INTRODUCTION
Any one who had read “TheGreatest Thing in the World” could nothelp but desire to see and hear its author;and, when Professor Drummond visitedBoston in the spring of 1893, the capacityof lecture halls was taxed to the utmost. Toaccommodate thousands turned away, herepeated some of his lectures in the LowellInstitute Course, Boston. It was a crowdedBoylston Hall or Appleton Chapel thatinvariably faced him when he addressedthe students of Harvard University. Hedrew young men as few men can. Heloved life and nature. He studied andknew men. He had read much. He hadtravelled in Europe, America, Africa,Australia and the New Hebrides, witheyes and ears wide open. With a charmingpersonality and a rare grace of manner, hewas a most attractive speaker andcharacter, whether on the platform or inthe quiet hour.* * ** * *The student, the evangelist andpastor, the professor and lecturer, thetraveller and writer, has passed away; buthis words, his writing and his influencecannot. He willingly gave his life to help
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