. Review of reviews and world's work. ( Ian Maclaren ) had recognized it in-stantly years before, when he first saw Drum-mond on the playground at the Stirling school ;and he set Drummond at work in places of spir-itual authority and usefulness when he was buttwenty-two years of age, with an effect uponDrummonds character and future career thatprobably saved him from being a mere scientistand made him a spiritual redeeming force in cir-cles of society untouched by Mr. Moody, andamong people undergomg intellectual storm andstress with which Mr. Moody was unable tosympathize and for which he cou
. Review of reviews and world's work. ( Ian Maclaren ) had recognized it in-stantly years before, when he first saw Drum-mond on the playground at the Stirling school ;and he set Drummond at work in places of spir-itual authority and usefulness when he was buttwenty-two years of age, with an effect uponDrummonds character and future career thatprobably saved him from being a mere scientistand made him a spiritual redeeming force in cir-cles of society untouched by Mr. Moody, andamong people undergomg intellectual storm andstress with which Mr. Moody was unable tosympathize and for which he could not naturally suggests consideration of thequestion of Mr. Moodys limitations. From thetime of his first floundermg efforts to speak in theprayer-meeting of the Mt. Vernon Congrega-tional Church in Boston just after his conversiondown to the day of his death, no one was betteraware than Mr. Moody that he was limited in hisacquirements in what the world deems academicculture. This sort of culture President Eliot, of. MR. MOODYS LIBRARY IN HIS NORTHFIELD HOME. DIVIGHT L MOODY: A CHARACTER SKETCH. 167 Harvard, has defined as bearing fruit in anopen mind, trained to careful thinking, instructedin the methods of philosophic investigation, ac-quainted in a general way with the accumulatedthought of past generations, and penetrated withhumility. Of course Mr. Moody had attain-ments in spiritual culture, culture of the essen-tial man, which no degree of academic culture byitself can give to one. Emerson said that thefoundation of culture, as of character, is at thelast moral sentiment—and of moral sentimentMr. Moody had a vast deal. Of comparative re-ligion, of the philosophy of religion, of the psy-chology of conversion as it is set forth empiric-ally in the recently issued epoch-marking bookof Professor Starbuck, of Leland Stanford Uni-versity, entitled The Psychology of Religion,of the effect produced upon the thought of histime by the writings of Darwin and Spen
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