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George Washington Doane William Augustus Muhlenberg

"What is that, Mother?"

"The eagle, boy!

Proudly careering his course of joy,

Firm, on his own mountain vigour, relying,
Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying,
His wing on the wind, and his eye on the sun,
He swerves not a hair, but bears onward, right on:
Boy, may the eagle's flight ever be thine,
Onward, and upward, and true to the line."

GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE.

Brothers in Christ! our watchword this,
What He, the Elder Brother, said-
The sign whereby men know we're His,
Our mutual love, through Him, our Head.

Brothers in Christ! Then let no fight
For sectic form, or party creed,
Deaden our love, or slack our might,

If in one Lord we're bound indeed.

Brothers in Christ! our Leader He,

Whose Cross shall bow each adverse host,

All praise to Him for victory,

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE,

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG.

Two other distinguished American authors must needs be more particularly considered, who were writers of hymns, and who also had not a little to do with awakening a much needed interest in the hymnody of our American Church, GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE, second Bishop of New Jersey, and WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, founder of great Christian charities.

Bishop Doane, father of the present Bishop of Albany, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, May 27, 1799, and died at Burlington, New Jersey, April 23, 1859. He was a graduate of Union College and afterwards a student in the General Theological Seminary. For a time he was a professor at Washington (now Trinity) College at Hartford, Connecticut, and afterward rector of Trinity Church, Boston. When he was thirtythree years old, he was chosen Bishop of New Jersey, and consecrated October 31, 1832. He began his work with rare earnestness and devotion. Wonderful growth resulted. When he commenced his episcopate the clergy numbered eighteen. When he died, after twenty-seven years of splendid service, that number had increased to ninety-eight.

Other figures tell similar stories. Taken altogether, he was one of the most gifted men our country has produced. Nevertheless, as Dr. Mahan puts it, he was "the butt of accusations as gross as those which in the fourth century caused Athanasius to be twice condemned by synods of his peers, and drove him at least five times from his home and see."

The case was this: For the good of the Church, as he thought, he was led to tread the pathway of Christian education. He had scarcely begun when the disastrous panic of