At the time this was typed in 02/04/2000, there were images showing
Millet's "The Angelus" available on the internet at the followingsites: http://www.tam.itesm.mx/~jdorante/art/realismo/1205.jpg
http://www.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/artists/angelus.html
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X2/a.NeoClassic/millet_angelus.1859.jpg
http://www.i-a-s.de/IAS/Bilder/MILLET/Angelus.htm While this list
is not exhaustive (and should include the Louvre—where the painting
is hung—but I couldn't find it there) there should be at least
one of these active at the time of the reading.
Addresses by Henry Drummond
Introductory.
I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during myvisit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around thefire, they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture.Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask HenryDrummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew asmall Testament from his hip pocket, opened it at the 13th chapterof I Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of Love.
It seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful, andI determined not to rest until I brought Henry Drummond to Northfieldto deliver that address. Since then I have requested the principalsof schools to have it read before the students every year. The onegreat need in our Christian life is love, more love to God and toeach other. Would that we could all move into that Love chapter,and live there.
This volume contains, in addition to the address on Love, someother addresses which I trust will bring help and blessing to many.
[signed]D. L. Moody.
Contents
Love, the Greatest Thing in the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Lessons from the Angelus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Pax Vobiscum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
First! An Address to Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
The Changed Life, the Greatest Need of the World . . . . . . . 82
Dealing with Doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Love: The Greatest Thing in the World
Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as ofthe modern world: What is the 'summum bonum'—the supreme good?You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is thenoblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet?
We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in thereligious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-notefor centuries of the popular religion; and we have easily learnedto look upon it as the greatest thing in the world. Well, we arewrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. In the13th chapter of I Corinthians, Paul takes us to
Christianity at its source;
and there we see, "the greatest of these is love."
It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a momentbefore. He says, "If I have all faith, so that I can removemountains, and have not love, I am nothing." So far from forgetting,he deliberately contrasts them, "Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love,"and without a moment's hesitation the decision falls, "The greatestof these is Love."
And it is not prejudice. A man is apt to recommend to others hisown strong point. Love w