Alexander Smellie
1854-1923

The Hour of Silence
 

Graham Scroggie said of Smellie (pronounced 'Smiley') "He was perhaps the greatest devotional writer of his generation, and by reason of his spiritual penetration, the literary force and beauty of his style, together with the simplicity and profoundness of his thought — he was read in all sections of the Christian church, and was loved as well as read."