James Elishama Smith

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James Elishama Smith, often called Shepherd Smith (1801, Glasgow – 1857, Glasgow) was a British journalist and religious writer.

Smith studied at Glasgow University. Hearing Edward Irving preach in 1828, he became a millenarian and associated with followers of Joanna Southcott. For a couple of years he became a Christian Israelite under John Wroe. He moved to London in 1832, and his millenarianism turned socialist. He translated Saint-Simon, edited Robert Owen's journal Crisis, and wrote for 's Pioneer.

Smith edited The Shepherd 1834–5 and 1837–8, and wrote leaders for the . In 1843 he founded a penny weekly, the Family Herald, which at one point approached a circulation of half a million.

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  • The Anti-Christ, or, Christianity Reformed, 1833
  • The Divine Drama of History and Civilization, 1854
  • The Coming Man, 1873

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