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"I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during my visit to England in 1884. One Sunday evening as we sat around the fire, they asked me to read and expound some portion of Scripture. Being tired after the services of the day, I told them to ask Henry Drummond, who was one of the party. After some urging he drew a small Testament from his hip pocket, opened to the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, and began to speak on the subject of Love. "It seemed to me t

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