Here is just an excerpt of how Henry Drummond felt about his beloved Savior Jesus Christ. It was written before it was published, for he had passed away before ‘THE IDEAL LIFE’ manuscript was entirely 'checked over' and made ready for publication.
 

Henry Drummond said . . .
 
“I want to speak tonight only a little, but that little I desire to speak of the sacred name of Christ, who is my life, my inspiration, my hope, and my surety. I cannot help stopping and looking back upon the past. And I wish, as if I had never done it before, to bear witness,
not only that it is by the grace of God; but that it is by the grace of God as manifested in Christ Jesus, that I am what I am.

I recognize the sublimity and grandeur of the revelation of God in His eternal fatherhood as one that made the heavens, that founded the earth, and that regards all the tribes of the earth, comprehending them in one universal mercy; but it is the God that is manifested in
Jesus Christ, revealed by His life, made known by the inflections of His feelings, by His discourse, and by His deeds -- it is that God that I desire to confess tonight, and of whom I desire to say, “By the love of God in Christ Jesus I am what I am.”

“If you ask me precisely what I mean by that, I say, frankly, that more than any recognized influence of my father or my mother upon me; more than the social influence of all the members of my father’s household; more, so far as I can trace it, or so far as I am made
aware of it, than all the social influences of every kind, Christ has had the formation of my mind and my disposition. My hidden ideals of what is beautiful I have drawn from Christ. My thoughts of what is manly, and noble, and pure, have almost all of them arisen from
the Lord Jesus Christ.

Many men have. educated themselves by reading Plutarch’s Lives of the Ancient Worthies, and by setting before themselves one and another of these that in different ages have achieved celebrity, and they have recognized the great power of these men on themselves.
Now I do not perceive that poet, or philosopher, or reformer, or general, or any other great man, ever has dwelt in my imagination and in my thought as the simple Jesus has.

For more than twenty-five years I instinctively have gone to Christ to draw a measure and a rule for everything. Whenever there has been a necessity for it, I have sought-and at last almost spontaneously-to throw myself into the companionship of Christ; and early, by my
imagination, I could see Him standing and looking quietly and lovingly upon me. There seemed almost to drop from His face an influence upon me that suggested what was the right thing in
the controlling of passion, in the subduing of pride, in the overcoming of selfishness; and it is from Christ, manifested to my inward eye, that I have consciously derived more ideals, more
models, more influences, than from any human character whatever.
 

“That is not all. I feel conscious that I have derived from the Lord Jesus Christ every thought that makes heaven a reality to me, and every thought that paves the road that lies between me and heaven. All my conceptions of the progress of grace in the soul; all the steps by which divine life is evolved; all the ideals that overhang the blessed sphere which awaits us beyond this world-these are derived from the Savior. The life that I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God.

“That is not all. Much as my future includes all these elements which go to make the blessed fabric of earthly life, yet, after all, what the summer is compared with all its earthly products; flowers, and leaves, and grass---that is Christ compared with all the products of Christ in my mind and in my soul. All the flowers and leaves of sympathy; all the twining joys that come from my heart as a Christian---these I take and hold in the future, but they are to me what the flowers and leaves of summer are compared with the sun that makes the summer. Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of my better life.

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Of all the number of the fine books that he wrote, his ‘THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD’ is the finest.  It should be read often by all.

The first time Dwight L. Moody heard Henry Drummond deliver 'The Greatest Thing in the World, he said he had never heard anything so beautiful. "The one great need in our Christian life is love, more love to God and to each other."  He also said, "Would that we could all move into that Love chapter (Thirteenth Chapter of 1Corinthians), and live there."

 
Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.