man of especial promise. Having determined on a ministerial career, he passed through the Free Church Divinity Hall, and after his ordination was appointed to a mission-station at Malta. Here he employed his leisure in the pursuit of his favorite studies, Theology and Science, boldly grappling with the problems presented by the most recent researches and developments of the latter in the effort to seek a reconciliation with the spirit and essence of the former.

The result of these studies was made apparent when, on his return to Scotland in 1877, the brilliant young man, barely twenty-six years of age, was appointed Lecturer in Science at the Free Church College in Glasgow. It was yet more apparent when, in 1883, the free fruition

of his thought and experience was presented to the world in a remarkable book entitled "Natural Laws in the Spiritual World." This book might be looked upon as in some sort an amplification of the theme which Tennyson also had chosen in that magnificent though illy-named poem, "The Higher Pantheism," and might have taken for its text the pregnant line,

And if God thunders by law, the thunder is still His voice.

The book found at once a hearty response. It ran through thirty editions in England, and the presses are not yet still. It was republished in America. It was translated into French, German, Dutch, and Norwegian. It has already become a classic.

In 1884 he became Professor of Science in the Free Church College. He had already established a firm friendship with Prof. Geikie, a man of kindred tastes and abilities, with whom he soon after started on an extended tour through the Rocky Mountains and South Africa. Some of the results of his travels were given to the world in a little work entitled "Tropical Africa," and in other monographs.

In 1889 he was invited to make an address at Dr. Moody's college at Oxford. This took the form of a brilliant essay entitled "The Greatest Thing in the World." Its publication in book form was instantly demanded. Slight as was the pamphlet in bulk, its success more than repeated the success of his first literary effort. Nearly a quarter of a

million copies were sold in Great Britain alone. The second and third of the same series, "Pax Vobiscum " ("Peace be with You") and "The Changed Life," met with a sale equally extraordinary. An address to boys entitled "First," delivered originally in Glasgow, together with "How to Learn How," completes the list of Prof. Drummond's published books. It is significant of the author's modesty, self-restraint, and singleness of mind that while the public is clamoring for every line he may choose to give them he withholds the manuscript of numerous addresses, spoken but never printed, and that his published books represent only the merest fraction of his intellectual life-work. Indeed, he consented to the issue of "The Changed Life" only after

the accidental discovery, while travelling last year in California, of a mangled edition taken down from shorthand notes at the time the address was delivered.

Prof. Drummond has a singular union of gifts. As a rule, the glory of the orator is one thing, and the glory of the writer is another. Prof. Drummond is one of the few brilliant exceptions to that rule. How often do we find the impassioned sentences of the orator turn. cold and lifeless in the printed page! How often does the brilliant writer seem stilted and unnatural in spoken word!

Judged as a writer, he has command. of a vigorous, nervous, flexible style. His words are simple, he loves monosyllables more than polysyllables, and Saxon more than Latin. He has a wealth of