Show r IIIS SONGS WILL LIVE 1 1 SAMOIU FRANCIS SMITH WAS ATYPICAL t TYPICAL AMERICAN r tie VVtHr of 1 tiirtlm T1o fif Thee 4 0th IeNy lsed In III Ilk Merlin flgesl In IIU fametll < I tllr hi lltlef e III 0 PAIL nl concerns II hla general fame e the late Dr Samuel t 1 K Smith win com pnrnbln to the Sin I gleii > eech Hamilton r Hamil-ton whom one S great deliverance I I dwarfed everything else hn ever mildi I I Dr nngllsh who wrote I Hen Holt f grumbles from time In time I over the chance that made him famous as the author ol n casual mug but It dore not appear that Dr Smith ever complained com-plained of Ibo concentrated reputation that ram to him aa the author of Ainrlen America woe tuba great eneceai bat It was the success of avery I Try diMirvlug person who had tho gift of song In n considerable degree and I 3 who wrote tomo very Rood hymns 1 among them one The morning light li breaking which every adult American I Mho WH the child of plain parents I know by heart That hymn nnd I America Dr Smith wroto whllo ho wai n theological student In Andover All lots life ho woo n copious writer nnd trnnslator and It Interesting lo know that he was a remarkable linguist anti master or Btudent ollnaolor not too than fifteen language After he graduated grad-uated from the seminary nt Andover ho iMcasroe l Ilapllrt mlnliter had a church In Watervltle Mo and was nt Oho colon time professor of foreign languagec In Valervllln college now Colby university univer-sity In 1812 he came to Newton his mchiiMtta a pastor of n church there and for u time edited 1 the Christian ItegUtcr One of his dlsllnctlona tens tots membership of the famous Harvard f clan or 1UO reduced now to three surviving sur-viving member It was a a S3 man that Holme wrote of him In line that have appeared In all of bin obituaries obit-uaries M y 1 C 7 w IY I I I j flAMUKL PllANCIS SMITH And iheroa a nice youngster of excellent l excel-lent pith rate tried to conceal him by calling him Smith 2 Hut he I shouted a tone for tho bravo and the frco Just read on hi medal My Country of Thee It may perhaps to mid that his great = 1111II1 wn thrust upon him but It ahould 1 bo added that tots merits wcro equal to loin fame that tote renown becamo him and that ho non found any trouble In e living modeatly up to Ills reputation t He wn a Christian In all that Ibo word Implies |