The Greatest Thing
In the World
And Other Addresses
BY
HENRY DRUMMOND
New York Chicago
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Copyrighted 1891 and 1898
By Fleming H. Revell Company.
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS.
| Love, the Greatest Thing in the World | 7 |
| Lessons from the Angelus | 35 |
| Pax Vobiscum | 44 |
| First! An Address to Boys | 70 |
| The Changed Life, the Greatest Need of the World | 82 |
| Dealing with Doubt | 113 |
INTRODUCTORY.
I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during myvisit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around the fire,they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture. Beingtired after the services of the day, I told them to ask HenryDrummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew a smallTestament from his hip pocket, opened it at the 13th chapter of ICorinthians, and began to speak on the subject of Love.
It seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful, and Idetermined not to rest until I brought Henry Drummond to Northfield todeliver that address. Since then I have requested the principals of myschools to have it read before the students every year. The one greatneed in our Christian life is love, more love to God and to eachother. Would that we could all move into that Love chapter, and livethere.
This volume contains, in addition to the address on Love, some otheraddresses which I trust will bring help and blessing to many.
LOVE:
THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD.ToC
Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of themodern world: What is the summum bonum—the supreme good? You havelife before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest objectof desire, the supreme gift to covet?
We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in thereligious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note forcenturies of the popular religion; and we have easily learned to lookupon it as the gre