The life of Henry Drummond Author:George Adam Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III PREPARATION FOR THE MINISTRY ' During his Arts curriculum Henry Drummond formed no plans for his future, beyond some thought of finding his way... more » into the Divinity Hall of the Free Church of Scotland.'1 To this there was much to dispose him, and he had already passed through some religious experience. In his last illness he told Professor Simpson that 'when he was twelve he had a great work going through Sonar's God's Way of Peace, but thinks it did him harm.' While he was a student, he attended some mission services at Cambusbarron. He was profoundly impressed by the addresses he heard, and soon after told his father that he wished to enter the ministry.2 In Edinburgh he shared his lodgings with several divinity students; and in Stirling he met many ministers and evangelists, among them Dr. Binnie of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, to whose kindness in counsel he afterwards looked back with gratitude. The first notice of his intentions occurs in a letter to a fellow-student of date April, 1870. 'Are you not sorry to leave the University? I feel it very much. Altho' I intend to enter the Church Hall next winter, it is still a degeneracy to gofrom an ancient University to a nameless college! Happily I shall still be a student. I have now to commence the pleasant study of Hebrew, and have the prospect of being plucked in that particular branch at the F. C. Board Examination in July. Fortunately I know the alphabet from the 1 19th Psalm !' On May 15th he began Hebrew by himself, and soon after made a literal translation of some of the Psalms. On July 26th he passed the Board. 1 From recollections by the Rev. J. H. M'Culloch. a From recollections by Mr. Fotheringham. The Cambusbarron Mission was in charge of the R...« less