'Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.' — Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Congregationalist minister Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriett Beecher Stowe), who said : "The audience at Chapin's funeral was remarkable. It came the nearest being a representation of the Church Universal I ever saw . . . Not another minister in New York could draw such a diversity of people to his burial."

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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.