Produced by David Garcia, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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 my visit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around the fire, they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture. Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask Henry Drummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew a small Testament from his hip pocket, opened it at the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of Love. It seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful, and I determined not to rest until I brought Henry Drummond to Northfield to deliver that address. Since then I have requested the principals of my schools to have it read before the students every year. The one great need in our Christian life is love, more love to God and to each other. Would that we could all move into that Love chapter, and live there. This volume contains, in addition to the address on Love, some other addresses which I trust will bring help and blessing to many. (signed) D.L. Moody. LOVE: THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the _summum bonum_--the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet? We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular religion; and we have easily learned to look upon it as the greatest thing in the world. Well, we are wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. In the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, Paul takes us to CHRISTIANITY AT ITS SOURCE; and there we see, "The greatest of these is love." It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a moment before. He says, "If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing." So far from forgetting, he deliberately contrasts them, "Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love," and without a moment's hesitation the decision falls, "The greatest of these is Love."