Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Chapinwas an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
stars acceptance men
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
mothers-day mom motherhood
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
home institutions seminary
Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
life happiness home
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
mean men soul
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.
men land tongue
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.
summer flower rain
All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.
blessing soul disguise
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
nature men sea
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
peace integrity sacrifice
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.
running lying rain
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
prayer men answers
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
sadness thinking people
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
mother prayer moving
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.