The Greatest Thing in the World
Henry Drummond·1874 to 1894·98 pages
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“It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words.”
Henry Drummond · chosen by someone who read it first
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You can be gifted and driven and still miss the point. Drummond, speaking one evening in 1884: love is the supreme thing, and it is learned the way anything great is learned, by practice.
This address was never written. It was spoken once, without preparation, on a Sunday evening in 1884 in an English country house, and the account of that evening opens this volume in D.L. Moody’s own hand. Moody was tired after a day of services and asked someone else in the party to expound a passage. Henry Drummond, thirty-two years old, drew a small Testament out of his hip pocket, opened it at the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and began. Moody wrote afterward that he had never heard anything so beautiful, and that he did not rest until he had brought Drummond across the Atlantic to say it again.
Drummond’s address on love as the supreme thing, printed here with First! An Address to Boys, which he wrote for exactly this reader.
- OneThe Contrast11
- TwoThe Analysis: the Spectrum of Love19
- ThreeThe Defence43
- FourFirst! An Address to Boys59
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