AN ADDRESS BY HENRY DRUMMOND, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. . AUTHOR OF GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD," ETC. AUTHOR'S EDITION NEW YORK JAMES POTT & CO., PUBLISHERS 14 AND 16 ASTOR PLACE 1891 ANDOVER-FARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE, MASS H47298 COPYRIGHT JAMES POTT & CO. 1891 TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, PREFACE. LAST autumn, in a book-shop in California, the author found a little book with his name upon the title-page-a book which he did not know existed; which he never wrote; nor baptized with the title which it bore. This stray publication-taken from shorthand notes of a spoken Address he does not grudge. Already, it seems, it has done its small measure of good. But owing to the imperfections which it contains it has been thought right to issue a more complete edition. The theme, like its predecessors in this series, represents but a single aspect of its great |