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
achievement soul endurance
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
christian time snow
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
fall order ties
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
heart wool jewelry
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
death men soul
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
death higher conditions
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
stars eye dust
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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.
pain poverty spirit
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.
faith logical thread
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
adversity fate cups
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.
men evil cures
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
life crucible life-is
Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.