Hymns for Christian Devotion
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who need English hymn texts for personal devotion or meditation
- Scholars studying nineteenth-century American Christian hymnody
- English-language readers interested in religious literature and worship texts
- Church workers seeking English hymn material for reference
Not a good fit for
- Readers looking for musical scores or accompaniment
- General readers unaccustomed to English hymn language and religious context
- Readers seeking systematic theological argument rather than verse texts
Reading tips
- No need to read straight through; select by theme or first-line index for daily devotion.
- Read the hymn texts aloud, attending to rhythm and rhyme to appreciate their liturgical use.
- Read alongside background on nineteenth-century American religion to understand the editors' aims.
- For research, keep notes by theme, recording recurring images and diction.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) was an American Universalist minister, orator, and poet, born in Union Village, New York, and ordained in 1838. From 1848 he served for more than thirty years as pastor of the Fourth Universalist Society in New York (later the Church of the Divine Paternity), becoming known for his eloquent preaching and public speaking. His writings span religious consolation, urban social ethics, and hymnody. The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing offers gentle comfort to the bereaved, while Humanity in the City addresses moral and social questions of urban life. With Adams he co-edited Hymns for Christian Devotion, providing poetry for Universalist worship. Public information is limited; his works center on faith, compassion, and urban humanitarian concern, in a style combining a preacher's earnestness with a poet's lyricism.
