Smith, Justin Almerin

D.D. (Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, 111., 1858), Baptist; b. at Ticonderoga, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1819; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1843; became pastor at North Bennington, Vt., 1844; at Rochester, N.Y., 1849; editor of The Christian Times, now The Standard, Chicago, 111., since 1853. From 1863 to 1868 he was pastor of the Indiana Avenue Baptist Church; was from 1877 to 1885 lecturer in Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Morgan Park, Chicago, of which institution he has been a trustee from its foundation. He was present at the opening of the Vatican Council, Dec. 8, 1869, and for some time afterwards. He is the author of Memoir of Nathaniel Colver, D.D., Chicago, 1873; Palmos, or the Kingdom and the Patience, 1874 Memoir of Rev. John Bates, Toronto, 1877; A Commentary on the Revelation, Philadelphia, 1884; The lege, A Villi am stown, Ma ., 1869), Baptist; b. at Williams town, Ma ., Jan. 29, 1822; graduated at Williams College, in his native town, 1843, and at Newton Theological Institution, Ma ., 1857; was admitted to the bar, 1845; a ociate editor Hartford (Conn.) Daily Courant, 1847-48 editor Free-soil Advocate, Hartford, Conn., 1848; a ociate editor Boston Republican, 1849; was a istant Secretary 1 f the American Baptist Mi ionary Union, editing the Baptist Mi ionary Magazine 1849-54; pastor at Groton, Ma ., 1858- 65; profe or of rhetoric and pastoral theology, University of Lewis burg, Penn., 1865-68; editor of The Baptist Quarterly, New York, 1867-69 literary editor of the New York Examiner, 1868- 76: editor of The Watchman, Boston, Ma ., 1877- 81, and since a ociate editor. He is the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Modern Mi ionary Enterprise, with an Historical Review of Earlier Mi ions, Boston, 1852 (some 10,000 copies sold) articles in Baptist Quarterly, Baptist Quarterb/ Review, Knickerbocker Magazine (1845-49), North- American Review (1860), Bibhotheca Sacra (1880), McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, Encyclopaedia American a (Philadelphia, 1886), etc.