Works by Henry Drummond

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• Baxter’s Second Innings
• Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses
  Description: In this little devotional book, the charming Scottish evangelist meditates upon what he considers the greatest thing in the world—love. His meditations focus on and draw from I Corinthians 13. Drummond finds that godly love has nine ingredients: patience, kindness, generosity, humility, courtesy, unselfishness, a good temper, guilelessness, and sincerity. Just as Drummond’s contemporary readers did, clergy and laypersons alike still have a fondness for Drummond’s edifying words. The Greatest Thing in the World embodies its contents, sharing love’s wisdom with warmth and honesty.
  
  Kathleen O’Bannon
  CCEL Staff
• Ideal Life
  Description: Just a few months after his death, Drummond’s family, friends, and followers celebrated his life by publishing a collection of his sermons. In addition to these sermons, the volume contains two memorial sketches of the beloved evangelist by W. Robertson Nicoll and Ian Maclaren. Drummond tackles such topics as the nature of Christ, salvation, guilt, and sin; in light of these things, he points toward how Christians can live lives that please God. Knowing that discerning God’s will for one’s life can seem daunting, Drummond spoke multiple times on prayer and how to listen for God’s voice. Especially admired by young people during his life, Drummond’s warm character shines through his words.
  
  Kathleen O’Bannon
  CCEL Staff
• Life for a Life
• Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man
  Description: As well as an evangelist and missionary, Henry Drummond was a naturalist. After Darwin published his monumental On the Origin of Species, controversy exploded across Christendom, and Drummond was one of the first to address it effectively. Fiercely dedicated to both Christian faith and scientific progress, he sought to reconcile Darwin’s theory of evolution with the teachings of the Bible. In 1893, Drummond delivered a series of lectures on perhaps the most controversial suggestion of Darwin’s theory—that humans shared a common ancestor with apes. Today, Drummond’s words remain just as controversial as they were a century ago, and human evolution remains hotly debated throughout the church.
  
  Kathleen O’Bannon
  CCEL Staff
• Monkey who Wouldn’t Kill
  Description: Along with a passion for evangelism, Drummond also had a passion for the natural sciences. As a missionary, not only did he preach to the peoples of central Africa, but he also studied and observed the African wildlife. Drummond’s travels inspired this delightful children’s book, in which a mischievous monkey wreaks havoc upon all who try to catch him. The book contains sixteen drawings by the prominent British artist, Louis Wain.
  
  Kathleen O’Bannon
  CCEL Staff
• Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  Description: As well as an evangelist and missionary, Henry Drummond was a naturalist. He studied physical and mathematical science before dedicating himself fully to Christian ministry. In 1877, he became a lecturer on natural science at the Free Church College. He used his position to share his faith as often as he could. While he studied in preparation for his lectures, Drummond wrote Natural Law in the Spiritual World, in which he explores how the world of religion and spirituality relates to the physical world. He argued that the disconnect between the spiritual and the physical was entirely illusory and that faith was by no means in conflict with science. Written just a few decades after Darwin’s landmark On the Origin of Species, Drummond’s reconciliation of the theory of evolution with God’s purposes ranks among the most important and influential books concerning Christian faith and scientific progress.
  
  Kathleen O’Bannon
  CCEL Staff
• New Evangelism and other Papers
• Stones Rolled Away and Other Addresses to Young Men
  Description: Both a scientist and an evangelist, an academic lecturer and a missionary, Henry Drummond captivated all who heard him with his intelligence and warmth of heart. During his life, young people admired him especially, and Drummond often designed and delivered talks just for them. Stones Rolled Away is a compilation of several of his addresses to young men. Drummond encourages boys to help others, grow in knowledge and understanding, and live a life pleasing to God.
  
  Kathleen O’Bannon
  CCEL Staff