Henry Drummond

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<p ><b>Henry Drummond</b> (17 August 1851 – 11 March 1897) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland" >Scottish</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelism" title="Evangelism" >evangelist</a>, writer and lecturer.</p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)#Selected_writings" >2 Selected writings</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)#Further_reading" >5 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)#External_links" >6 External links</a></li>

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<p >Drummond was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling" title="Stirling" >Stirling</a>. He was educated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_University" title="Edinburgh University" class="mw-redirect" >Edinburgh University</a>, where he displayed a strong inclination for physical and mathematical science. The religious element was an even more powerful factor in his nature, and disposed him to enter the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Church_of_Scotland_(1843-1900)" title="Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)" class="mw-redirect" >Free Church of Scotland</a>. While preparing for the ministry, he became for a time deeply interested in the evangelizing mission of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Lyman_Moody" title="Dwight Lyman Moody" class="mw-redirect" >Moody</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_David_Sankey" title="Ira David Sankey" class="mw-redirect" >Sankey</a>, in which he actively co-operated for two years.

In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Church_College" title="Free Church College" >Free Church College</a>, which enabled him to combine all the pursuits for which he felt a vocation. His studies resulted in his writing <i>Natural Law in the Spiritual World</i>, the argument of which is that the scientific principle of continuity extends from the physical world to the spiritual. Before the book was published in 1883, an invitation from the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Lakes_Company" title="African Lakes Company" class="mw-redirect" >African Lakes Company</a> drew Drummond away to Central <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" title="Africa" >Africa</a>.

Upon his return in the following year he found himself famous. In 1884 he was a guest at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddo_House" title="Haddo House" >Haddo House</a> for a dinner hosted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hamilton-Gordon,1st_Marquess_of_Aberdeen_and_Temair" title="John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair" >John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair</a> in honour of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone" >William Ewart Gladstone</a> on his tour of Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond(evangelist)#cite_note-1" >[1]</a></sup> Large bodies of serious readers, among the religious and the scientific classes alike, discovered in <i>Natural Law</i> the common standing-ground which they needed; and the universality of the demand proved, if nothing more, the seasonableness of its publication. Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students.

In 1888 he published <i>Tropical Africa</i>, a valuable digest of information.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" >[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch" >who?</a></i>]</sup> In 1890 he travelled in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" >Australia</a>, and in 1893 delivered the Lowell Lectures at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" title="Boston" >Boston</a>. It had been his intention to reserve them for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, and they appeared in 1894 under the title of <i>The Ascent of Man</i>. Their object was to vindicate for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism" title="Altruism" >altruism</a>, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important part in effecting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest" title="Survival of the fittest" >survival of the fittest</a>, a thesis previously maintained by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fiske_(philosopher)" title="John Fiske (philosopher)" >Professor John Fiske</a>.

Drummond's health failed shortly afterwards (he had suffered from bone cancer for some years), and he died on 11 March 1897. His character was full of charm<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" >[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Puffery" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch" >peacock term</a></i>]</sup>. His writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few men exercised more religious influence in their own generation, especially on young men.

In 1905 the church placed a medallion plaque to his memory in the Free Church College in Edinburgh, sculpted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pittendrigh_Macgillivray" title="James Pittendrigh Macgillivray" >James Pittendrigh Macgillivray</a>.</p>

<h2 >Selected writings[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Selected writings" >edit</a>]</h2>

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<p >See Lennox's book for a fuller bibliography of Drummond's writings.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup></p>

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<li ><i>Natural Law in the Spiritual World</i> (1883)</li>

<li ><i>Tropical Africa</i> (1888)</li>

<li ><i>The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses</i> (1894)</li>

<li ><i>The Ascent of Man</i> (1894)</li>

<li ><i>The Ideal Life and Other Unpublished Addresses</i> (1897)</li>

<li ><i>The Monkey That Would Not Kill</i> (1898)</li>

<li ><i>The New Evangelism and Other Papers</i> (1899)</li>

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<h2 >References[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References" >edit</a>]</h2>

<li id="cite_note-1" ><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond(evangelist)#cite_ref-1" >Jump up^{</a></b> Emslie}, Alfred Edward. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00023/Dinner-at-Haddo-House-1884" >"Dinner at Haddo House, 1884"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London" >National Portrait Gallery, London</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" ><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)#cite_ref-2" >Jump up^{</a></b> * Lennox}, Cuthbert (1901). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.archive.org/details/practicallifewor00lenn" ><i>The Practical Life Work of Henry Drummond</i></a>. New York: James Pott and Company.</li>

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<h2 >Further reading[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading" >edit</a>]</h2>

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<li >Smith, George Adam (1898). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.archive.org/details/lifeofhenrydrumm00smitiala" ><i>The Life of Henry Drummond</i></a>. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company.</li>

<li ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_Simpson(scientist)" title="James Young Simpson (scientist)" >Simpson, James Y</a>. <i>Henry Drummond.</i> Edinburgh: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant,Anderson_and_Ferrier" title="Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier" >Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier</a>, 1901, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_for_the_%22Famous_Scots_Series%22" title='List of books for the "Famous Scots Series"' >"Famous Scots Series"</a>)</li>

<li >Drummond, Henry (1894). <i>Natural Law in the Spiritual World</i>. Hodder and Stoughton (reissued by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press" >Cambridge University Press</a>, 2009; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781108000130" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" >ISBN 978-1-108-00013-0</a>)</li>

<li >Drummond, Henry (1883). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://henrydrummond.wwwhubs.com/asctitle.htm" ><i>The Ascent of Man</i></a>. J. Pott & Co. (reissued by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press" >Cambridge University Press</a>, 2009; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781108000536" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" >ISBN 978-1-108-00053-6</a>)</li>

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<h2 >External links[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links" >edit</a>]</h2>

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<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Henry_Drummond_(1851-1897)" >Works by Henry Drummond</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg" >Project Gutenberg</a></li>

<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Drummond%2C%20Henry%2C%201851-1897%22&page=1" >Works by Henry Drummond</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.org" title="Archive.org" class="mw-redirect" >archive.org</a></li>

<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00087268" ><i>The Monkey Who Would Not Kill</i></a> with full text and full page images from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida_Baldwin_Library" title="University of Florida Baldwin Library" class="mw-redirect" >Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature</a></li>

<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chapelhillpc.net/chpc-resources/MT_Thesis.pdf" ><i>Evangelicalism in Transition: A Comparative Analysis of the Work and Theology of D.L. Moody and His Proteges, Henry Drummond and R.A. Torrey,</i></a> a Doctoral Dissertation by Mark James Toone, presented to the Faculty of St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews, 1988</li>

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<li ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PD-icon.svg" class="image" ><img src="/17f97d56-c915-5003-9c74-a6d21ba92536.png"/></a> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain" >public domain</a>: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition" >Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.</li>

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