The Portland daily press., 1890-03-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

DR.. Muhlenberg. By William Wilberforce
Newton, d. d. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin
d Co.; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony
DIR. Newton's volume. the third in the series
OF American Religious Leaders. gives us a
very interesting picture of the Rev. William
Augustus MuhlenberR, who in his day was a
great religious power in the Protestant
Episcopal Church of American. A poet and
dreamer, as well as profound thinker,
with rare gifts and great power of personal
attraction which would have made him
Chrysoston in the pulpit, Dr. Muhlenberg
felt that there was greater need of influence
in other ways. HE had," says his biogra-
pher, 1.-THE faculty for leadership, and the
genius for organization, and he began his
career by organizing in the city Of Lancaster.
Penn, new public school system, and
thenceforth devoted great part of his time
and energies to educational work. With his
brilliant talents there is probably no height
in the ministry of his church which DR..
Muhlenberg might not have reached; but
all this he sacrificed that he might become
"a schoolmaster,' "a teacher of boys Later
when he had fulfilled his mission in this d.
Tection, he became pastor of free church in
New York built by his sister, Mrs. Mary A.
Rogers. st. Johnland was perhaps the most
characteristic of all DR.. Muhlenberg's under
takings, althougk-lntil recently it has been.
-eegaaps, the least successful, practically, of
his ventures. 1t is called the Church Indus
trial Community of st. Johnland, and is sit
uated on the north shore of Long Island,
forty-fye miles from New York City. 1t
was founded by DR.. Muhlenberg in 1866, as a
nome for aged men, and young children of
Doth sexes. The domain consists of five
hundred or thirty-ive acres, two hundred of
which are under cultivation. The village is
beautifully located, has G magnificent grove
OF chestnuts and oaks, frontage of more
than mile on Long Island Sound, and ex-
cellent bathing for the children. There is a
pretty church, a neat school-house, library
store where supplies are sold, a garden. a
farm and dairy. There is st. Johns Inn.
the home for old men; the Spencer s. Wolfe
Home (the gift of Mrs. c. L. Spencer and
Miss Catherine Wolfe for children; the
Fabbri Home for the larger boys, and the
Boys House, memorial of little John
Rogers Chisolm. These are some. but not by
any means all. of the edifces for the use Of
the st. Johnland Community.
In the little cemetery at this place lies the
dust OF the fathers of this community. His
grave is upon the summit Of knoll over
looking the valley toward which his heart
had gone out so often in loving desire and
heavenly benediction.
AS writer of hymns DR.. Muhlenberg will
not soon be forgotten. "Shout the Glad Tt
alngs, Saviour, Who Thy Flock Art Feed
ing" and II Would Not LIVE Away" are
familiar wherever the English language is
spoken.
The Favorite Speaker. By George M
Baker. lBoston: Lee & Shepard Portland
Stevens 81 Jones) This comprises fresh ca
lections in prose and poetry humorous ma
thetic and PATRIOTIC for reading clubs
school defamation, home and public enter.
tainments, as well as all that was published
in The Reading Club, Nos. II, IS, 10 and 20.
Mr.. Bakers success in this sort of work is
too well known to need praise, and this vol