Adversity Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.” quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin — Download Open image

“It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.”

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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