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
life character other-worlds
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
world importance inclination
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
looks world saws
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
self world martyr
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
world immortal-life action
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
loyalty simple self-respect
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
opportunity temptation concurrence
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
desire inspires rather science seem
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
chord life touches vibrate
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
death father sea
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!
names looks debt
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
jesus heart love-is
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.
mother children heart
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.
birth influence hours
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.