Living words

A pocket anthology of Chapin at his most quotable: brief passages — 'jewels five words long' — gathered from his sermons and lectures, with an admiring introductory letter by Thomas Starr King. Nineteenth-century readers loved books of pulpit 'gems,' and this one shows why Chapin's eloquence was thought worth excerpting: page after page of compact, aphoristic paragraphs on faith, duty, sorrow, and hope, detached from their occasions and meant for daily reading.

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