Robert Chapman (ALABAMA)

A Biography

Plot

Here is the full biography of Robert Cleaver Chapman. This remarkable man served God in the small town of Barnstaple, England, during the nineteenth century. His caring and humble attitude had a marked impact on the lives of such men as George M]ller, J. Hudson Taylor, John Nelson Darby, and Charles Spurgeon. In fact, Charles Spurgeon often referred to Chapman as, "the saintliest man I ever knew." As a man of faith and prayer and devotedness to God, the name of R. C. Chapman is known far and wide, though few are left who knew anything of his early Christian course except by hearsay, and fewer still have any knowledge of his earliest years. The few facts concerning him that follow are fully reliable, having been kindly communicated by one who knows them well—his sister—the only one who could give them. This sister, Miss Arabella Chapman, of Clifton, is the only survivor of a large family, and, though in her ninetieth year, she was at her brother’s side from the time he was taken ill, June 2nd, 1902, till he was called to his rest. Being one with him “in the Lord,” she found it “a great comfort to be with him to the last, and likewise to be among so many dear brethren of one heart and spirit.”