"What is that, Mother?" "The eagle, boy! Proudly careering his course of joy, Firm, on his own mountain vigour, relying, GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE Brothers in Christ! our watchword this, Brothers in Christ! Then let no fight 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. X. 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 educaHe had scarcely begun when the disastrous panic of tion. 1837 swept the country as a devouring fire. He pulled through that destructive period, but years afterwards, as large expansion came, he was, to use his own language, "left with two most prosperous institutions, whose annual receipts were not less than $70,000, and with an unmanageable debt." He was forced into bankruptcy. The usurers howled. Concerning this period his son writes: "With utmost tenderness for the fair fame of one who has given me the proudest heritage of earth, to bear his name, I am willing, nay, I am proud, that all the truth should stand, and tell the motives, the manner, the spirit, with which he bore himself and bore it all. The imprudence of his too sanguine and enthusiastic confidence, which found its fullest penalty, in the keen sufferings he felt, for the losses it entailed on others, was willing to lose all, and looked for a milder judgment from God than man would give it here." The matter was brought before the Diocesan Convention of New Jersey, and afterwards, before the House of Bishops. The home feeling was well expressed in the words paraphrasing the old ballad about "Thirty thousand Cornishmen:" Rise we, with one accord To shield Thy servant, Lord; And down we kneel and humbly pray, God give the right award; For shall our Bishop die, Shall our good Bishop die, Then thirty thousand Jersey boys Will know the reason why. The Diocesan Convention stood by the Bishop with great unanimity, and the House of Bishops "after prolonged consideration, and the utmost delicacy towards everyone concerned, came to the unanimous conclusion to dismiss the case." The Bishop of Albany writes: "But this all over, when his innocence of crime was vindicated, and a victory of his principles achieved, he was withheld by no false shame, or boastful pride from this statement: ""The Respondent, the Bishop of New Jersey, readily admitting the purity of the motives of the Presenters in making |