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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
Sabbath school celebration of Independence in Park 
Street Church, Boston, on the 4th of July, 1832. 
Respectfully, 
S. F. Smith. 
The tune of “America,” which Samuel Smith took 
from a German song book, was originally a French air. 
This French air was borrowed in 1739 by an English- 
man, Henry Carey, who recast it for the British national 
anthem, “God Save the King.” Switzerland, Prussia and 
other German States, and the United States have used 
the music for their national hymns. 
Letter and facts from The Encyclopedia Americana. 
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” 
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : 
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of 
wrath are stored; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift 
sword ; 
His truth is marching on. 
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling 
camps ; 
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and 
damps ; 
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring 
lamps : 
His day is marching on. 
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish’d rows of steel : 
“As you deal with my contemners, so with you my grace 
shall deal; 
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his 
heel, 
Since God is marching on.” 
