"I was going to lend you my copy, so we could talk about it intelligently.

What message have you found in it for you ?" "Message ?" "Yes; every book should have a message and should deliver it to the reader.

Drummond's book thundered a message to me, but it came too late.
I am old, and past the time when I could heed any such call.

If I were young, if I--if I were like you, Dorian, you who have life before you, what might not I do, with the help of the Lord!" "What, Uncle Zed ?" "Drummond was a clergyman and a professor of natural history and science.

As such, he was a student of the laws of God as revealed both through the written word of inspiration and in nature about him.