See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:DRUMMOND (1851-1897)
, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was See also:horn in See also:Stirling on the 17th of See also:August 1851
.
He was educated at See also:Edinburgh University, where he displayed a strong inclination for • See also:physical and mathematical See also:science
.
The religious See also:element was an even more powerful See also:factor in his nature, and disposed him to enter the See also:Free See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Scotland
.
While preparing for the See also:ministry, he became for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time deeply interested in the evangelizing See also:mission of See also:Moody and Sankey, in which he actively co-operated for two years
.
In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church See also:College, which enabled him to combine all the pursuits for which he See also:felt a vocation
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His studies resulted in his See also:writing Natural See also:Law in the Spiritual See also:World, the See also:argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from the physical world to the spiritual
.
Before the See also:book issued from the See also:press (1883), a sudden invitation from the See also:African Lakes See also:Company See also:drew See also:Drummond away to Central See also:Africa
..
Upon his return in the following See also:year he found himself famous
.
Large bodies of serious readers, alike among the religious and the scientific classes, discovered in Natural Law the See also:common See also:standing-ground which they needed; and the universality of the demand proved, if nothing more, the seasonableness of its publication
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Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students
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In 1888 he published Tropical Africa, a valuable See also:digest of See also:information
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In 1890 he travelled in See also:Australia, and in 1893 delivered the See also:Lowell Lectures at See also:Boston
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It had been his intention to reserve them for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, ,and they appeared in 1844 under the See also:title of The Ascent of See also:Man
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Their See also:object was to vindicate for See also:altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important See also:part in effecting " the survival of the fittest," a thesis previously maintained by See also:Professor See also:John See also:Fiske
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Drummond's See also:health failed shortly after-wards, and he died on the rrth of See also:March 1897
.
His See also:character was full of See also:charm
.
His writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own See also:day to justify the expectation that they would See also:long survive it, but few men exercised more religious See also:influence in their own See also:generation, especially on See also:young men
.
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