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    Addresses: With an Essay on Religion by James Young Simpson
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    Addresses: With an Essay on Religion by James Young Simpson

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    First published in 1891, Henry Drummond's “Addresses” contains a collection of his sermons on a variety of different subjects and for different audiences, including his most famous and still-popular sermon: “The Greatest Thing in the World". Offering useful advice and guidance on a range of important subjects, this fantastic collection will be of utility to preachers and devotees alike, and it would make for a wonderful addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “Religion”, “Introductory”, “Love: The Greatest Thing in the World”, “Lessons from the Angelus”, “Pax Vobiscum”, “'First!' An Address to Boys”, “The Changed Life: The Greatest Need of the World”, “Dealing with Doubt”, etc. Rev Prof Henry Drummond (1851–1897) was a Scottish biologist, evangelist, lecturer, and writer. He had an incredible religious influence on his own generation. Other notable works by this author include: “Natural Law in the Spiritual World” (1883), and “Tropical Africa” (1888). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an essay on religion by James Young Simpson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateOct 11, 2019
    ISBN9781528787987
    Addresses: With an Essay on Religion by James Young Simpson

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      Addresses - Henry Drummond

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      Addresses

      By

      HENRY DRUMMOND

      With an Essay on

      Religion

      By James Young Simpson

      First published in 1891

      This edition published by Read Books Ltd.

      Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      Contents

      RELIGION

      INTRODUCTORY.

      LOVE: THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD.

      LESSONS FROM THE ANGELUS.

      PAX VOBISCUM.

      FIRST! AN ADDRESS TO BOYS.

      THE CHANGED LIFE: THE GREATEST NEED OF THE WORLD.

      DEALING WITH DOUBT.

      RELIGION

      An Excerpt from

      Henry Drummond

      By James Young Simpson

      In this chapter it is not proposed to discuss the Christmas addresses with which Drummond's name is so widely associated, which would be presumptuous, nor yet to add in any measure further details about his work among students, which would be superfluous. It is a common- place of apologetic that the final argument for Christianity is a Christian, and the present writer is of those who believe that Drummond's greatest contribution to religion was himself. As a matter of fact, all else that he did was subsidiary to the one great altruistic aim of his life, so that in considering the purely religious side of his work, it is not amiss to attempt some estimate of the man himself and his rare influence. Still, though so engaging, no one was more elusive, and consequently more difficult to portray; those who knew him best realised most the force of Dante's apostrophe

      "O Speech!

      How feeble and how faint art thou, to give

      Conception birth."

      Of course there was the physical attractiveness of the man. The erect, military figure, the frank, handsome face, eagle-eyed, but with certain winsome sympathetic lines about the mouth, the dignity of his bearing, would all have compelled you to ask anywhere who he was. To the outward eye there was no flaw ; on the contrary, you were conscious of an air of personal distinction that made it impossible to confound him with another. This atmosphere of distinction enveloped the man and all he did, and yet it is not as if he consciously tried to be unlike his fellows, for he was the most natural of men. In it those magnetic forces that differently appealed to different individuals found a wide field. A whole series of them came into play around the central hidden power of his personality. His style in dress and speech was faultless, and yet it was not that. His voice, soft as a summer evening, sweet as fine music, seemed to persuade you, and yet you knew that it could not be his voice. His limpid thought, fresh and inviting, sometimes went perilously near producing mental intoxica- tion, but even when most you had assimilated it, you were quite certain that it was not his thought. Back of every- thing was the inexpressible sense of a man who had power with God and had prevailed.

      Upon closer acquaintance every feature seemed to tone down in the utter detachment of the man. You were held by the deep-set, thoughtful, tender eyes ; the strange dignity was lost in an exceeding courtesy ; you were aware of an exquisite sympathy or grave, delicious laughter. He was so deeply interested in you that you never learnt anything about himself. He showed no trace of the past, although it was impossible to believe that he had escaped the mental tribulation that is the lot of every thinking man.

      Drummond's peculiar power resulted in his being constituted the confessor and confidant of vast numbers of his fellow-creatures. Possibly no man of his genera- tion had such an intense acquaintance with humanity, both on the vertical and horizontal planes, and yet he did not become a cynic. It has already been suggested that he answered to his conception of Andrew, but only so far as it describes a fact and not an attitude. In his dealings with a fellow-man, no one had a more delicate realisation of his confidant's personality ; he never put himself forward in any way that would make the other draw back.

      He had supremely mastered the art of living, and on nothing did he more insist than on the contribution of Christianity to the mere joy of life. He ever welcomed new experiences in any and every department of activity.

      INTRODUCTORY.

      I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during my visit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around the fire, they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture. Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask Henry Drummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew a small Testament from his hip pocket, opened it at the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of Love.

      It seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful, and I determined not to rest until I brought Henry Drummond to Northfield to deliver that address. Since then I have requested the principals of my schools to have it read before the students every year. The one great need in our Christian life is love, more love to God and to each other. Would that we could all move into that Love chapter, and live there.

      This volume contains, in addition to the address on Love, some other addresses which I trust will bring help and blessing to many.

      LOVE:

      THE GREATEST

      THING IN THE WORLD.

      Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the summum bonum—the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet?

      We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular religion; and we have easily learned to look upon it as the greatest thing in the world. Well, we are wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. In the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, Paul takes us to

      CHRISTIANITY AT ITS SOURCE;

      and there we see, The greatest of these is love.

      It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a moment before. He says, If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. So far from forgetting, he deliberately contrasts them, Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love, and without a moment's hesitation the decision falls, The greatest of these is Love.

      And it is not prejudice. A man is apt to recommend to others his own strong point. Love was not Paul's strong point. The observing student can detect a beautiful tenderness growing and ripening all through his character as Paul gets old; but the hand that wrote, The greatest of these is love, when we meet it first, is stained with blood.

      Nor is this letter to the Corinthians peculiar in singling out love as the summum bonum. The masterpieces of Christianity are agreed about it. Peter says, Above all things have fervent love among yourselves. Above all things. And John goes farther, God is love.

      You remember the profound remark which Paul makes elsewhere, Love is the fulfilling of the law. Did you ever think what he meant by that? In those days men were working the passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ came and said, "I will show you a more simple way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law."

      You can readily see for yourselves how that must be so. Take any of the commandments. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. If a man love God, you will not require to tell him that. Love is the fulfilling of that law. Take not His name in vain. Would he ever dream of taking His name in vain if he loved him? Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Would he not be too glad to have one day in seven to dedicate more exclusively to the object of his affection? Love would fulfill all these laws regarding God.

      And so, if he loved man, you would never think of telling him to honor his father and mother. He could not do anything else. It would be preposterous to tell him not to kill. You could only insult him if you suggested that he should not steal—how could he steal from those he loved? It would be superfluous to beg him not to bear false witness against his neighbor. If he loved him it would be the last thing he would do. And you would never dream of urging him not to covet what his neighbors had. He would rather they possessed it than himself. In this way Love is the fulfilling of the law. It is the rule for fulfilling all rules, the new commandment for keeping all the old commandments, Christ's one

      SECRET OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

      Now Paul has learned that; and in this noble eulogy he has given us the most wonderful and original account extant of the summum bonum. We may divide it into three parts. In the beginning of the short chapter we have Love contrasted; in the heart of it, we have Love analyzed; toward the end, we have Love defended as the supreme gift.

      I. THE CONTRAST.

      Paul begins by contrasting Love with other things that men in those days

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