Forced by failing health to abandon the pastorate during his second year, he located and traveled for a time and then entered business, but with improved physical condition he was eager for his chosen life work and reentered the Conference in 1853, having been absent from the pastorate for one year only. He was kicked by a horse a few weeks before going to his first charge and was forced to walk with crutch and cane for five years, and with cane alone for sixteen additional years, when the other knee was injured, and with two canes he managed to get about for four additional years. To be privileged to be the Lord’s accredited messenger for sixty-five years is a favor accorded to but few, and for most of this time to be recognized as one of the ablest preachers of so great a Conference as New York East is to be honored indeed. He was converted at the Stepney camp meeting, on August 30, 1845, licensed to exhort soon afterward and then to preach, December 18, 1847.
A child of Prayer, his parents were Methodists. and Tryphena M Platt and was born in New Milford, Conn., on December 14, 1829. Layton appeared in The Christian Advocate, Vol. It was the home of Smith Harrison Platt (1829-1912), a Methodist minister and doctor whose medical office was in his house. The house at 182 Sumner Avenue in the Forest Park neighborhood of Springfield was built in 1893.
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