Chapman grad­u­at­ed from Lake For­est Col­lege in 1879 and Lane Sem­in­ary, Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, in 1882. Or­dained a Pres­by­ter­ian min­is­ter, his first pas­tor­ate was split be­tween two church­es—in Lib­er­ty, In­di­a­na, and Coll­ege Cor­ner, Ohio. In 1883 he be­came the min­is­ter of the Old Sar­a­toga Dutch Re­formed Church in Schuy­ler­ville, New York. In 1885, he moved to the First Re­formed Church in Al­ba­ny, New York, and in 1890 to the Beth­a­ny Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. He was one of the found­ers of the Wi­no­na Lake Bi­ble Con­fer­ence and, in 1900, tra­veled to the Ho­ly Land. His works in­clude:

• Christian Hymns No. 1, with Will­iam Phill­ips Hall (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall Mack Com­pa­ny, 1899)

• Emurian, pp. 69-72
• Erickson, p. 261
• Hustad, p. 219
• Reynolds, p. 266

1. Hail to the Sav­ior, Whose Pas­sion Is Wait­ing
2. Inside the Veil
3. Jesus Is All in All to Me
4. Jesus, What a Friend for Sin­ners
5. Judgment Day Is Com­ing On, The
6. Just to See Je­sus, Whose Love Is So Pre­cious
7. Living He Loved me
8. My Sins Like a Chain Have Fet­tered My Soul
9. My Soul Cri­eth Out for the Spir­it
10. Name of All the Names the Dear­est
11. One Day
12. Savior Has Died to Re­deem You, The
13. There’ a Full Re­ward Await­ing Us in Glo­ry
14. ’Tis Je­sus
15. When We Go Home We Know Not When