()1 he offered his services gratuitously as chaplain in the Union army, and served with fidelity for more than a year. In 1876 he received an injur}' jn the street from which he never recovered, and his system gradually gave wav. He died in Washington, Jan. 23, 1878. (W. P. S.)
Smith, John Faris, a Presbyterian minister, was born in York County, Pa., Jan. 29, 1822. He graduated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, in 1842, studied the- ology at Princeton, N. J., was licensed by Donegal Pres- bytery in 1844, and ordained and installed jiastor of Owensborough (Ky.) Church. He preached successive- ly at Bardstown. Ky. ; Vincennes, Richmond, and Hope- well, Ind. ; and afterwards undertook a temporary labor in behalf of the United States Cliristian Commission in the army, wlience he returned sick, and died among his kindred in York, Pa., July 4, l)-!()4. Tlie Indianapolis Presbytery recorded the following minute: "Brother Smith was an honored and useful member of presby- terv, vvas well known and greatly confided in in all our ecclesiastical councils. Taken off in tlie prime of life, while pastor of a fiourishiiig Church, the lamentations of his people follow him to his grave." See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1865, p. 1 20 ; 1866, p. 170. (J. L. S.)
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copaj Church, was l)orii in Marllwroiifih, Ulster Co., N. Y., Sjept. 3t', l»<Oi'. Hl- was licensed to preach at the age of tweiitv-two. ami was also ailniitted into the New York Conference on trial. When this conference was ilivideii, Mr. Smith heinj; stationed at Willett Street, New York citv. became a member of the New York Kast Confer- ence. His last appointment was to the Second Church, New Haven, Conn., where his health failed. He re- moved to Warwick in July, 1854. and died Sept, 30, in the same year. See Miiiutts oj' Annual Conferences, 1855, p. 545.
Smith, John M., a ^lethodist Episcopal minister, was linrn in Itroiiklyn. N. V.. (tct. Id. IT"'.'). He was converted in the spring of IHld. and immediately joined the Church ; graduated at Columbia College in the city of New York; entered upon the study of medicine, but, becoming impressed that it was his duty to preach, re- lin(|uished that design anil entered the itinerant min- istry in 1817, and was stationed on Jamaica Circuit, L. I. He continued in this work until Se|>tember, 182(1, when he was elected by the New York Conference prin- cipal of the Wesleyan Seminary in New York city, in wliich he continued until that institution was removed to White Plains, of which he also took the oversight. From this he was transferred, in May, 1832, to the pro- fessorship of languages in the Wesleyan University. He entered upon the duties of his professorship with great ardor of mind and promising hopes of distin- gui.-beil usefulness: but his days were soon cut off. and he died Dec. 'J7, 1832. Mr. Smith was a diligent and successful student; a tine classical scholar; sound and systematical as a preacher; meek, modest, and polished as a man. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, ii, 216; Langs, HUl. of the M. E. Church, iv, 146-151. (J. L. S.)