El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-24
Sir Henry DrummOud.

| A very great mind departed from
earth for other fields when Sir Henry
Drummond died in London recently,
says the Two Republics. And as usual
in the really great, the occurrence has
been little more than mentioned in the
briefest manner possible. He was a
man who was known on this side of the
wafer only by the books he b. d written
on theological topics. His profession
| was that of m MISTER in the Presbyte-
rian church. He was, therefore, at
| the opening of his career the sort of a
| literalist which we know by account
more than by obse: walton is the mental
bias of the Scotch Presbyterian. That
| is to say, he should have been an ad-
herent of the cathecism and of set
| forms, Il frowner upon theological in
| novation, with an iron hand for .adher-
ence to all of the set observances. We
believe that he preached for many
years before the light broke in upon
him so wildly as to show him his path
beyond peradventure. The grandeur
of his mind is illustrated no less by his
ability thereafter to retain his position
in the affections of his church people
than by the startling and wonderful
vista which he opened to practical men
all over the world in their religious
thinking. DR.. DrummOnds name will
be spoken until the end of time as that
OF the man who first placed the evolu-
ton of the human soul from the earth
life to the higher future life
upon a purely scientific basis. He &C
companied this in a manner at once
so able aud so clear as to leave no
doubt of his possession of the most
wonderful mental and philos optical
faculties. When people come to see
more clearly than they do now the
need they have of mental and mora !
expansion, and when hint of the ex-
allied life of the spiritual man of the |
future permeates down to them, as it |
certainly will in some age or time. |
then the service that DR.. Drummond !
has rendered to the race will be fully
realized. This great moral philos-
opher observed the close connection
there was between bysterical relig-
ious emotions and emotional insanity.
and sought patiently for a rational ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomena. His cou-
clusions, fully outlined in work
which he has denominated Natural
Law in the Spiritual World.' will be
a classic when London is a ruin. In
the nineteenth century he has given
such new impetus to the power
and grandeur and the reason of relig-
ion, as Bishop Butler, armed with his
wonderful ''Analogy," contributed to
it in the seventeenth. And as Buffers
sublime course Of reasoning continues
to be one of the most persistent moral
forces in the universe, expanding with
time as the suns rays expand with
distance, so DR.. Drummond's revela-
ton of the wholly naturalness of soul
Incarnation has taken its place and
will hold it and will wax and not wane,
and continuing as a great re-
Velation from God, won by the persis-
-ence of observation and consideration.
Doctor Drummond's thought is in
brief that the soul of man goes on to !
Immortality in obedience to the same
forces that produce the acorn !
rom the oak, the plant from the seed,
)r the life producing soil from the de- !
composition of the lgneous rock. He
strips the phenomena of the new birth
If all its emotional paraphernalia, long
20 popular in the churches, and par
,icularly in the rural churches, and
,he essence of fact, as the production
,hard from the ravages of insects. In pa,
lis philosophy the New Birth may be
without any emotion
whatever, and as the natural sequence I
10 "a life of earnestness, industry, ]
inquiry, and desire for the |
better in spiritual things. The soul
climbs up, grows up, mounts the
'ulucHCS, survey Guo pldlu. 10 new |
by reason of the same fol ces
hat enables the tree to tower over its
plain. 1t is merely the law of natural
orces extended so as to operate in the {
.ealm of spirituality. The suggestion {
was at first so wonderful as to dazzle
mems minds. 1t was such an over ;
innovation, and withal so
Irresistible, that men could not face it.
The very audacity of such a scheme of
saving mans soul by the
rules of applied science, at first dis
credited it. But this critical period
was soon passed land Henry Drummond
lived to see the wholly beautiful and
rational revelation he had given to the
world out of the powers of his mind,
become a classic.
SelfiShneSS.
Rev. H. w. Moore preached in the
church yesterday morn