Alexander Smellie ("Smiley") 1857-1923


Alexander Smellie (1857-1923) was an Original Secession Church minister and writer. Born at Stranraer, he graduated at Edinburgh, and after theological studies was ordained and inducted to Stranraer in 1880. During 1892-4 he edited the Sunday School Chronicle in London, but returned to Scotland to minister in Thurso (1894-1900) and Carluke (1900-23).


Smellie always had the vision of ‘a reunited Evangelical and Presbyterian Church of Scotland’, and retained cordial relations with those in other Churches. For some years he contributed weekly to the Sunday School Times of Philadelphia. He wrote biographies of R. M. M’Cheyne and Evan Hopkins, and a number of devotional works, but is chiefly remembered for his beautifully written Men of the Covenant, the 1924 edition of which was reproduced in 1975 by the Trust, and which has been translated into several languages.


[Slightly edited from the article on Smellie by J. D. Douglas in Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology.]
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Life of Rev. Alexander Smellie, D.D. - 1923 - Morton, Robert, 1849-1932
Life of Rev. Alexander Smellie, D.D. (1857-1923), by Rev. Professor Robert Morton (1849-1932), extracted from The Original Secession Magazine, Vol 29, Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, July-October 1923.

Men of the Covenant: The Story of the Scottish Church in the Years of the Persecution - 1903 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


Men of the Covenant, Volume 1 - 1908 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


Men of the Covenant, Volume 2 - 1908 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


Robert Murray McCheyne - 1913 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


In the Hour of Silence: A Book of Daily Meditations for a Year - 1899 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


In the Hour of Silence: A Book of Daily Meditations for a Year - 1906 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


In the Hour of Silence: A Book of Daily Meditations for a Year - 1923 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


Service and Inspiration - 1904 - Smellie, Alexander, 1857-1923


Why Keep the Sabbath? - 1902


Lift Up Your Heart, Four Addresses on Sanctification - 1915


Out of the Desert a Gift, A Book of Counsel and Company for the Sabbath Evening - 1917


The Well by the Way, A Second Book of Counsel and Company for the Sabbath Evening - 1918


Evan Henry Hopkins. A Memoir, Etc. [With Portraits.] - 1920


The Reformation in Its Literature - 1925