Dunglison.] '^Q [October. 



there were few ministers who paid so much attention to the impor- 

 tant subject of church music. 



During his residence in Philadelphia, he delivered various orations 

 and occasional discourses, many of which were collected together in 

 one volume, and published in New York in the year 1850. These 

 were, " Genius," delivered before the Literary Societies of Union 

 College, Schenectady; "True Glory,'^ a sermon on the death of 

 Stephen Van Rensselaer; "Leisure: its Uses and Abuses," before 

 the New York Mercantile Library Association ; " The Age of Peri- 

 cles," before the Athenian Institute, of Philadelphia; Oration be- 

 fore the Literary Societies of the University of Pennsylvania ; " The 

 Prospects of Art in the United States," before the Artists' Fund, of 

 Philadelphia; "Discourse on the Death of William H. Harrison, 

 President of the United States;" "The Eloquence of the Pulpit," 

 before the Porter Rhetorical Society of the Andover Theological 

 Seminary; "The Duties of Educated Men," before the Literary So- 

 cieties of Dickinson College; "The Duty of a Patriot; with allusions 

 to the Life and Death of Andrew Jackson;" "A Plea for Study," 

 before the Literary Societies of Yale College ; and " The Claims of 

 our Country upon the Literary Men," before the Phi Beta Kappa 

 Society of Harvard University. 



But satisfactory in all respects as were the various emanations from 

 his polished pen, they were, perhaps, on the whole, less eifective than 

 his extemporaneous speeches, whether casual or prepared. 



Always on such occasions self-possessed, his well-poised and forci- 

 bly expressed sentiments gushed forth in exuberance, with a frank- 

 ness and fearlessness, and with a suitableness of action that told on 

 his auditors, whether the topic concerned the sufferer from religious 

 or political tyranny, the claims of African colonization, of which he 

 was an ardent and staunch supporter, the promotion of charitable 

 and literary associations and undertakings of all kinds, or the exten- 

 sion of discovery into remote and unexplored regions. 



With so many claims to honorable distinction, it is not surprising 

 that numerous philanthropic and literary associations should have 

 hastened to enrol him amongst their members. 



In the year 1849, for reasons before mentioned. Dr. Bethune re- 

 moved to Brooklyn, and a short time afterwards was appointed pastor 

 to the Middle Dutch Church there, which was soon merged in a 

 fresh organization styled the " Church on the Heights." A new 

 edifice was built for him, and a parsonage, both admirably arranged 

 under his tasteful suggestions and immediate supervision, and in 



