EV. GEORGE L. SMITH was born in North Carolina and moved to Georgia, where he died in 1865 at an advanced age. He was a member of the Georgia Christian Conference prior to the year 1838. About this time the doctrine of baptismal regeneration by immersion, taught by Alexander Campbell, was introduced, which caused a division. But he with Jacob Callahan, W. M. J. Elder, John O'Kelly, James O'Kelly, Nathan Smith, and [202] others, stood by the principles of the Christian Church. He went with his son, Jubilee Smith, a distance of eighty miles, from Stewart county, to W. M. J. Elder's church in Harris county, that Jubilee Smith might be baptized and join the church of his choice.

      Between 1850 and 1853, Rev. Geo. L. Smith organized Union Christian church in Stewart county, Georgia. And in the fall of 1853, the Conference was re-organized under the name of the Georgia and Alabama Christian Conference, at Union church. At this Conference Elder Smith was taken sick, and was unable to attend all the sittings. The next Conference was held at New Hope, in Chambers county, Alabama, which he attended but one day, being taken sick again. He was recognized as a true and faithful minister of the Christian Church, and was a "strong preacher."

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