Smith, James (5)
Smith, James
Journalist, b. at Skolland, in the Shetland Isles, about 1790; d. Jan., 1866. He spent his boyhood at Skolland, a small place belonging to his mother, who was a member of a branch of the Bruce family which had settled in Shetland in the sixteenth century. He studied law in Edinburgh, became a solicitor to the Supreme Court there, and married a Catholic lady (a cousin of Bishop Macdonell of the Glengarry clan), the result being his own conversion to Catholicism. Naturally hampered in his career, at that period, by his profession of Catholicism, he turned his attention to literature, and became the pioneer of Catholic journalism in Scotland. In 1832 he originated and edited the “Edinburgh Catholic Magazine”, which appeared somewhat intermittently in Scotland until April, 1838, at which date Mr. Smith went to reside in London, and the word “Edinburgh” was dropped from the title of the magazine, the publication of which was continued for some years in London. Mr. Smith, on settling in London, inaugurated the “Catholic Directory” for England, in succession to the old “Laity’s Directory”, and edited it for many years; and he was also for a short time editor of the “Dublin Review”, in 1837. Possessed of considerable gifts both as a speaker and as a writer, he was always ready to put them at the service of the Catholic cause; and during the years of agitation immediately preceding Catholic Emancipation, as well as at a later period, he was one of the most active champions of the Church in England and Scotland. He made a brilliant defence in public of Catholic doctrine when it was violently attacked by certain prominent members of the Established Church of Scotland, and published in this connexion, in 1831, his “Dialogues on the Catholic and Protestant Rules of Faith”, between a member of the Protestant Reformation Society and a Catholic layman. He also edited (1838) Challoner’s abridgment of Gother’s “Papist Misrepresented and Represented”, with copious notes. Mr. Smith was father of the Most Rev. William Smith, second Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in the restored hierarchy of Scotland, and a distinguished Biblical scholar.
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GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., S.V.; Catholic Directory for Scotland (1893), 264.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIVCopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Smith, James (1)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Virginia in 1782, converted in early youth, and in 1802 received as a travelling preacher into the Virginia Conference. He soon gave evidence of strong powers of mind, and evinced a taste and capacity for intellectual improvement.. On some occasions, especially, he was truly eloquent, and rose far above ordinary speakers in sublimity of sentiment and energy of thought and expression. He died in 1826. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1, 542; Stevens, Hist. of the M.E. Church, 3, 401, 402; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 7, 373- 377; Bangs, Hist. of the M.E. Church, 2, 307; 3, 371.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, James (2)
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Kent Co., Del., May 15, 1788. His conversion took place in 1804, and he, was received on trial into the Philadelphia Conference in 1811. He became supernumerary in 1830, but again entered the active work in 1833. He was also presiding elder of the North Philadelphia District and of the Wilmington District. He died March 30, 1852. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1852, p. 22.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, James (3)
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Washington Co., Pa., in 1791. He was converted in early life, and in 1818 was licensed to preach, and admitted on trial into the Ohio Conference. He was ordained deacon in 1820, and elder in 1822. For thirty years he rendered effective service, and when, in 1852, the conference was divided, he became a member of the Cincinnati Conference, and received a supernumerary relation, which he sustained until his decease. He died in Sidney, O., April 7, 1856. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1856, p. 152; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, James (4)
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Andover, N.Y., Jan. 21, 1807, and united with the Church in his seventeenth year. He entered the ministry in 1833, and for eighteen years did effective service, and then took a superannuated relation, which he held until his death, at Westfield, Vt., Nov. 20, 1875. He was a member of the Vermont Conference. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 85.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Smith, James (5)
a Presbyterian minister, was, born in Scotch Valley, Blair Co., Pa., Sept. 5, 1819. His father was an elder in the Church at Hollidaysburg, of which the son afterwards became a member. He was graduated at Jefferson College in 1843, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary in the autumn. of the same year. After completing the course he graduated, and was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon at Clearfield, Pa., Oct. 8, 1846. The following April he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Clarion, and was ordained as an evangelist by that presbytery Sept. 1, 1847. After preaching one year as an evangelist, he was again received into the Presbytery of Huntingdon in 1848, and in April, 1849, he was called to the pastorate of the Little Valley Church. He did not choose to be installed as pastor, but supplied the pulpit until 1855. Joining the Allegheny Presbytery, he was, soon after leaving his former charge, installed by the last-named presbytery over the Church at Bridgewater. In 1857 he again changed his relation, and was installed pastor of the Church at Mount Joy by the Donegal Presbytery. Here he continued to labor with great acceptability and usefulness among a people strongly attached to him, and he to them, for a period of ten years, when, owing to the failure of his health, he was obliged to submit to the dissolution of the pastoral relation. For the last eight years of his lite feeble health prevented him from performing ministerial duties, and he gradually declined until his death, Oct. 4, 1875. (W.P.S.)