1805-1862

March 18, 1805, New York, New York.

Ap­ril 27, 1862, Flo­rence, Ita­ly.

George W. Bethune (1805-1862)

Bethune grad­u­at­ed from Dick­in­son Coll­ege, Car­lisle, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1822, and stu­died the­ol­o­gy at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. In 1827 he be­came pas­tor of the Re­formed Dutch Church in Rine­beck, New York. In 1830, he moved to Uti­ca, New York; to Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, in 1834; and to Brook­lyn Heights, New York, in 1850. He was of­fered the posts of chan­cel­lor of New York Uni­ver­si­ty, and pro­vost of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia, both of which he de­clined. His works in­clude:

A. R. Van Nest ed­it­ed Beth­une’s Life and Let­ters in 1867.

  1. Almighty Spir­it, The
  2. Come, Let Us Sing of Je­sus
  3. Full Ma­ny a Year Has Sped
  4. It Is Not Death to Die
  5. Farewell to Thee, Bro­ther
  6. Joy and Glad­ness, Joy and Glad­ness
  7. Light of the Im­mor­tal Fa­ther’s Glo­ry
  8. O for the Hap­py Hour
  9. O Je­sus, When I Think of Thee
  10. O Thou Who in Jor­dan
  11. There Is No Name So Sweet on Earth
  12. Tossed up­on Life’s Rag­ing Bil­low
  13. We Come, We Come with Loud Ac­claim
  14. When Time Seems Short and Death Is Near
  1. It Is Not Death to Die
Beth­une’s bur­i­al place