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DR. CHAPIN.
THE DEATH OF THE GIFTED UNIVERSALIST PREACHER.

He Passes Peacefully Away on Sunday Night
-His Death Sudden at the Last Though
Long Expected From a Disease that
Baffled Medical Skill- A Brief Account of
His Life and Services

Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapio died suddenly at 11:45 last night. Though sudden it was not wholly unexpected. He has been in poor health for the last two years, a loss of appetite seeming to be the principal difficulty, but the more immediate causes of death the physicians have not been able to determine. The disease at no time assumed a distinctive type. Prior to his departure for Europe last April, he underwent a medical examination with no satisfactory result, and when he returned last August the improvement, if any, was scarcely perceptible. He soon went to his country place, known as Pigeon Cove, lying at the extreme end of Cape Ann, and appeared to gain somewhat. Since October, however, his health has gradually declined. Last Thursday he seemed worse, so that his physician, Dr. James R. Wood, on Saturday expressed a belief that he would not last long ; but he apprehended no immediate fatal termination-said he would call to-morrow, but "to-morrow" never came to the patient sufferer. Last night he got into a wheelchair shortly before retiring, and at eleven went to that rest "which knows no waking." Almost immediately word was sent to the members of the family that the Doctor was unconscious ; they thought he was dying. This state of unconsciousness continued until fifteen minutes before midnight, when the sick man passed peacefully away with scarcely a struggle.
The funeral will take place on Thursday forenoon from the Church of the Divine Paternity in which Dr. Chapin has preached for so many years. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Armitage, an old personal friend, will take part in the ceremonies.

A SKETCH OF DR. CHAPIN'S CAREER.
With the death of Dr. Edwin H. Chapin, another of the distinguished natives of this State passes away. He was born at Union Village, Washington County, on the 20th of December, 1814. After a preparatory course of study at a seminary in Bennington, Vermont, he went to Richmond, Va., where he commenced preaching, becoming pastor of a congregation composed of Unitarians and Universalists. In 1840 he removed to Charleston, Mass. Six years later he took up his residence in Boston, and in 1848 he came to New York and became pastor of the Fourth Universalist Church, better known now as the Church of the Divine Paternity. This church at that time occupied an edifice on Broadway, to which it had some time previously removed from a building in Murray street. In 1866 the Society completed its present house of worship, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street. During all the thirty-two years of Dr. Chapin's pastorate over this church he was faithful to his people, and though his fame extended to all civilized portions of the world, it was here that he felt most truly at home. At the quarter centennial celebration of his pastorate he was presented by his congregation with a purse of ten thousand dollars. The manner in which his church worked hand in hand with him in the founding and erection of that great institution, the Chapin Home, is one of the many instances of the confidence and cordiality that existed between pastor and people.   
Dr. Chapin received his degree of D.D. from Harvard College in 1856. He generally preached twice each Sunday, one discourse being read from manuscript, and the other, so far at least as the form was concerned, being extempore. As a lecturer and orator, Dr. Chapin was always able and brilliant. Several volumes of his sermons have been printed, in addition to which there are also published among other works, "Duties of Young Men," "Duties of Young Women," "Characters in the Gospel," "Communion Hours," "Discourses on the Lord's Prayer," "Crown of Thorns," "The Beatitudes," "Moral Aspects of City Life," "Humanity in the City," "Truly Manliness," and "Discourses on the Book of Proverbs." 
Dr. Chapin had been for some years in a failing condition of health, and the foremost physicians of this country were unable to diagnose his disease. As he became worse he was advised to got to Europe, and he did so last summer, consulting while abroad with the ablest medical men of the old world. No permanent relief was afforded him, however, and when he came home he was still gradually failing. The physicians in New York finally decided that his disease was consumption of the tissues and that nothing could prevent its fatal termination.
Dr. Chapin leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter, besides five grandchildren. One of the sons, who is in the dry goods business in Leonard street, remarked that his father has not seemed altogether like himself for the last two years. In truth, he was disqualified by feebleness from participation in those social scenes and public occasions which he had so often graced by his presence and irrepressible wit, to say nothing of those more solemn gatherings when his outpouring eloquence moved all to tears. He last preached on Palm Sunday, March 21, of the present year. As a member of the Century Club and Historical Society, he formerly had much enjoyment, but has not attended either organization for some years past, owing to the pressure of engagements. 
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and M[[?]] Conways son dined at Eastmans and we staid until 11 oclock. Conway ad considerable to say about the English artists and their aesthetic wives the chief of whom seems Mrs. Boughton. 

Thursday Dec. 30" 1880. The weather is intensely cold 8° below zero I understood and a good deal of snow. It has been bitterly cold all day and is no less so tonight. I have been composing a picture and think I have a good start and on a good key, not too dark Waller came in with a lady who has just returned yesterday from Europe. She said the voyage was terrible. Deliver me from the ocean in winter. Waller is on the Art Committee of the Union League Club and at their last meeting they voted $750 for a picture by me. I dont think he liked my picture and I shall not be surprised if they do not take it. They couldn't do better than to take it but I told him not to consider me that it wouldnt make any difference to me and not to have it if it did not please them. I could not tell from what he said whether they are to take it or not. I had a letter from Gussie, confidential and telling me some of her trials. Mr. Chapin was buried today. What a bitter day to lay a loved one in the wintry earth. I wrote a short letter to Weir last night. Am going home tomorrow and Bouger is going with me.

Friday 31. went home by 11 o'clock train. Bowyer went with me. Very cold. Bowyer stopped to skate on the creek. The ferry still open. The Lark towed over through the ice by a little propeller. Genuine winter weather. Oscar at our house