The Greatest Thing in the World

Name: The Greatest Thing in the World
Author: Henry Drummond

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) was a Scottish evangelist and scientist. A lecturer in natural science at the Free Church College in Glasgow, he travelled with D. L. Moody's campaigns in Britain and America and spoke to students across the English-speaking world. His address The Greatest Thing in the World — a meditation on 1 Corinthians 13 — became a devotional classic; our library also holds The Ideal Life and other collections of his addresses.

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First published: 1889
Category: Holiness
Length: 38k words · about 3 hours
Chapters: 20
Modernized version: In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 90% of the original wording.
Narration: 🎧 Isabella · British English

About this book

Henry Drummond's famous address on love, first published in 1889. Taking up Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 13, Drummond examines love element by element — patience, kindness, humility, courtesy, unselfishness — and holds it up as the greatest thing in the world. Brief, lucid, and quietly searching, it has been widely reprinted ever since.