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Edwin Hubbel Chapin Biography

Edwin Hubbell Chapin (December 29, 1814 – 1880) was 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.

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The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

Among, Down, Nails, Reading, Shop, Temptation

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.

Common, Heart, Jesus, Love Is, Sending, Vital

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.

Adversity, Cups, Ends, Fate, Gethsemane, Pressed

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

Come, Devil, Doe, Hideous, Swarthy, Would Be

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Earth, Heaven, Practice, Unostentatious, Use

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Death, Advancement, Rising, Preliminary, Condition

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Ends, Faith, Fastened, Logical, Thread

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Challenges, Exertion, Loss, Man, Men

The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

Buries, Light, Night, Tired, Toil

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Established, Faith, Heart, People

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Adversity, Failure, Hardens, Hurt, Sour, Tribulation

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Bathed, Distance, Light, Purple, Smooth

Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

Artesian, Believe, Blessed, Ideas, Source

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Beautiful, Expression, Genius, Modest

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Burning, Heaven, Men, Shoes, Stumbles, Walk

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

Appeal, Beautiful, Charity, Come, Death, Kindness

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Black, Life, Life Is, Whiten

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.

Aged, Christian, Earth, Head, Snow, Time

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Blessing, Disguise, Elevated, Misfortunes, Seeming, Soul

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

Doing Nothing, Look, Looks, Man, Men, Nothing

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