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many pieces then first collected. He has written in various metres and on various subjects. Excessive occupation in other pursuits seems to have prevented his muse from fulfilling all its early promise. Some of his sonnets are very felicitous, but his later works are not in advance of his earlier, and he has produced no great poem that will live, and bear his name to posterity.

&quot; Lo ! the storms of life are breaking.&quot; No. 607.

This hymn, his sole contribution to the &quot; New Congregational&quot; is No. 23 of a small collection, entitled, &quot; Psalms and Hymns adapted to the Sundays and holydays throughout the year.&quot; The collection was made by Dean Alford in 1844. It contains thirty- four pieces by himseli ; the rest are by various authors. This is the hymn for the Fourth Sunday in Epiphany.

��GEOKGE DUFFIELD.

BORN 1818.

WE are indebted to Dr. Joseph Belcher s recent work for a brief account of this hymn-writer, who is a living American clergyman.

He is the son of the Rev. Dr. Duffield, a Presbyterian clergy man of Detroit. The poet was born at Carlisle, in 1818, gra duated at Yale College in 1837, was ordained to the ministry in 1840, and removed to Philadelphia in 1852. He is a useful minister, a prose writer, and the author of several hymns.

&quot; Stand up ! stand up for Jesus ! &quot; No. 890,

a heart-stirring hymn, is that by which Mr. Duffield is best known. It is his sole contribution to the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book.&quot; It was composed to be sung after a sermon deli vered by its writer the Sabbath following the mournfully sudden death of the Rev. Dudley A. Tyng, who was called from earth in 1858, and whose dying counsel to his brethren in the ministry was, &quot; Stand up for Jesus.&quot;

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