Smith, George Adam. The Life of Henry Drummond. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899. Second Edition. [11643]
Red cloth, a bit faded & edge-worn, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, gift inscription on ffep dated 1900. Portrait of Drummond as frontispiece, xii, [2], 506 clean pp., publisher's catalogue of books by Drummond. Several quotations are written on the verso of the dedication page, in the same hand as the gift inscription. Good. Hardcover.
Henry Drummond (1851-18987, b. Stirling, Scotland; d. Tunbridge Wells, England. A Free Church of Scotland minister, he became a close friend of Dwight L Moody and assisted him in his religious campaigns that led to a religious revival on an unprecedented scale. Drummond organized and addressed many meetings, especially of young people. He was a preacher of extraordinary power and sincerity.
Drummond was an advocate for theistic evolution, and his book Natural Law in the Spiritual World sought to reconcile Darwin and Christianity. His essay The Greatest Thing in the World is still widely published as a Christian classic.
"Drummond considered that his own major contribution had been in 1884-94, when he lectured to Glasgow divinity students as Professor of Natural Science on weekdays, and to Edinburgh students at weekends. Most summers he travelled extensively, lecturing in the USA in universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton; at Chautauqua; and also in Germany, Australia, China and Japan. He introduced the Boys Brigade movement into Australia, and promoted it in the USA and Canada." - J. M. Wysong, Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology.
