The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-08
HENRY DRUMM0ND'S WORK
ADDRESS BR REY. DR. MUNGER BE-
 TORE THE lIEN'S CLUE.

First Lecture in the Course--Other Speak, CTS Who Hsvo Been Secured-Purposes of Drummond's Two Great Books. The first lecture in the course of the Mems club of the United church was given last evening by Rev. Dr. Munger. The officers of the year are as follows; President, Frederick II. Coggswell; vice president, Roger & Baldwin; treasurer, Charles F. Curtis; secretary, M Fl. | Lewis; committee on speakers, Rev. | MT. Flint, MT. Tracy, Walter Allen and MT. Stetsor. President Coggswell made few re- marks last evening on beginning the duties of his office. The following speakers have already been secured to lecture: November 14-Dr. Ruen Thomas of. Brooklyn on "The Moral Value of ai Man. November 21-Professor Sheath on 'Tennyson's Philosophy of Religion"
 December 5-Professor Francis s.
  Doctrine of Social Duty" December 12-President Frissell of Hampton Institute, with singers.
 December 19-Dr. Henry Van Dyke of New York on Morality and Art"
 January 30-Dr, Armory Bradford on '"The Unity of the World"
 During the winter Dr. Joseph Twich- ell of Hartford and Mrs. Ballington Booth will speak, but dates have not been fixed. Some time in January President Coggswell will deliver an ad- dress on "John Davenport"
 Rev. Dr. Munger's address last even- ing was on 'Drummond as an Author and as Man" He spoke, in part, as follows:
 President Henry Drummond was too well known to be soon forgotten. The kingdom of God advances through men and men have power only as they have truth. Henry Drummond, who died last March, was a scientist of keen dis cernment of mind and power of com bining and arranging the facts which he discerned. More than this, he pos sessed the prophetic and the power of anticipation whereby he drew out the meaning toward which the facts point ed.
 Science keeps us in the sensible world, and scientists, having discovered the truths of the material world, have nothing to say of the spiritual meaning of those truths. The best interpreters of science are the poets. Darwin and Wallace gave us the science of today, but Tennyson and Browning give us the meaning of science.
 "Drummond possessed both the sci entific spirit and poetic insight, but neither to pre-eminent degree. He was born near Sterling, the site of the battle of Bannockburn, in Scotland, in 1851. The locality is one of the most interesting in all Scotland.
 ''Drummond did not have far to go to find a university to attend for Sterling is almost in sight of the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The way was open for him, as he was of a family of aff1uence and of the higher classes He was graduated from the University of Edinburgh. His parents desired that he should enter the ministry and had he done so he would have been a mar tyr. His ascent of course caused him to be tried for heresy by the Scotch Presbytery.
 ''As usual in trials of heresy, so it was true in Drummond's case that it was not Drummond who was on trial, but his judges. No one thought wheth- CT Drummond was guilty or not, but every one had very decided opinion of the 150 men who voted against him. He hestated some time as to whether he should be a minister or a scientist. He was probably led to choose the lat ter life by the thought that his life would be broken up by constant dis putes if he entered the ministry and preached what he believed.
 "He was not satisfied with devoting his life entirely to science. He accom- panied Moody in his trip through Scot land, and one cannot but remark as to what hep we must have been to Moody and aso what a teacher for him.
 "Drummond could not make himself into professor of science alone. On Sundays he taught a class of working men morals and religious truths. At first he sought to separate his week day science from the religion he taught on Sunday, but he found it impossible that the religion on Sunday should not run out in the week day channels.
 His Natural Law in the Spiritual World was rapturously received, but met with it's critics. The title seems to bring the greater down to the less. It would have been preferable had the title be The Spiritual Law in the Natural World He had, however, no such thought in mind. He worked as a discoverer. He did not begin with doc trines and run them down to fit the facts. His method was scientific, but he accomplished the end claimed or dis covered nothing but an analogy in a question His object in the book was to extend the reign of law in the natural world into religion. He will not allow that one law stops and another enters