Smith, John (7)
Smith, John
an English Wesleyan minister, styled “the revivalist,” was born at Cudworth, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, January 12, 1794. Although trained religiously, he became profane, a gambler, and a pugilist. He was converted in 1812, and entered an academy at Leeds, where he enjoyed the instruction of David Stoner. He was received into the ministry in 1816, and labored on the York, Barnard Castle, Brighton, Windsor, Frome, Nottingham, Preston, Lincoln, and Sheffield Circuits. Like William Carvosso and Bramwell, he was a man of intense zeal and mighty faith. On his circuits the whole vicinity was stirred, the worst men were smitten, and hundreds were. added to the Church. His chapels were crowded, and his prayer-meetings were like the day of Pentecost. But his work wore him out, and in Sheffield, his last circuit, he died in his prime, November 3, 1831. See Treffrey, Memoirs of Reverend John Smith (Lond. 1832, 12to; 2d ed. with introduction by Dr. Dixon); Stevens, Hist. of Methodism, 3:285 sq; 468; Smith, Hist. of Wesleyan Methodism, 3:33, 153, 154; Minutes of the British Conference, 1832; West, Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers, page 33 sq.
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Smith, John (1)
an English clergyman, was born in Warwickshire in 1563, and elected in 1577 a scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford, where he also obtained a fellowship. He succeeded Dr. Lancelot Andrews as lecturer in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. In September, 1592, he was presented to the living of Clavering, Essex. He died in November, 1616. His works are, The Essex Dove, etc., in three treatises (1629, 4to): -Exposition on the Creed, and Explanation of the Articles of our Christian Faith, in seventy-three sermons (1632, fol.).
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Smith, John (2)
an English divine and instructor, was born in Achurch, near Oundle, in 1618. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1636, and in 1644 was chosen fellow of Queen’s College. He died Aug. 7, 1652. Certain treatises by Mr. Smith were published by Dr. John Worthington (Cambridge, 1660, 4to) under the title of Select Discourses. A second edition, corrected, with a funeral sermon by Patrick, was published at Cambridge (1673, 4to). One of the discourses, that Upon Prophecy, was translated into Latin by Le Clerc, and prefixed to his Commentary on the Prophets (1731). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. s.v.; Hook, Ecclesiastical Biography, s.v.; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v. a learned English divine, was born in Lowther, Westmoreland, Nov. 10, 1659. After being under several teachers, he was for some time at the school of Appleby, whence he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge, June 11, 1674. He took his degree of A.B. in 1677, and of A.M. in 1681, and was also ordained both deacon and priest. In the same year he was invited to Durham by Dr. Denis Granville, and in July, 1682, was admitted a minor canon of Durham. About the same time he was collated to the curacy of Croxdale, and in July, 1684, to the living of Witton Gilbert. In 1686 he went to Madrid as chaplain to lord Lansdowne, the English ambassador. In 1694 Crew, bishop of Durham, appointed him his domestic chaplain, collated him to the rectory and hospital of Gateshead in June, 1695, and to a prebend of Durham in September following. In 1696 he was created D.D. at Cambridge, and treasurer of Durham in 1699, to which bishop Crew, in July, 1704, added the rectory of Bishop Wearmouth. He died at Cambridge, July 30, 1715. Dr. Smith was learned, generous, and strict in the duties of his profession. Besides his edition of Bede’s History, he published four single Sermons. See Allibone, . Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.; Biog. Brit.; Hutchinson, Durham, 1, 61; Nicholson, Letters, 1, 224; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.
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Smith, John (7)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Hopewell, Pa., May 8, 1776. He was carefully educated by his parents, graduated at Dickinson College; studied theology privately at Princeton, N.J.; was licensed by New Brunswick Presbytery in 1809;. and ordained by Oneida Presbytery as pastor of the Church at Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1810, where, for nearly a quarter of a century he went in and out as a true shepherd before his people. In 1834 he became principal of Cherry Valley Academy, at the same time preaching in the church at Middlefield, a distance of six miles. In 1836 he was stated supply of the Church at Painted Post, in Chemung Presbytery; in 1840 of the Church in Hammondsport, in Bath Presbytery, where he preached as opportunity and his increasing years would permit, until 1855, when he removed to Pen Yan and took up his residence with his son-in-law. He died here, June 17, 1860. On the announcement of Mr. Smith’s death, the members of Bath Presbytery held a meeting and passed resolutions in view of his great worth as a Christian and minister. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1862, p. 195. (J.L.S.) a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Kirby, Vt., in 1808. He was converted and joined the Church in 1824, was licensed to preach in 1827, and joined the New England Conference in 1829. He labored for about twenty years in the active ministry, and then, compelled by ill health, took a supernumerary relation, which he held until his death, March 27, 1872, in West Burke. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1873, p. 58.