Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Addresses by Henry Drummond

At the time this was typed in 02/04/2000, there were images showing Millet's "The Angelus" available on the internet at the following sites: http://www.tam.itesm.mx/~jdorante/art/realismo/1205.jpg

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

At the time this was typed in 02/04/2000, there were images showing Millet's "The Angelus" available on the internet at the following sites: http://www.tam.itesm.mx/~jdorante/ar...

2. Chapter 2

Some of us have not much time to lose. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life or death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall off...

3. Chapter 3

The proof that work is religious is that most of Christ's life was spent in work. During a large part of the first thirty years of His life He worked with the hammer and the pla...

4. Chapter 4

Rest, apparently, was a favor to be bestowed; men had but to come to Him; He would give it to every applicant. But the next sentence takes that all back. The qualification, inde...

5. Chapter 5

Remember, in the first place, that the Vine was the Eastern symbol of Joy. It was its fruit that made glad the heart of man. Yet, however innocent that gladness--for the express...

6. Chapter 6

God is all for quality; man is for quantity. The immediate need of the world at this moment is not more of us, but, if I may use the expression, a better brand of us. To secure...

7. Chapter 7

It is independent of Matter, or Space, or Time. That which I love in my friend is not that which I see. What influences me in my friend is not his body but his spirit. He influe...

8. Chapter 8

In the Gallerie des Beaux Arts in Paris there stands a famous statue. It was the last work of a great genius, who, like many a genius, was very poor and lived in a garret, which...