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HENRY DRUMMOND – Scottish author, scientist & theologian – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE<\/div>\n


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\u201cD<\/strong>o not resent temptation; do not be perplexed because it seems to thicken round you more and more, and ceases neither for effort nor for agony nor prayer. That is your practice. That is the practice which God appoints you; and it is having its work in making you patient, and humble, and generous, and unselfish, and kind, and courteous.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Drummond<\/strong>, Scottish author & theologian<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greatest Thing in the World,\u201d Address to American evangelical leader Dwight L. Moody\u2019s Northfield Conference of Students (Summer 1887) Northfield, Massachusetts, reprint in The Greatest Thing in the World<\/em>, New York, NY: James Pott & Co., 1890, pp. 41-42; online via Harvard University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Drummond lecture to a group of college students, reflecting on the Bible\u2019s 1 Corinthians 13]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAbove all, do not resent temptation; do not be perplexed because it seems to thicken round you more and more, and ceases neither for effort nor for agony nor prayer. That is your practice. That is the practice which God appoints you; and it is having its work in making you patient, and humble, and generous, and unselfish, and kind, and courteous.<\/span> Do not grudge the hand that is moulding the still too shapeless image within you. It is growing more beautiful, though you see it now, and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection. Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men, and among things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.\u201d (pp. 41-42)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Greatest Thing in the World <\/em>(1887|1890 James Pott ed.) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4SsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41&dq=Above+all,+do+not+resent+temptation;+do+not+be+perplexed+because+it+seems+to+thicken+round <\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201c[Kindness]\u2026How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Drummond<\/strong>, Scottish author & theologian<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greatest Thing in the World,\u201d Address to American evangelical leader Dwight L. Moody\u2019s Northfield Conference of Students (Summer 1887) Northfield, Massachusetts, reprint in The Greatest Thing in the World<\/em>, New York, NY: James Pott & Co., 1890, p. 23; online via Harvard University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Drummond lecture to college student group, reflecting on the Bible\u2019s 1 Corinthians 13]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest thing,\u201d says some one, \u201ca man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.\u201d I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are? How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered.<\/span> How super-abundantly it pays itself back \u2013 for there is no debtor in the world so honourable, so superbly honourable, as Love.\u201d (pp. 23-24)<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0The Greatest Thing in the World <\/em>(1887|1890 James Pott ed.) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=n8QQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23&dq=How+much+the+world+needs+it.+How+easily+it+is+done.+How+instantaneously+it+acts<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cNo one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be grown.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Drummond<\/strong>, Scottish author & theologian<\/p>\n

Pax Vobiscum <\/em>(1890) New York: James Pott & Co., 1890, p. 51; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Lecture\/sermon]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere does Joy come from? I knew a Sunday scholar whose conception of Joy was that it was a thing made in lumps and kept somewhere in Heaven, and that when people prayed for it, pieces were somehow let down and fitted into their souls. I am not sure that views as gross and material are not often held by people who ought to be wiser. In reality, Joy is as much a matter of Cause and Effect as pain. No one can get Joy by merely asking for it. It is one of the ripest fruits of the Christian life, and, like all fruits, must be grown.<\/span>\u201d (p. 51)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: From the publisher\u2019s note: \u201cPax Vobiscum,\u201d prepared for publication by the Author, is now published for the first time, being the second of a series of which the \u201cGreatest Thing in the World\u201d was the first.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Pax Vobsicum<\/em> (1890) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=hDQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&dq=No+one+can+get+Joy+by+merely+asking+for+it.+It+is+one+of+the+ripest+fruits+of+the+Christian+life,+and,+like+all+fruits,+must+be+grown<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but Love.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Drummond<\/strong>, Scottish author & theologian<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Greatest Thing in the World,\u201d Address to American evangelical leader Dwight L. Moody\u2019s Northfield Conference of Students (Summer 1887) Northfield, Massachusetts, reprint in The Greatest Thing in the World<\/em>, New York, NY: James Pott & Co., 1890, p. 62; online via Harvard University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Drummond lecture to college student group, reflecting on the Bible\u2019s 1 Corinthians 13]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but Love.<\/span> I say the final test of religion at that great Day is not religiousness, but Love; not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. Sins of commission in that awful indictment are not even referred to. By what we have not done, by sins of omission, we are judged.\u201d (p. 62)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: The Greatest Thing in the World <\/em>(1887|1890 James Pott ed.) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=n8QQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=The+test+of+religion+the+final+test+of+religion <\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cUnless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Drummond<\/strong>, Scottish author & theologian<\/p>\n

Remark to friend S.S. McClure in the summer of 1893, during a walk in Northfield, Massachusetts. Cited by McClure in \u201cMy Autobiography\u201d (April 1914) McClure\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, Vol. XLII, No. 6, April 1914; in volume McClure\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, Vol. XLII, November 1913 \u2013 April 1914, New York: The McClure Publications, p. 92, column 1; online via University of Minnesota & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [McClure\u2019s Magazine publisher S.S. McClure, recounting a conversation with friend Henry Drummond while both men were staying at American evangelical minister D.L. Moody\u2019s Northfield school.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the first summer of the magazine\u2019s existence, in the panic year of \u201993, I was staying with Professor Henry Drummond at Northfield, where he was visiting Moody\u2019s school. We took long walks together; and one day, when we were off in the country, sitting on the grass, I told Drummond that I did not see how I could possibly put through the task I had undertaken \u2013 that I did not feel strong enough to do it, and that I always seemed to be undertaking more than I could do. I have never forgotten his reply. He said: \u201cUnless a man undertakes to do more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can do.<\/span>\u201d (p. 92, column 1)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0\u201cMy Autobiography\u201d (April 1914) in McClure\u2019s Magazine<\/em>; online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=obU7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA92&dq=Unless+a+man+undertakes+more+than+he+possibly+can+do,+he+will+never+do+all+that+he+can\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Henry Drummond\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n