He signed a 99-year contract in November 1755 to produce a weekly paper entitled "The Universal Visitor or Monthly Memorialist" for Thomas Gardner and Edmund Allen. However, the strain of publishing caused Smart to suffer from a fit, and he was unable to keep up with the publishing of the paper. Allen was a friend of Samuel Johnson, and it was Samuel Johnson, along with many other friends of Smart, who contributed to the magazine in order to help Smart keep up with his contract. In March 1756, Newbery published without Smart's authority Smart's final "Seatonian Prize" poem, "On the Goodness of the Supreme Being", and later, on 5 June, Newbery published without Smart's authority Smart's "Hymn to the Supreme Being", a poem which thanked God for recovery over an illness of some kind, possibly a "disturbed mental state". The "Hymn to the Supreme Being" marks the time in Smart's life after the mysterious "fit" was resolved and the beginning of Smart's obsession with religion and his praying "without ceasing".