Additional information can be found in William S. Powell’s NCpedia article; Volume 4 of Richard Nye Price, Holston Methodism: From its Origin to the Present Time (Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1912); and Smith’s autobiography in Lloyd R. Bailey, A History of the Methodist Church in the Toe River Valley (Burnsville, NC: Celo Printing, 1986).
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Smith User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Smith’s sermons and other discourses. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the address was delivered (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Believer’s Encouragement
Conaro Drayton Smith
This sermon, on Ephesians 3:20-21, appeared in Volume 2 (1848) of the Southern Methodist Pulpit, a periodical based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of its publication, Smith was a member of the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Semi-Centennial Sermon Delivered before the Holston Conference, M.E. Church, South, at Its Session in Asheville, N.C., October, 1888
Conaro Drayton Smith
In the Preface, Smith notes that he chose not to “follow the line of reminiscence” that often characterizes anniversary sermons. Instead, he hoped to “direct the minds of the young men of the [Holston] Conference to such lines of thought and study as might…furnish them with a great fund of varied and useful information and at the same time improve and cultivate their style and readiness in the pulpit.” By so doing, he “would, perhaps, achieve the most valuable work of [his] fifty-one years in the Conference.”
