The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust. Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes From Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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? Edwin Hubbel Chapin other-worlds character life I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. Edwin Hubbel Chapin oval eggs believe 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin soul men mean 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin lightning land men Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. Edwin Hubbel Chapin indulge-in clothes gentleman The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. Edwin Hubbel Chapin light race moving A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sacrifice morning night 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin flower summer rain Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. Edwin Hubbel Chapin felicity bliss soil 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin kindness beautiful death 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sweet death children Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life. Edwin Hubbel Chapin entering political important It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. Edwin Hubbel Chapin spiritual god order Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. Edwin Hubbel Chapin girl mother children Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. Edwin Hubbel Chapin hours birth influence There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers. Edwin Hubbel Chapin fashion doubt men A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses. Edwin Hubbel Chapin columbus would-be men 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin use practice heaven 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin immortal-life action world The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane. Edwin Hubbel Chapin future flower past
