The Practical Life Work of Henry Drummond

ilosophy, Natural Philosophy, and English Literature. The remaining four were occupied at one of the Theological Halls of the Church, in study of such special subjects as Hebrew, Apologetics, Natural Science, Evangelistic Theology, Old and New Testament Exegesis, Systematic Theology, and Church History. Henry Drummond went to Edinburgh University. In these days Sellar was Professor of Latin, or " Humanity," as it is called in Scotland; Blackie still discoursed upon Greek, and on anything else that came into his head; Chrystal inspired a profound respect for the intellectualities of Mathematics; Campbell Fraser was in the chair of Logic; Tait, in that of Natural Science, carried the palm as the finest lecturer in the University; Calder- wood enunciated the elements of Moral Philosophy with metallic conscientiousness; and rugged Masson tugged at the gas-bracket, and spilt his enthusiasm for English and Scots literature upon such as had ears to hear and a heart to understand. But, in tracing the moulding forces of those University days, we have to seek elsewhere than in the records of class work and degree examinations. Young Drummond's discursive genius rebelled against the traditional and the commonplace: and yet he was not idle. The atmosphere of a Scottish University is always tonic to the intellectual mind, and dormant tastes are bound to be stimulated and developed. Of Drummond's doings during his first term at the University (1866-67) we find little reco...