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Title: Beautiful Thoughts

Author: Henry Drummond

Release Date: October 8, 2004 [EBook #13677]

Language: English

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"Beautiful Thoughts" From Henry Drummond

Arranged by Elizabeth Cureton

{Project Gutenberg Editorial note: Many quotes from "The Greatest Thing
in the World" did not provide a page number.}

1892

The invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made.--Rom. i. 20.

To My Dear Friend

Helen M. Archibald

This Book

Is Affectionately Inscribed.

Preface.

My first thought of writing out this little book of brief selections
sprang from the desire to assist a dear friend to enjoy the Author's
helpful books.

The epigrammatic style lends itself to quotation. Taste of the spring
brings the traveller back to the same fountain on a day of greater
leisure. Many times these "Beautiful Thoughts" have enlightened my
darkness, and I send them forth with a hope and prayer that they may find
echo in other hearts. E. C.

January 1st. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny
people, and the old are hungrier for love than for bread, and the Oil of
Joy is very cheap, and if you can help the poor on with a Garment of
Praise it will be better for them than blankets. The Programme of
Christianity, p. 33.

January 2d. No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the
universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of
his age is slowly divorcing itself from it. Natural Law, Preface, p. 22

January 3d. A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without
mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the
Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a
scientific faith. Natural Law, Introduction, p. 28.

January 4th. Among the mysteries which compass the world beyond, none is
greater than how there can be in store for man a work more wonderful, a
life more God-like than this. The Programme of Christianity,