Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — SUDDENLY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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> Rftv. :ue! F. Smith Stricken £n F ~4'ton Railway Depot. - —■ — l ——■■ » - — 6 —■ He ft • ihe Author of the Natloaal Hymn. “ My Country, ’TU of Thee M—l amed ue an Author and . ’ Ungmlet. Boston, Nov. is.—Dr, 8. F. Smith, of New to .. the cenei-nhlt-a tithor_of‘‘America,” <!7ed in this city at 4:50 o’clock Saturday afternoon from heart failure. He was in the corridor of the New England <i» jiot and was awaiting the leaving ui .1 ii .oil when lie was seized with ‘a fit. He sank to the floor in a semiconscious condition and only spoke a few ian r lieu ia te words.af terward. Gen. A. P. Martin. the Boston polite* comit: i ssion," w hoMiad just arrived at the depot on the way to hia

home in Dorchester, was one of the first to notice l)r. Smith's condition.. He did all he could to revive Him, while others summoned an emergency hospital ambulance by telephone. Dr. Smith, however. w ; as dead w hen the ambulance arrived Nit the hospital. He had evidently e-\f»ind Vviii.ii. uve uiiiuiieS“fffterthe attack; iit* liatl been very feeble foi some time, but whs able to appear out as usual. Hi* Career. Samuel Francis Smith was born In Boston on OetobtT 21. i.SOS. He was graduated at Harvard in 1529 and at Andover theological seminary in (»32 He was ordained to the ministry of Hie B initial church at Waierville, Me..ln 1334, occupied pastorates at Waierville in 1h34-'42, and Newton, Mass., In !Si2-’54, and was professor of modern languages in W’atervllle college (now Colby university) while residing in that city He was editor of the Christian Review in Boston in 1842-'4B, and editor of the various publications of the Baptist Missionary Union in 1854-'69. From 1875 to JBSu he visited foreign lands in company with his wife. He was received everywhere with notable tokens of regard. He made a careful tour of nearly all the missionary n-ios of the world. — U, ill. Works Voluminous. His published volumes haye been many and ids articles for standard reviews without i i. nnt He became proficient in 15 languages, from which tie absorbed the sentimental spirit of tlie best poets, us well as prose and liu*: atvre Mr. Smith did a large lii.ii uii ol lib oily_..work, niainly in the line of hynindiopk . his most posUipn iujjug tile A met ir-mi national hymn, "My Cob.dry. Tis of Viic-c," which war written when he was a theological student and fits; sung at a children s celebration in the Fan k mueet church, Boston, July 4. 3Sft2 The n.iu. ;.;:i) liyoin. ".The Mol ui.ii; ' Hi ht Is 1 .•• alii. was written at the same time a.a! pi. me las collections original hymns ami poetry end poetical translations have been published undei the title "Byf ic (f. ms." tHe "psalmist,' ami "Hock of Ages." He also had published a. "Life, of Kev Joseph-Grafton," "Missionary -is.-:etches," "History of Newton, Mass ." ".Hambies in Mission Fields," and contributions to numerous periodicals

SAMUEL F. SMITH.