Life of Edwin H. Chapin D.D.

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By Sumner Ellis. While living in Utica, NY, Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880) wondered into the offices of the Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate, a Universalist magazine. He was intrigued by the books on display advocating a God of love rather than fear. He met and talked with the magazine’s editor, Aaron Grosh, and with various Universalist teachers. He would come to be the magazine’s assistant editor.

He pastored churches in Richmond, VA, Boston, MA and New York City. He served as Chaplain of the Massachusetts legislature, member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, trustee of Bellevue Medical College and Hospital, member of the New York State Historical Society, and founder of the Chapin Home for the Aged and Infirm in New York City.

He received honorary doctorates from Harvard College and Tufts College, and was the editor of the Christian Leader. One of his messages given at the Independent Christian Church (Richmond, VA), became the basis of his widely circulated tract, Universalism: What It Is Not, and What It Is (1838). “Universalism,” he wrote, was not atheism, skepticism, or deism. Instead, “it teaches that all mankind will finally be saved from sin and its consequent misery.” Facsimile Paperback. 344 Pages.