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Born
November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and educated in
theology at Brooklyn Polytechnic, Princeton, and Berlin, Henry Van
Dyke
worked twenty years as a minister, first in Newport, Rhode Island,
from
1879 to 1883 and next in New York until 1899. His Christmas
sermons, his essays, and his short stories made him a popular
writer. His poems
reveal a classical education as well as a common touch in matters
of
faith. He became Professor of English Literature at
Princeton in 1900.
During World War I he acted as American Minister to the
Netherlands
(913-16) and then naval chaplain, for which he was awarded the
Legion of Honour. He died April 10, 1933. |
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To
desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something
which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind -
this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven
to sail for.
Henry
van Dyke
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