The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-15
AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
REV. MIR. MUTCH,S DESCRIPTION OF
HENRY DIR UMMOND.

His Love for Natural Sciencc-The
Through Africa.
If there was man who fulfilled the
letter and spirit of Sir Richard Steele's
definition Of a fine gentleman that man
must have been Henry Drummond: "A
man completely qualified, as well FOR
the service and good, as for the orna-
ment and delight, of society,"
Drummond was a capital illustration
of the misft use which is made of the
word gentleman in Great Britain Our
American herd books preserve and ex-
alt the long pedigrees of high bred
stock, but there they indulge the gen.
try also in these books; and those men
in whom the strain Of nobility predom-
mates sufficiently are called gentlemen
whether or not they are either gentle
or manly. But the Drummonds do not
appear in the herd book Of the gentry.
Yet better specimen of the true gem
teman than Henry Drummond never
trod the Carse of Stirling.
His friend, DIR. watson has described
him as Of a handsome figure with
Astounding life, with rich brown hair
and brown eye which was the dis
tinguishing feature of his countenance,
tender and merciful, whose penetrating
gaze seemed to reach and encompass
your soul. The refreshing simplicity of
his cut and manner gave one an i'm
preston of a free and easy, healthy,
open aired soul without a touch of af-
fectation or conventionalism And yet
he was the farthest from the SLOUGH or
the boor in his dress and his language
as in his thought and in his Utmost
character 1t was the fact that in all
these particulars he was right to the
last scruple and without worrying
about it, or making any trouble to him
self or others that made him seem the
gentleman that he was.
He was the most companiorable sort
of a man, although he was not a great
talker. Especially did he not talk about
himself: and those who have lived the
closest to him say that while he never
betrayed the least hungering for praise,
or any desire for sympathies in diff
culties, he had rare genius for find
ing what is best in others, and in max
ing them appear better than even they
thought themselves to be, He made
himself the very same thing that he
advised people to make the authors
which they read, saving, THE thing
sought is not what you will get In an
author, but what the author will en-
able you to find in yourself" His
friend, Sir Archibald Geikie tells of
Watching him over the camp fire at
night with his companions, playing
them as if they We're the trout or sal
mon he was so fond of alluring in the
streams of his own country, and get
ting each to cap the others thrilling
and incredible tales of adventure. This
was while they were in the Rocky
mountains.
He had been educated for minister
in the Free Church of Scotland but
there was always a hesitation with him
about entering upon the profession. He
dreaded the routine of the parish and
the set sermons. There was undoubted-
ly also dread which he at first was
unable to define, Of the conventional
ism and professionalism of the minis
try. He loved variety of scene and as
ISOLATION, and needed it for the
health of his inner life, and the life
settlement of the typical Scottish min
lister would have been quite the oppo-
site variety. But the course which his
life actually took was sufficiently va
ried to suit the most extravaeant de- |
sires.
In the midst Of his course at the d. |
vinity college a Marlborough arose the |
great revival in Britain under the lead |
of Moody and Sankey, in 1873 to 1875. |
1t was an entirely new phase of relig- |
ious life there, and it swept the British |
cities with greater power than the
work Of those men carried in any
American cities.
The hand to hand method of dealing
with people In the inquiry, room. or
wherever there could be a frank. eye
to-eye talk about the realities exactly
suited the mind Of the young theologue
He at once developed a most remark
able power of helping thoughtful men
to better life. both in his public ad-
dress and in his personal contact.
Moody's quick instinct of discovering
such men ahead Of all others, saw
Drummond's power at the first glance,
and although he was only twenty-five
years Of age, he became the most
trusted and efficient of his helpers. He
took care Of the mems meetings every
where: and after Moody and Sankev
had got the work in any town fairly
started they would teleghanh for
Drummond to come and carry it on
while they went elsewhere
He had always had a love for natur-
al science, especially geology, and so
after the great revival had passed and
he had graduated from the divinity
college, he was appointed lecturer in !
natural science in the same institution !
This gave him more than half his year
10 work in his favorite forms of mis-
sion enterprise and to travel. He made {
extensive scientific expeditions to the :
Rocky Mountains, to Central Africa ,
and to the New Hebrides His little ,
book on Tropical Africa is only big +
enough to show what he might have ,
done In enriching both science and lit T
erature had he taken time and been g
spared in life to work and to write ex-
ensively. 1t is a gem of enlightened Y
ravel writing. Y
George Adam Smith who has writ q
en the excellent biography. of his T
friend Drummond, says that Central h
Africa left deep mark upon him. HE Il