Today, Smith Memorial Church will be holding a special service beginning at 9:00 a.m. to commemorate its 165th Anniversary.The Church which is located on Brickdam, Georgetown, was erected in memory of theRev. John Smith who was sentenced to death for allegedly inciting an insurrection of slaves in Demerara in 1823.The epicenter of the revolt was the Bethel Chapel on Plantation Le Ressouvenir,Cheap Jerseys From China, where Smith was based. This chapel is now located in Beterverwagting.Evidence suggests that Smith did have some prior knowledge of the insurrection, information that he did not pass on to the authorities.The church insists,China Jerseys, however, he certainly did not incite it, that instead, he attempted to dissuade certain members of his chapel from going ahead with any action.Following his conviction by a military court, he was sentenced to death and was subsequently pardoned by the King. However, he died in prison three days before the instructions were received.He had arrived in Demerara in February 1817 as a successor to reverend John Wray at the Bethel Chapel.This house of worship had been erected by the former Dutch owner of Le Ressouvenir, Hermanus Post, whose initiative led the London Missionary Society to send Rev Wray to Demerara to provide Christian instruction of Africans on his cotton plantation.Despite specific instructions from Governor Murray to the contrary,Cheap Jerseys, Smith, like Wray, proceeded to teach the Africans literacy skills, so they could read the Bible for themselves.Quamina, a slave who was a senior deacon of Bethel Chapel, was regarded as the official leader of the rising. His son Jack Gladstone,Cheap Jerseys From China, was probably its most important active figure.The revolt was put down with great savagery. Some of the participants were hanged in that part of Georgetown, which was then known as Parade Ground.The case of Smith became a cause celebre in Britain,NFL Jerseys China, as a consequence of which he acquired the sobriquet,NFL Jerseys Supply, the ‘Demerara Martyr’.The 1823 rising itself, as well as the controversy which Smith’s trial aroused, gave new impetus to the abolition movement in England to have slavery abolished.Smith Memorial Church was opened on November 24, 1843, twenty years after Smith had been sentenced to death, as tribute to his memory and work.A long line of distinguished Guyanese ministered at Smith Memorial. These included Rev. Pat Matthews (1964 — 1968), Rev. Adam T. Johnson (1969 — 1970), Rev. Oscar Wharton (1978 — 1991), Rev. Clare Smith (1991 — 1993). Pastor Oslen Small, who was also a former High Court Judge and a former chairman of the Guyana Congregational Union, is now Pastor in Charge.

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Former Army Lieutenant Oliver Hinckson walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court a free man after Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday discharged the conspiracy to incite a terrorist act charge.Hinckson had been before the courts since March 2008.Oliver HincksonThe charge stemmed from impromptu statements Hinckson made at a press conference hosted by Georgetown Mayor,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, Hamilton Green at City Hall.Defence attorney Nigel Hughes,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, who along with Llewellyn John and Gregory Gaskin, represented Hinckson, made no case submissions on behalf of the former army officer after Special Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin had failed to appear in court to present witnesses on behalf of the state.Yesterday,NHL Jerseys From China, the magistrate in handing down her ruling, said she was “upholding the no case submission, adding that a prima facie case had not being established against Hinckson”.The magistrate further told the court that the prosecution had called four witnesses and they all failed to produce sufficient evidence against Hinckson so that he could be placed before a judge and jury. Special Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin was not present in court as the ruling was being made.Yesterday,Cheap China NFL Jerseys, the defence inquired if the firearm and ammunition charges would be dealt together. But Magistrate Robertson set September 3, for report on the firearm and ammunition matters.Yesterday after the ruling, Hinckson appeared very relieved since it had been 18 months of anxiety.During that period,China NBA Jerseys, Hinckson was denied the opportunity to continue studies at the University of Guyana.He had insisted from the beginning that there was nothing in the statements he made that necessitated the charge against him.According to one of his attorneys,Cheap Adidas Hockey Jerseys, yesterday’s ruling has vindicated this position.“As the case proceeded towards the end we felt that the prosecution had run out of options and it was just like a boxer waiting for you to knock him down so that he could come out of the ring,” the attorney said.