| <tab>The Rev. G. Watt Smith left a manuscript autobiography which after his death was edited by his daughter Dr Margaret Arkinstall and published, for private distribution, under the title //From the Plough to the Pulpit: a Plain Pastor’s Pathway// (1947). Passages dealing with the Church Union controversy at St. Elmo were omitted from the published volume, and were destroyed afterwards with the rest of the manuscript. He wrote a religious column for the //Glengarry News// during his time at St. Elmo. In the //Glengarry News// of 2 May 1924, he published a history of the St. Elmo church, and in 1930 he published a booklet on the history of the pastoral charge of Vars. (//Cornwall Standard// 24 July 1930) He was also the author of the following published works: //The Way to Know the Son of Man//, //Byways of Bible Highways//, //Men and Marks of the Christian Era//, //Sandy Gordon: Missionar// [//sic//] //: a Story of Struggle// (1907), //David Livingstone: the Great Heart of Africa//, and a play based on the life of David Livingstone. He wrote sometimes under his own name and sometimes under the pen name of John Harlaw. He explains that he took the Harlaw name because he had been “reared on the battlefields of Harlaw” near his birthplace. | <tab>The Rev. G. Watt Smith left a manuscript autobiography which after his death was edited by his daughter Dr Margaret Arkinstall and published, for private distribution, under the title //From the Plough to the Pulpit: a Plain Pastor’s Pathway// (1947). Passages dealing with the Church Union controversy at St. Elmo were omitted from the published volume, and were destroyed afterwards with the rest of the manuscript. He wrote a religious column for the //Glengarry News// during his time at St. Elmo. In the //Glengarry News// of 2 May 1924, he published a history of the St. Elmo church, and in 1930 he published a booklet on the history of the pastoral charge of Vars. (//Cornwall Standard// 24 July 1930) He was also the author of the following published works: //The Way to Know the Son of Man//, //Byways of Bible Highways//, //Men and Marks of the Christian Era//, //Sandy Gordon: Missionar// [//sic//] //: a Story of Struggle// (1907), //David Livingstone: the Great Heart of Africa//, and a play based on the life of David Livingstone. He wrote sometimes under his own name and sometimes under the pen name of John Harlaw. He explains that he took the Harlaw name because he had been “reared on the battlefields of Harlaw” near his birthplace. |
| <tab>His son Lt Douglas Smith was killed in 1918 at Vis-en-Artois in WWI. One of the Rev. G. Watt Smith’s daughters, Mary, taught school at Athol, GC, near her father’s manse. She died while a Queen’s University student, and is buried in the St. Elmo cemetery. Another daughter , Margaret (d. 2001, aged 95), became a medical doctor and was married to William Arkinstall, also a physician, whose father was an elder of the St. Elmo church. At the time of the 75th anniversary celebrations at the St. Elmo Church in July 1939, the Rev. G. Watt Smith was reported to be convalescing from a serious illness and doing ministerial work at Hearst, Ont. (//Glengarry News// 28 July 1939 ) The Rev. G. Watt Smith died at Kapuskasing, Ont. (children surviving him: 2) See also James Smith. | <tab>His son Lt Douglas Smith was killed in 1918 at Vis-en-Artois in WWI. One of the Rev. G. Watt Smith’s daughters, Mary, taught school at Athol, GC, near her father’s manse. She died while a Queen’s University student, and is buried in the St. Elmo cemetery. Another daughter , Margaret (d. 2001, aged 95), became a medical doctor and was married to William Arkinstall, also a physician, whose father was an elder of the St. Elmo church. At the time of the 75th anniversary celebrations at the St. Elmo Church in July 1939, the Rev. G. Watt Smith was reported to be convalescing from a serious illness and doing ministerial work at Hearst, Ont. (//Glengarry News// 28 July 1939 ) The Rev. G. Watt Smith died at Kapuskasing, Ont. (children surviving him: 2) See also [[smith_james|James Smith]]. |
