Smith, "William (0), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was admitted on trial in the Phila- delphia ( 'onference in 1802, w.as ordained deacon in 1N04, and elder in 1800, He located in 1810, but in 1825 his name appears on the Miimtes as supcrnmnerary, which relation he held until 1H32. when he became sufierannu- ated. ami so coniinued until his death at Long Hranch, N. .1.. April «, \KA. See Minutes (f A miual ConJ'eniaes, I H5 1, p. .!.",•.'.
Smith, 'William (7), a i\rethodist Episcopal min- ister, was born in Niagara, Upper Canada. March 20, l«02, was converted when about twenty years of age, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, and
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prepared himself for the ministry in Cazenovia (N. Y.) Seminary. He was admitted to the Canada Conference in 1827, which he served with fidelity and acceptance during a period of eight years, filling such responsible stations as Brockville. Kingston, and Toronto, In 1835 he removed to New England, and in 18oC was received into the New England Conference, and preached succes- sively at Williamsburg, Westfield, Charlestown, Lynn, Wood End, and Church Street, Boston, where he died, iVIarch 30, 1843. He was a good man, and benevolence, faithfulness, and conscientiousness were among the traits of his character. In doing the work of a pastor he shone pre-eminently bright. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, iii, 450.
Smith, William (8), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Kenilworth, England, Feb. 26, 1826, was converted at the age of eleven, and was licensed to preach when but sixteen. He came to the United States in 1857, and was received on trial by the Upper Iowa Conference in 1858. In 1871 he was appointed presiding elder, but was prevented from com- pleting his term of four years' service by death, May 20, 1875. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1875, p. 128.
Smith, William (^9), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was converted and united with the Mount Pleasant (Pa.) Church, Radnor Circidt. In 1856 he was licensed to preach, and received on trial in the Philadelphia Cctnference. In 1864 his health declined, and he was superannuated. He died June 7, 18G4, aged thirty-one. See Minutes of Ann. Conf 1865, p. 35.
Smith, William AndreTAr, a minister of the Metliodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Fred- ericksburg, Va., Nov. 29, 1802. He received a good Eng- lish education in Petersburg, united with the Church at the age of seventeen, and was admitted into the Vir- ginia Conference in February, 1825. In 1833 he became agent for the Randolph Macon College, and afterwards continued to fill the chief stations in his conference until 1846, when he accepted the presidency of the college. This office he held for twenty years, and acted also as professor of rhetoric, logic, and mental and moral phi- losoph}'. In 1866 he resigned the presidency, and was transferred to the St. Louis Conference. He was elect- ed president of Central College, Mo., in 1868. In Octo- ber of the same year he became tlie subject of a disease that eventually caused liis death, March 1, 1870. Mr. Smith was one of the leading minds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1870, p. 479.
Smith, William R., a Presbyterian minister, and son of Robert Smith. D.D., was born in Pequea, Pa., May 10, 1752. He graduated at Princeton, N. J., in 1773, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Newcastle, Del., in 1776, and was settled as pastor of the Second Church in Wilmington about 1786. He resigned his charge in 1796, and l)ecame pastor of the Reformed Dutch church- es of Harlingen and Shannock, N. ,1., in which relation he died, about the year 1815. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Dewitt writes, " I remember him while I was studying theology at New Brunswick, 1810-12. He was plain in his manners, a judicious and instructive preacher, with- out much power of elocution ; a faithful pastor, and ami- able and exemplary in his spirit and deportment." See S[)rague, Annats of the Amcr. Pulpit, iii. 173.
Smith, Worthington, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born in Hadley, Mass., 1795. He gradu- ated at Williams College in 1816. studied theology at Andover, and was licensed to preach in 1819. He was minister at St. Albans. Vt., 1823-49, and was president of the University of Vermont from 1849 initil his death at St. Albans, Feb. 13, 1856. He published separate Sermons (1846, 1848, 1849) :— and a volume of Sermons, with a Memoir of his Life by Rev. Joseph Torrey (An- dover, 1861. 12mo).
Smithers, William Collier, D.D., an English clergyman, was born in 1796, and was educated at
Queen's College, Oxford. He served the cure of St. Alphage, (ireenwich, for eighteen years, that of Charl- ton for five years; and was also principal of a school. He died at Maize Hill, Greenwich, Feb. 19, 1861. His works were principally educational, as, The Classical Student's Manual: — On the Particles, the Middle Verb, etc. See Allibone, Diet, of Jirit. and A mer. A uthors, s. v.
Smoke (usually V— ^i ashdn, Kairvoq; but in Gen. xix, 28 ; Psa. cxix, 83, the stronger word "Ilk3"'p, kitor, is used, like Ti'<pofiai, Matt, xii, 20). On the expression " pillars of smoke" (Joel ii, 30, 31 ; Acts ii, 19, 20 ) Thom- son remarks {Land and Book,\\,i\\) that they "are probably those columns of sand and dust raised high in the air by local whirlwinds, which often accompany the sirocco. On the great desert of the Hauran I have seen a score of them moving with great rapidity over the plain." See Whirlwind.