Hannah Whitall Smith

Hannah Whitall Smith ( born February 7, 1832 in Woodbury, New Jersey; † May 1, 1911 in London) was an American influential representative of the Holiness movement and women's rights activist.

Whitall Smith came from a glass manufacturing family in the tradition of the Quakers.

1851 she married Robert Pearsall Smith ( 1827-1898 ) and was won together with him 1867 for the Methodist embossed Holiness. Then she published 1870 bestseller The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life ( The secret of a happy Christian life ). The couple Smith joined William Edwin Boardman (1810-1886), whose book The Higher Christian Life (1858 ) was considered a standard work of holiness. 1874 Whitall Smith moved with her family to England, where she supported her husband at major conferences in Oxford and Brighton. A stir it ensured their performances as brilliant speaker, not only against women but also of men, which until then in Christianity hardly occurred. Hannah Whitall Smith sat down in the aftermath of the public teaching of women as well as for women's suffrage. Also in 1874, she was co-founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which fought against alcohol abuse. Between 1875 and 1888, the Smiths went back to the USA. Hannah now retired from the active support of the Holiness movement. In 1888, the family then moved permanently to London, where her daughter Mary ( 1864-1945 ) had married the Irish lawyer Frank Costelloe. Mary divorced and later married the art historian Bernard Berenson. The other daughter Alys (1867-1951) was the first wife of the English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Logan Pearsall Smith 's son (1865-1946) was a well-known literary critic. Hannah Whitall Smith's niece Martha Carey Thomas in 1884 the first female dean of a U.S. colleges and an active suffragist.

Hannah Whitall Smith also was active in the 1890s for the women's rights movement, but she was also a sought-after speaker in Christian circles. In 1903, she published her autobiography The unselfishness of God And How I Discovered it. In it she sets out, among other things, how she came to the conviction of a Allaussöhnung. Since autumn 1904 she resigned for health reasons, not to the public. She died on 1 May 1911 in London.

Literature on Whitall Smith

  • Paul Meat: The Holiness, TVG Well 2003 ( reprint );
  • Karlheinz Voigt_ The Holiness Methodist Church and state Ecclesiastical between community TVG Brockhaus / Fountain 1996;
  • Dieter Lange: A movement breaks new ground, TVG Fountain, 1990;
  • Rudolf Dellsperger et al: On Your Word, Bern 1981
  • Karl -Hermann Kauffmann: Franz Eugen Schlachter - a Bible translator in the environment of holiness, locust -Verlag, Lahr 2007

Works

  • The secret of a happy Christian life, Herold Publisher
  • Quaker
  • Evangelist
  • Teetotaler
  • Evangelical Theologian (19th century)
  • Feminist
  • Author
  • Americans
  • Born in 1832
  • Died in 1911
  • Woman
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