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AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
HENRY RUMMOND and HIS QUAIL
titles OF FRIENDSHIP.


Second Address by Rev. Mr.. Mulch
Characters Fashioned and Ideals
Formed by observation-disclosures
Personal Magnetism His Power fOa
Forming Frtendships-His Visit to
Yale and His Comparison of Students
of America and England.
At the Howard avenue Congrega-
tlonal church last evening before large
congregation the Rev. W. j. Mulch gave
the second part of his address on Hen
ry Drummond." The address last even
ing spoke of his quality as friend and
was listened to with an absorbing inter-
est by the congregation He spoke, in
part, as follows:
Having already spoken of Drummond
as a man in whom the qualities OF a
gentleman were all strongly marked, 1t
remains to us now to look upon those
qualities which made him a friend, al
though it Is not possible to separate
them entirely from each other. He was
both gentleman and friend, and he was
the one largely because he was the 9TH
err If it should seem strange to any
one that an occasion like this should
be devoted entirely to the consideration
of any man merely as a friend, let it be
remembered that it is by friendships
more than by any other agency that
cbo toy is 70 oh form
ed That personal attachment which
we call friendship is the spiritual unity
which binds people together and gives
them a mutual power over each other.
Such a powerful agent in the produc-
ton of character needs to be often ex
amined in concrete cases. Illustrious
cases of friendship need to stand forth
as models to guide the youth of every
generation both in their service of
friendship to others, and in their choice
Of friends for themselves.
1t is the opinion Of w. Robertson
Nicoll that Drummond received more Of
the condolences of people untouched by
the work of the church than any other
man of his time And this bographer
thinks it is safe to say that no man in
our generation can have heard confess
sion more constantly than Drummond
did. 1t was his gift for friendship very
largely that brought him forward so
much in evangelistic work He was not
like any other evangelist that ever
lived. He Stunned the cant and the
exaggerated language and the stilted
forms of expression and the convention
al sensa tionalism of ordinary evangel-
ism. His appeal was to thoughtful
men, and 1t was without passion or elo-
quence, without stories or jokes, al
though he was as sparkling with hui
NOR as any one in social converse
ton.
His power lay very largely in the d.
rection of what is vaguely called per-
sonal magnetism. He was so attractive
that every one loved him and gladly
told him the darkest secrets of their
inner life that he might help them to
get right with God. His ideas of a
spiritual diagnosis made it necessary
that hearts that were anxious for help |
should be thus opened In order that |
right counsel might be given for their |
relief. One element in that attractive
ness was his transparent sincerity and |
honesty. in which troubled souls could |
thy, and who would respect their con- |
fidence and be wise and practical in his |
counsel And again he had exhaustess !
patience with all who sought his help.
When he became so widely known he |
became deluged with letters from all |
over the world from all sorts of people
not excepting crapks and twisted peo-
pie who wanted his help in every con-
ceivable way. Numberless calls rob-
bed him of precious time but to all he
gave the greatest possible consideration.
And 1t was by this patient personal at
tention that ne was able to do some of
his best work in helping people to a
better life. People saw his clear spirit
reflected in his books and they read
them for help and were not disappoint-
ed A leading critic thinks that no liv-
ing novelist Of the day has had so
many readers as he, and many Of those
readers have written to him to tell him
of the help he has given them. or per-
haps to ask for farthur light.
His great missions with Moody, and
afterward in the student movement
both at home and in this country as
well as in Australia brought him friend
ships by the thousands. He valued
these more than any other thing in the
world and for their sake he refused
every other calling. Ie received many
appeals to- stand for parliament, one |
strong one from Gladstone: he was Of
fered the pres dercy Of McGlll universi-
ty in Toronto: he was constantly be-
sieged with calls to lecture and write
articles for large pay, but refused all {
because they would prevent him from
his work with the students principally c
Of Edinburgh and Glasgow universities !
for he came to regard that as his chief
work. Every Sunday night through
winters for years he met from 600 to
1000 men In the Odd Fellows hall In Y
His message to these men
was simply that of Christian friend,
and as such it was received gladly BY 7
them. Before his time the behavior of
students there was coarse and bolster
BUS. and the only religious life was a t
prayer meeting Of a dozen men T
1t was in connection with the famous
student movement which he started In
Edinburgh and which swept over the
whole world in the eighties that he Wis e
ted Yale in 1887 He was the first of t
he six Brilliant Scotsmen who have Wis u
ted our university from across the wa
er within the last dozen years, and |
us with their lectures: the :.
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