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Henry Drummond, a seminal New Thought writer

Serving New Thought is pleased to present

Henry Drummond's

The Greatest Thing in the World

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1 Corinthians 13 - The Greatest Thing in the World - The Contrast - The Analysis - The Defense - Contents -


We speak of it as a mere infirmity of nature, a family failing, a matter of temperament, not a thing to take into very serious account in estimating a man's character. And yet here, right in the heart of this analysis of love, it finds a place; and the Bible again and again returns to condemn it as one of the most destructive elements in human nature.

The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or " touchy " disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics. The truth is there are two great classes of sins---sins of the Body, and sins of the Disposition. The Prodigal Son may

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