S. M. I. Henry

S. M. I. Henry
Portrait photo from "A Woman of the Century"
Born	Sarepta Myrenda Irish November 4, 1839 Albion, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	January 16, 1900(1900-01-16) (aged 60) Graysville, Tennessee, U.S.
Pen name	Dina Linwood
Occupation	evangelist temperance reformer poet writer
Alma mater	Rock River Seminary
Notable works	Pledge and Cross
Spouse	James W. Henry ​ ​ (m. 1861; died 1871)​
Children	Mary, Alfred, Arthur
Relatives	O. H. Irish (brother), Horatio Nelson Irish (father), Mary Allis Irish (née Clark) (mother)

Sarepta Myrenda Irish Henry (November 4, 1839 – January 16, 1900) was an American evangelist, temperance reformer, poet and author. She also wrote under the pen name Dina Linwood.

Henry was among the first to join the Women's Crusade. From the beginning of the organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), she was associated with the national body as superintendent of evangelical work and as evangelist. For seven years, she was associated with gospel temperance in Rockford, Illinois. In 1888, she served as the chairperson of the National WCTU's Evangelistic Bureau.^[1] A partial record of this work is found in her book Pledge and Cross. Henry occupied pulpits among all denominations throughout the United States. Through her evangelistic work, saloons were closed, churches built and hundreds converted. Her published fourteen books of which two, Victoria and Marble Cross, were poetry collections. The prose works were After the Truth, in four volumes, Pledge and Cross, Voice of the Home and its Legend, Mabel's Work, One More Chance, Beforehand, Afterward, Unanswered Prayer, and Frances Raymond's Investment.^[2]