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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Age: 65 †
Born: 1814
Born: December 29
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
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E. H. Chapin
Edwin Hubbell Rev. Chapin
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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.
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Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
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A life is black, whiten it as you will.
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Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
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The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
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We have not the innocence of Eden but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
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The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the good old times,--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.
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