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
believe gentleman difficult
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
spiritual humanity thrones
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
death sweet children
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.
death rising decay
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
death secret decay
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
courage strong revenge
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
soil bliss felicity
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
children essence justice
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.
eden victory example
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
beautiful expression genius
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
taken opportunity men
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
pride flesh environment
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
beautiful running lying
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.
growing-up progress thrones
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?