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Henry Van Dyke

Born

in Germantown, Pennsylvania, The United States

November 10, 1852

Died

April 10, 1933

Genre

Fiction, Christian, Poetry

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Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899-1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913-16).

Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). As President Wilson's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913, Van Dyke was a first-hand witness to the outbreak of World War I and its progress, and was a key player in the President's diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict.

Not to be confused with his father, Henry J. Van Dyke (1822-18 ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 10,692 ratings · 1,775 reviews · 919 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Story of the Other Wise Man 4.24 avg rating — 3,463 ratings — published 1895 — 422 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke, Elizabeth Shippen Green (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 3,422 ratings — published 1887 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Christmas Tree 3.21 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1897 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spirit of Christmas 3.80 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1905 — 166 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past: Includes Ebook by Henry Van Dyke, Hans Christian Andersen, L.M. Montgomery 3.89 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Flower 3.62 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1902 — 198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Word A Christmas Legend of Long Ago 3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1898 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sad Shepherd: A Christmas Story (1911) 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1911 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Christmas Tree and Other Stories 3.53 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1905 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poems of Henry Van Dyke 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
― Henry Van Dyke

tags: love, time

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“Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to remember the weaknesses and lonliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and to ask yourself if you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear on their hearts; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thougts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open? Are you willing to do these things for a day? Then you are ready to keep Christmas!”
― Henry Van Dyke

tags: christmas

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December 2019 Short Story/Novella Poll

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote, 48 pages, 1956

118 votes, 38.7%

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 30 pages, 1853

60 votes, 19.7%

The Machine Stops E.M. Forster, 48 pages, 1909

37 votes, 12.1%

The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson, 56 pages, 1891

34 votes, 11.1%

Shooting an Elephant Title Story by George Orwell, ? pages, 1936

29 votes, 9.5%

The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke, most editions have this at well under 100 pages, 1895

27 votes, 8.9%

305 total votes

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