Addresses by Henry Drummond

Name: Addresses by Henry Drummond
Author: Henry Drummond

by Henry Drummond

Pages: about 120
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 2.2 h at 250 wpm

Start readingThe whole book, as cards or one word at a time. 73 min at 450 wpm in Read mode.

From the opening

At the time this was typed in 02/04/2000, there were images showing Millet's "The Angelus" available on the internet at the following sites: http://www.tam.itesm.mx/~jdorante/art/realismo/1205.jpg
http://www.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/artists/angelus.html http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/a.NeoClassic/milletangelus.1859.jpg http://www.i-a-s.de/IAS/Bilder/MILLET/Angelus.htm While this list is not exhaustive (and should include the Louvre--where the painting is hung--but I couldn't find it there) there should be at least one of these active at the time of the reading.
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 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.
Paul begins by contrasting Love with other things that men in those days thought much of. I shall not attempt to go over these things in detail. Their inferiority is already obvious.
He contrasts it with ELOQUENCE. And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purpose and holy deeds!

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Addresses by Henry Drummond

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