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466 RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA Emit' $nethen or Commentary upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1605 and 1624; apparently the first edition has disap peared); The Differences of the Churches of the Separation (n.p., n.d., probably 1608 or 1609; it called forth a reply from Ainsworth, 1609); Par allels, Censures, Observations (1609; a reply to Richard Bernard and Ainsworth); The Character of the Beast (1609; in controversy with Richard Clifton on infant baptism); A Reply to Mr. R. Clif ton's 'Christian Plea' (1610). The library of York Minster possesses a unique tract which contains (1) An Epistle to the Reader by T. P. [Thomas Pig gott]; (2) The Last Book of John Smith, Called the Retraction of his Errors and the Confirmation of the Truth; (3) Propositions and Conclusions concerning True Christian Religion, Containing a Confession of Faith of Certain English People, Luring at Amster dam, in 100 Propositions; (4) The Life and Death of John Smith (reprinted in Robert Barclay's Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth, pp. i.-xvi., following p. 117, London, 1876). BtnLxoaaAPHY: Edward Arber, The Story o) the Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 131-140, London, 1897; T. Crosby, Mist. of the English Baptists, i. 91-99, 265-271, ib.1738; J. Ivimey, Hist. of the English Baptiste, i. 113-122, ii. 503-505, ib. 181130; J. Clifford, The English Baptists, app. x., xm., London, 1881; H. M. Dexter, The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-baptist, Boston, 1881; A. H. Newman, Hist. of Antipedobaptism, pp. 378 393, Philadelphia, 1897; DNB, liii. 88-70. SMYTH, JOHN PATERSON: Church of Ireland; b. at Killarney (44 m. w.n.w. of Cork), County Kerry, Feb. 2, 1852. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1880), and was ordered deacon in 1880 and advanced to the priesthood in the following year. He was curate of Lisburn Cathedral (1881 1883), and of Harold's Cross, Dublin (1883-88); and incumbent of Christ Church, Kingstown, until 1902. Since 1902 he has been vicar of St. Ann's, Dublin. He has also been chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland since 1889 and professor of pastoral the ology in Trinity College since 1902. He has written How we got our Bible (London, 1886; 18th ed., 1906) ; The Old Documents and the New Bible (1890); How God Inspired the Bible (1892); The Divine Library: Suggestions how to Read the Bible (1896); The Bible for the Young (3 vols., comprising Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Prophets and Kings, and Matthew; 1901-08); The Preacher and his Sermon (1907); and Gospel of the Hereafter (1910). SMYTH, SAMUEL PHILLIPS NEWMAN: Con gregationalist; b. at Brunswick, Me., June 25, 1843. He was educated at Bowdoin College (A.B., 1863) and at Andover Theological Seminary (graduated, 1867). In 1863 he was an assistant teacher in the Naval Academy at Newport, R. I., and in 1864-65 was lieutenant in the Sixteenth Maine Volunteers. From 1867 to 1870 he was acting pastor of the Harrison Street Chapel (now Pilgrim Church), Providence, R. I., after which he was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Bangor, Me. (1870-75), and of the First Presbyterian Church, Quincy, Ill. (1876,82). In 1882 he be came pastor of the First Congregational Church, New Haven, Conn., becoming pastor emeritus in 1908. He has written The Religious Feeling: A Study for Faith (New York, 1877); Old Faiths X.-30
in Net, Lights (1879); The Orthodox Theology of To-day (1881); The Reality of Faith (sermons; 1884); Christian Facts and Forces (1887); Personal Creeds (1890); Christian Ethics (1892); The Place of Death in Evolution (1897); Through Science to Faith (1902); Light in Dark Places (1903); Passing Protestantism and Coming Catholicism (1908); and Modern Belief in Immortality (1910).
SHAPE, ANDREW: Participant in the Bangorian controversy (see HoADLY, BENJAMIN); b. at Hampton Court (13 m. s.w. of London) in 1675; d. at Windsor Castle Dec. 30, 1742. He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1693; M.A., 1697; D.D., 1705); became lecturer at St. Martin's, London, and chaplain to the sixth duke of Somerset, by whom he was made rector of St. Mary-at-Hill and St. Andrew Hubbard in 1706; he became chaplain to Queen Anne and afterward to King George I.; then headmaster of Eton in 1711, in this period attacking Benjamin Hoadly, one of his Letters to the Bishop of Bangor (1717) passing through many editions; his part in the controversy caused the loss of the king's favor and the position of chaplain; he was made provost of King's College, Cambridge, 1719, and was vice-chancellor of the university, 1723-24; became rector of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, 1737, and the same year changed to West Ildesley, Berkshire, holding this position till his death. His sermons were collected, Forty-five Sermons on Several Subjects (3 vols., London, 1745); he also edited the Sermons of Dean Robert Moss (1732).
B:BLtoaasray: DNB, liii. 203, where references to scatter ing notices are found.
SNETHEN, NICHOLAS: Methodist Protestant; b. at Fresh Pond (now Glen Cove), Long Island, Nov. 15, 1769; d. on a journey from Cincinnati May 30, 1845. In 1794 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and served for four years in Connecticut, Vermont, and Maine; preached in Charleston, S. C., 1798-99; and during 1800 was traveling companion of Bishop Asbury (q.v.); he was secretary of the general conference of 1800, and a member of the conferences of 1804 and 1812, taking a prominent part in the measures for the limitation of the prerogatives of bishops; he retired to his farm at Longanore, Md., 1806, but in 1809 reentered the ministry, serving in Baltimore, Georgetown, and Alexandria, and acting also part of the time as chaplain of the house of representatives; in 1829 he removed to Indiana, and, when the Methodist Protestant Church (see METHODISTS, IV., 3) was organized, united with it, preaching and traveling in behalf of it till his death; he became one of the editorial staff of The Methodist Protestant in 1834; in 1836 took charge of the college of the denomination which was founded in New York City, which enterprise, however, was a failure; in 1837 he returned to the west to take charge of the Manual Labor Ministerial College started at Lawrenceburg, Ind., which also failed, and he then took up his residence in Cincinnati, where he continued to live. His principal publications were A Reply to O'Kelly's Apology (1800), and Answer to O'Kelly's Rejoinder (1801); Lectures on Preaching (1822); Essays on