Lyons Daily News, Lyons, Rice Co., Kansas June 1906:
James Job Smith was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky in 1812.
His childhood and youth was spent in the community and amid the scenes into which he was born; but in 1829, when he was 16 years old, he went with his parents to Morgan County, Illinois.
His parents were farmers and the young man entered enthusiastically into the work and privation of the new country and assisted in opening and improving the farm and building the new home.
His father, James Smith, was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and early stamped the impress of his faith and character upon the community in which he lived and upon his own home. In this settlement Job found and married his wife when he was 22 years of age. The young lady, Miss Eva Miller, had come from Indiana and was the daughter of Henry Miller, one of the pioneers of the Hoosier state.
She knew what labor, sacrifice and privation was incident to frontier life. So the two were eminently fitted to enter successfully into the joyous struggles of young married life in the untried and unopened wilderness of this new land. For sixty-two years with increasing confidence and love, they shared together the joys and the sorrows, - the adversities and perplexities, of life until in 1896 - just ten years ago, at the age of 85 years, she died.
Seven children were born to them. Elizabeth, the first born, died at the age of eighteen, but the others, John Fletcher, Frank M, Isaac Newton, Elijah T, William Thomas and Mrs. Mary J Summers, still survive, and were each of them present at sometime during their father's illness.
The atmosphere of the home spoke the character of the parents who ruled it. They were Methodists, they believed in God and in prayer and in holy consecrated living, and they taught these things to their children who grew up to be honored members of the church of their father and mother and to become respected and prosperous members of society.
Our brother Job was not a Christian at the time of his marriage, but soon afterwards, at a camp meeting he was wonderfully awakened and converted under the preaching of Peter Cartright and joined the Methodist church.
Seven years after his marriage, Job and his family came to Cass County, Illinois where he opened a farm and with his neighbors, built a Methodist church and called it Ebenezer.
Then in 1873 he came to Kansas and settled in Lincoln Twp, Rice County, where he again opened up a new farm and with his neighbors built another church and called it Ebenezer. In the journeying of this Saint we are reminded of the wanderings of the Old Patriarch who built altars in the plain and called upon the name of the Lord, or of the Prophet Samuel, who to mark his deliverance from the Philistines took a stone and set it up for a memorial unto the Lord and called it Ebenezer, saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
He was physically strong and vigorous until his fortieth year, when he was compelled to withdraw from all severe manual toil, but he never broke down in his religious duties or services. His Master's Service was the dominent chord in his life. No protracted meeting was ever held in his charge that he was not with his pastor when it began and with him in all its labors of faith and love, and with him to shout its victories at the close. He was known by everybody and believed in by everybody. His presence was a benediction and not infrequently his power in prayer or testimony marked the descent of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Divine power.
He didn't know a note in the science of music but he was a leader in song. He knew the hymns of the church by heart as our fathers did, and sang them entire without book or instrument with an enthusiasm that united the congregation. It is said of him that he sang scores of men and women out of the darkness of sin's despair into the light of faith and heaven. He was full of scripture; touch him at any point and he would pour forth a stream of the promises of God, as the Rock of Hebron smitten by the Rod of Moses, poured forth sweet water to the thirsty people. He was apt at illustration and could relate an incident or tell a story to unfold a truth, or carry the thought he would impart. This made him a valuable helper in the social and religious life of his community and gave him access to minds which were closed to others.
The impress of his life is upon the people of the whole country, and in fields and institutions where one would think the touch of an _______ man could not come, it is found. His children rise up and call him blessed and the whole people bring their tributes of love. His health had been fairly good until he broke down 12 weeks ago. All his faculties, his sight, his memory, and he had free grasp of his mentality even through the greater part of his illness; he was able to enter into the ministrary of his surroundings and the general interests of the community. Like a shock of corn fully ripe he descended before the Reaper, at once, satisfied, sustained and comforted. His trust in God never failed and God did not disappoint him. We go to lay his ashes away by the side of his companion, that together sleeping they may await the Resurrection, in the vicinity and almost in the shadow of one of the "Ebenezer's."
Contributor: Vernon (47248868)
James Job Smith was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky in 1812.
His childhood and youth was spent in the community and amid the scenes into which he was born; but in 1829, when he was 16 years old, he went with his parents to Morgan County, Illinois.
His parents were farmers and the young man entered enthusiastically into the work and privation of the new country and assisted in opening and improving the farm and building the new home.
His father, James Smith, was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and early stamped the impress of his faith and character upon the community in which he lived and upon his own home. In this settlement Job found and married his wife when he was 22 years of age. The young lady, Miss Eva Miller, had come from Indiana and was the daughter of Henry Miller, one of the pioneers of the Hoosier state.
She knew what labor, sacrifice and privation was incident to frontier life. So the two were eminently fitted to enter successfully into the joyous struggles of young married life in the untried and unopened wilderness of this new land. For sixty-two years with increasing confidence and love, they shared together the joys and the sorrows, - the adversities and perplexities, of life until in 1896 - just ten years ago, at the age of 85 years, she died.
Seven children were born to them. Elizabeth, the first born, died at the age of eighteen, but the others, John Fletcher, Frank M, Isaac Newton, Elijah T, William Thomas and Mrs. Mary J Summers, still survive, and were each of them present at sometime during their father's illness.
The atmosphere of the home spoke the character of the parents who ruled it. They were Methodists, they believed in God and in prayer and in holy consecrated living, and they taught these things to their children who grew up to be honored members of the church of their father and mother and to become respected and prosperous members of society.
Our brother Job was not a Christian at the time of his marriage, but soon afterwards, at a camp meeting he was wonderfully awakened and converted under the preaching of Peter Cartright and joined the Methodist church.
Seven years after his marriage, Job and his family came to Cass County, Illinois where he opened a farm and with his neighbors, built a Methodist church and called it Ebenezer.
Then in 1873 he came to Kansas and settled in Lincoln Twp, Rice County, where he again opened up a new farm and with his neighbors built another church and called it Ebenezer. In the journeying of this Saint we are reminded of the wanderings of the Old Patriarch who built altars in the plain and called upon the name of the Lord, or of the Prophet Samuel, who to mark his deliverance from the Philistines took a stone and set it up for a memorial unto the Lord and called it Ebenezer, saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
He was physically strong and vigorous until his fortieth year, when he was compelled to withdraw from all severe manual toil, but he never broke down in his religious duties or services. His Master's Service was the dominent chord in his life. No protracted meeting was ever held in his charge that he was not with his pastor when it began and with him in all its labors of faith and love, and with him to shout its victories at the close. He was known by everybody and believed in by everybody. His presence was a benediction and not infrequently his power in prayer or testimony marked the descent of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Divine power.
He didn't know a note in the science of music but he was a leader in song. He knew the hymns of the church by heart as our fathers did, and sang them entire without book or instrument with an enthusiasm that united the congregation. It is said of him that he sang scores of men and women out of the darkness of sin's despair into the light of faith and heaven. He was full of scripture; touch him at any point and he would pour forth a stream of the promises of God, as the Rock of Hebron smitten by the Rod of Moses, poured forth sweet water to the thirsty people. He was apt at illustration and could relate an incident or tell a story to unfold a truth, or carry the thought he would impart. This made him a valuable helper in the social and religious life of his community and gave him access to minds which were closed to others.
The impress of his life is upon the people of the whole country, and in fields and institutions where one would think the touch of an _______ man could not come, it is found. His children rise up and call him blessed and the whole people bring their tributes of love. His health had been fairly good until he broke down 12 weeks ago. All his faculties, his sight, his memory, and he had free grasp of his mentality even through the greater part of his illness; he was able to enter into the ministrary of his surroundings and the general interests of the community. Like a shock of corn fully ripe he descended before the Reaper, at once, satisfied, sustained and comforted. His trust in God never failed and God did not disappoint him. We go to lay his ashes away by the side of his companion, that together sleeping they may await the Resurrection, in the vicinity and almost in the shadow of one of the "Ebenezer's."
Contributor: Vernon (47248868)
Lyons Daily News, Lyons, Rice Co., Kansas June 1906:
James Job Smith was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky in 1812.
His childhood and youth was spent in the community and amid the scenes into which he was born; but in 1829, when he was 16 years old, he went with his parents to Morgan County, Illinois.
His parents were farmers and the young man entered enthusiastically into the work and privation of the new country and assisted in opening and improving the farm and building the new home.
His father, James Smith, was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and early stamped the impress of his faith and character upon the community in which he lived and upon his own home. In this settlement Job found and married his wife when he was 22 years of age. The young lady, Miss Eva Miller, had come from Indiana and was the daughter of Henry Miller, one of the pioneers of the Hoosier state.
She knew what labor, sacrifice and privation was incident to frontier life. So the two were eminently fitted to enter successfully into the joyous struggles of young married life in the untried and unopened wilderness of this new land. For sixty-two years with increasing confidence and love, they shared together the joys and the sorrows, - the adversities and perplexities, of life until in 1896 - just ten years ago, at the age of 85 years, she died.
Seven children were born to them. Elizabeth, the first born, died at the age of eighteen, but the others, John Fletcher, Frank M, Isaac Newton, Elijah T, William Thomas and Mrs. Mary J Summers, still survive, and were each of them present at sometime during their father's illness.
The atmosphere of the home spoke the character of the parents who ruled it. They were Methodists, they believed in God and in prayer and in holy consecrated living, and they taught these things to their children who grew up to be honored members of the church of their father and mother and to become respected and prosperous members of society.
Our brother Job was not a Christian at the time of his marriage, but soon afterwards, at a camp meeting he was wonderfully awakened and converted under the preaching of Peter Cartright and joined the Methodist church.
Seven years after his marriage, Job and his family came to Cass County, Illinois where he opened a farm and with his neighbors, built a Methodist church and called it Ebenezer.
Then in 1873 he came to Kansas and settled in Lincoln Twp, Rice County, where he again opened up a new farm and with his neighbors built another church and called it Ebenezer. In the journeying of this Saint we are reminded of the wanderings of the Old Patriarch who built altars in the plain and called upon the name of the Lord, or of the Prophet Samuel, who to mark his deliverance from the Philistines took a stone and set it up for a memorial unto the Lord and called it Ebenezer, saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
He was physically strong and vigorous until his fortieth year, when he was compelled to withdraw from all severe manual toil, but he never broke down in his religious duties or services. His Master's Service was the dominent chord in his life. No protracted meeting was ever held in his charge that he was not with his pastor when it began and with him in all its labors of faith and love, and with him to shout its victories at the close. He was known by everybody and believed in by everybody. His presence was a benediction and not infrequently his power in prayer or testimony marked the descent of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Divine power.
He didn't know a note in the science of music but he was a leader in song. He knew the hymns of the church by heart as our fathers did, and sang them entire without book or instrument with an enthusiasm that united the congregation. It is said of him that he sang scores of men and women out of the darkness of sin's despair into the light of faith and heaven. He was full of scripture; touch him at any point and he would pour forth a stream of the promises of God, as the Rock of Hebron smitten by the Rod of Moses, poured forth sweet water to the thirsty people. He was apt at illustration and could relate an incident or tell a story to unfold a truth, or carry the thought he would impart. This made him a valuable helper in the social and religious life of his community and gave him access to minds which were closed to others.
The impress of his life is upon the people of the whole country, and in fields and institutions where one would think the touch of an _______ man could not come, it is found. His children rise up and call him blessed and the whole people bring their tributes of love. His health had been fairly good until he broke down 12 weeks ago. All his faculties, his sight, his memory, and he had free grasp of his mentality even through the greater part of his illness; he was able to enter into the ministrary of his surroundings and the general interests of the community. Like a shock of corn fully ripe he descended before the Reaper, at once, satisfied, sustained and comforted. His trust in God never failed and God did not disappoint him. We go to lay his ashes away by the side of his companion, that together sleeping they may await the Resurrection, in the vicinity and almost in the shadow of one of the "Ebenezer's."
Contributor: Vernon (47248868)
James Job Smith was born in Cumberland County, Kentucky in 1812.
His childhood and youth was spent in the community and amid the scenes into which he was born; but in 1829, when he was 16 years old, he went with his parents to Morgan County, Illinois.
His parents were farmers and the young man entered enthusiastically into the work and privation of the new country and assisted in opening and improving the farm and building the new home.
His father, James Smith, was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and early stamped the impress of his faith and character upon the community in which he lived and upon his own home. In this settlement Job found and married his wife when he was 22 years of age. The young lady, Miss Eva Miller, had come from Indiana and was the daughter of Henry Miller, one of the pioneers of the Hoosier state.
She knew what labor, sacrifice and privation was incident to frontier life. So the two were eminently fitted to enter successfully into the joyous struggles of young married life in the untried and unopened wilderness of this new land. For sixty-two years with increasing confidence and love, they shared together the joys and the sorrows, - the adversities and perplexities, of life until in 1896 - just ten years ago, at the age of 85 years, she died.
Seven children were born to them. Elizabeth, the first born, died at the age of eighteen, but the others, John Fletcher, Frank M, Isaac Newton, Elijah T, William Thomas and Mrs. Mary J Summers, still survive, and were each of them present at sometime during their father's illness.
The atmosphere of the home spoke the character of the parents who ruled it. They were Methodists, they believed in God and in prayer and in holy consecrated living, and they taught these things to their children who grew up to be honored members of the church of their father and mother and to become respected and prosperous members of society.
Our brother Job was not a Christian at the time of his marriage, but soon afterwards, at a camp meeting he was wonderfully awakened and converted under the preaching of Peter Cartright and joined the Methodist church.
Seven years after his marriage, Job and his family came to Cass County, Illinois where he opened a farm and with his neighbors, built a Methodist church and called it Ebenezer.
Then in 1873 he came to Kansas and settled in Lincoln Twp, Rice County, where he again opened up a new farm and with his neighbors built another church and called it Ebenezer. In the journeying of this Saint we are reminded of the wanderings of the Old Patriarch who built altars in the plain and called upon the name of the Lord, or of the Prophet Samuel, who to mark his deliverance from the Philistines took a stone and set it up for a memorial unto the Lord and called it Ebenezer, saying, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
He was physically strong and vigorous until his fortieth year, when he was compelled to withdraw from all severe manual toil, but he never broke down in his religious duties or services. His Master's Service was the dominent chord in his life. No protracted meeting was ever held in his charge that he was not with his pastor when it began and with him in all its labors of faith and love, and with him to shout its victories at the close. He was known by everybody and believed in by everybody. His presence was a benediction and not infrequently his power in prayer or testimony marked the descent of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Divine power.
He didn't know a note in the science of music but he was a leader in song. He knew the hymns of the church by heart as our fathers did, and sang them entire without book or instrument with an enthusiasm that united the congregation. It is said of him that he sang scores of men and women out of the darkness of sin's despair into the light of faith and heaven. He was full of scripture; touch him at any point and he would pour forth a stream of the promises of God, as the Rock of Hebron smitten by the Rod of Moses, poured forth sweet water to the thirsty people. He was apt at illustration and could relate an incident or tell a story to unfold a truth, or carry the thought he would impart. This made him a valuable helper in the social and religious life of his community and gave him access to minds which were closed to others.
The impress of his life is upon the people of the whole country, and in fields and institutions where one would think the touch of an _______ man could not come, it is found. His children rise up and call him blessed and the whole people bring their tributes of love. His health had been fairly good until he broke down 12 weeks ago. All his faculties, his sight, his memory, and he had free grasp of his mentality even through the greater part of his illness; he was able to enter into the ministrary of his surroundings and the general interests of the community. Like a shock of corn fully ripe he descended before the Reaper, at once, satisfied, sustained and comforted. His trust in God never failed and God did not disappoint him. We go to lay his ashes away by the side of his companion, that together sleeping they may await the Resurrection, in the vicinity and almost in the shadow of one of the "Ebenezer's."
Contributor: Vernon (47248868)
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