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those whom you must acknowledge to be faithful and affectionate preachers of that gospel.

He was called home, 31st Oct. 1822, in the 50th year of his

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SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE REV. DANIEL SMITH, late Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, who died on the 22d day of February, 1823.-By Rev. JAMES

BLYTHE.

MR. SMITH was a graduate of Middleborough College in Vermont. Soon after he finished his academical course he became a member of the Theological School at Andover, where he prosecuted his studies, preparatory to the ministry, with great reputation to himself, and much to the satisfaction of the professors.

Mr. Smith was licensed to preach the everlasting gospel by the Holles Association, April, 21, 1813, and his connexion with the Theological Seminary was dissolved Sept. 22, 1813. From that time he was an active, zealous and faithful mininister of the New Testament until his death.

Mr. Smith's mind seems to have imbibed much of that blessed spirit which has produced such happy re

sults in the Andover School, a sympathy for the perishing and the destitute. Accordingly we find this young hero, as early as August 13, 1814, in Philadelphia, on his way to fulfil a very important and perilous missionary tour in the most southern and western parts of the United States. It was when Mr. Smith was upon this tour that the writer of this memoir had the happiness of becoming acquainted with him. His extreme youth, then only 23, his soft and refined manners, his cultivated mind, classical taste, and above all, his glowing piety, conspired to make a powerful appeal in his behalf to the understanding and the heart of every person who became acquainted with him. If Mr. Smith had been alone, the prudence of the Board by whom he was employed might have been called in question, for having employed so young a man upon so important a Mission. Bat he was associated with the excellent and the ever to be lamented Mr. Mills; and never was there a hap pier association. Mr. Mills had all the wisdom, experi ence and firmness of an old veteran of the cross; Mr Smith had all the ardor and intrepidity of a young he ro. The impression made upon the heart of every pi ous person, when Mr. Smith first passed through Lexington on his way to the south, is well recollected. Suf fice it to say, he left us, carrying with him the prayers and the best wishes of hundreds.

At this period the pious people of the west had scarcely been at all awakened to take any interest in the grand plans at that time rising into notice, for spreading the gospel among the destitute. All that had been done in this way, was in the form of a Bible Society,

organized and scarcely kept alive by the exertions of two or three individuals. The presence of Mr. Mills and Mr. Smith among us was as life from the grave, as light in darkness. These good men pointed out to us the imperfection of our plans, new-organized our Society, and laid the foundation of many other societies of the same kind in the west.

The objects of the Mission in which these two brethren were engaged, were, first, to circulate the English, Spanish and French Scriptures in the western and southern parts of the United States; secondly, to form new Bible and Missionary Soocieties; and thirdly, to preach the gospel in destitute places. To these gentlemen were committed several thousand copies of the Scriptures in various languages, but by far the greatest number in the French language.

In this cargo were 5,000 French Testaments, 600 English Bibles, and from 12 to 13,000 religious tracts. No person who is at all acquainted with what was the state of Louisiana at that time, can for a moment hesi. tate to believe that this very appropriate attention from the people of the United States to this newly incorporated territory, had the most happy influence upon the French population. Most of the French Testaments were distributed in Louisiana.

This cargo was shipped at Pittsburgh, and consigned to various friends living on the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi, who were to be subsequently visited either by Mr. Mills or Mr. Smith. Doubtless this was the richest cargo that ever floated upon our western waters, as it was the first of its kind. This proposition we

could easily demonstrate, upon the principles of civil policy, as well as upon those of gospel truth. The man who carries with him to a frontier settlement a cargo of Bibles, and judiciously distributes them, is a richer benefactor to his country, even in a worldly-wise and money-making point of view, than is the man who introduces a new and valuable plant, or establishes a new manufactory. The one is an appeal to our physical, the other to our moral energies. The one sets a few hands to work, the other acts as a purifying and invigorating principle throughout society. The one of ten administers fuel to ambition and to all the evil passions of our natures, while the other represses evil of every description, and is a river of divine love that fertilizes the whole land. While the powers of genius have been employed to embalm the memories of those who have taught their fellow men to plow, and to sow, to erect the furnace and wield the hammer; the names of such men as Daniel Smith, who have carried the bread and the water of life to those

who were rea,

dy to perish, will be engraven upon the portals of glory. And though their memories may rot away in our world of sin, and their labours of love be branded as enthusiasm or folly, yet their deeds are recorded in the archives of ETERNITY. For "I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, write, blessed are the dead which dieth in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."

In tracing the lives of such men as was Mr. Smith, it is impossible for us to refrain asking ourselves, what

were their present and ultimate motives? Why all these sacrifices? Why this incurment of danger and risque of life? I well know how those questions are answered by the world, and especially by that part of the community who hate a missionary spirit, because they hate Christ. We are told these missons are engaged in from a want of employment, from a secret love of distinction, or, to make the best of it, from an over-heated enthusiasm, which is as blind as it is ardent. I would ask the persons who reason in this manner, if they have ever taken the trouble to read Missionary journals? Are they personally acquainted with Missionary men? Did they ever see Saml. J. Mills and Daniel Smith? Or do they believe that a disinterested sense of duty, may influence all classes of men except it be christian men? Or do they seriously suppose that a cold selfish emulation lies at the foundation of all human actions? Shall the patriot risque his life a thousand times, and when he has secured his country's liberty, be scornfully told, that there is no such thing as patriotism; that what is so called, is nothing more than cold-blooded self-love? That he, deserves at last only the praises of an ardent self-lover? Shall the philosopher employ his whole life exploring the arcana of nature, and not be permitted for a moment to indulge the pleasing anticipation that when his bones are rotting in the grave, his labours shall have made his fellow men wiser, and happier, and better? And shall missionary men be denied the influence of such motives? The felicity of still bólier and higher anticipations? The

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