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Drummond's memorable homily on love - the supreme good - retains all its original freshness and vitality in this oral rendition.

Widely quoted and read, his message on love from First Corinthians sold over 12 million copies. Involving God's two greatest commands - to love Him and love one another - this message is just as needed today as it was back then.

The Changed Life was originally intended to be given as a spoken address by the renowned 19-century Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond.

A Scottish evangelist in the late 19th century, Drummond is best remembered for this 1880 meditation, The Greatest Thing in the World, his thoughts on Paul's great hymn to love, 1 Corinthians 13. It is an empowering message, as timeless as it is life-affirming.

"This question, let it be carefully observed, applies to laws not to phenomena. That the Phenomena of the Spiritual World are in analogy with the Phenomena of the Natural World requires no restatement. Since Plato enunciated his doctrine of the Cave or of the twice-divided line; since Christ spake in parables; since Plotinus wrote of the world as an image...since "Sartor Resartus" and "In Memoriam," it has been all but a commonplace with thinkers that "the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made."

Professor of the natural sciences, world lecturer, and missionary, Henry Drummond was a man of multiple talents and interests. His penetrating scientific mind enabled him to tackle topics such as the way to become like Christ ( The Changed Life) and objections to faith ( Dealing with Doubt) with clarity and accuracy.

It sometimes happens that a man, in giving to the world the truths that have most influenced his life, unconsciously writes the truest kind of a character sketch. This was so in the case of Henry Drummond, and no words of mine can better describe his life or character than those in which he has presented to us," The Greatest Thing in the World." Some men take an occasional journey into the 13th of One Corinthians, but Henry Drummond was a man who lived there constantly, appropriating its blessings and exemplifying its teachings. 

Henry Drummond (1851-1897) was a Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer, and lecturer. This essay is about a man laying down his life as Christ laid down His life. It is also about using plain language when talking about the message of the Bible.