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 THEIR AUTHOES AND ORIGIN. 885

JOHN S. DWIGHT.

&quot; God bless our native land.&quot; No. 998.

THIS adaptation of the English national anthem to American ideas, in which &quot; God save the State ! &quot; takes the place of &quot; God save the Queen,&quot; hears date 1844. It is by the Rev. John S. Dwight, a son of the celebrated President of Yale College, Dr. Timothy Dwight. This son is the author of several hymns, and a translator, in conjunction with others, of select minor poems from the German of Goethe and Schiller, with notes, in Ripley s &quot; Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature.&quot;

SAMUEL SIMPSON ENGLAND.

THE Rev. S. S. England was for three years one of the committee who laboriously engaged in the compilation of the &quot; New Con gregational Hymn Book.&quot; Some of the members of the com mittee wished to have a version of every psalm, and Mr. England made this very faithful rendering of Psalm vi.

&quot; In anger, Lord, rebuke me not,&quot; No. 6,

as a contribution towards supplying those that were wanting.- It was subsequently found that some of the psalms could not conve niently be adapted to public worship, and the purpose was aban doned, but this psalm was adopted.

Mr. England was born in London, and numbers amongst his ancestors the Eev. Peter Du Bourdieu, a Huguenot refugee and a clergyman of the Church of England. He was introduced to the ministry by the lamented Caleb Morris, the minister of Fetter-lane Chapel, and for five years enjoyed the tuition of the late revered Dr. J. Pye Smith, at Homerton College. His first charge as a Congregational minister was at Royston, Cambs, where he commenced his pastorate in 1838. In the year 1847 he became chaplain of Mill Hill Grammar School. At the end of 1853 he removed to Walthamstow, to be the pastor of the church formerly under the care of the Rev. George Collison, and subse-

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