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The Greatest Thing in the World

by Henry Drummond

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Evangelist Dwight L. Moody relates the story of how he benefited from one particularly vivid and crucial message. "One Sunday evening as we sat around the fire, my friends asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture. Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask Henry Drummond, who was one of the party. He opened his Bible to the 13th chapter of First Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of love. It seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful. Since then I have requested the principals of the schools to have it read before the students every year." Drummond's memorable homily on love--the supreme good--retains all its original freshness and vitality in this oral rendition.… (more)
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This classic book written by Henry Drumond illuminates the importance of I Corinthians 13. Widely read and quoted for decades, and continues to influence people to follow God's two great commandments: to love God and to love each other.
  phoovermt | Apr 13, 2023 |
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  WBCLIB | Feb 19, 2023 |
I read this book while in college and have read several times since then. It was a life changing book for me then and continues to influence how I think on love now. ( )
  JRobinW | Jan 20, 2023 |
The 3 works in this book discuss 1) Love - as in 1 Corinthians 13
2) Rest in a Christian's life
3) The program of Christianity
  MenoraChurch | Mar 16, 2022 |
More Hot Topics: Rip Offs
  semoffat | Aug 31, 2021 |
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Everyone has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the summum bonum - the supreme good?
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Evangelist Dwight L. Moody relates the story of how he benefited from one particularly vivid and crucial message. "One Sunday evening as we sat around the fire, my friends asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture. Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask Henry Drummond, who was one of the party. He opened his Bible to the 13th chapter of First Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of love. It seemed to me that I had never heard anything so beautiful. Since then I have requested the principals of the schools to have it read before the students every year." Drummond's memorable homily on love--the supreme good--retains all its original freshness and vitality in this oral rendition.

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