Jowett

John Henry Jowett, Englishman who served for many years at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian-- Church, Manhattan, was perhaps the most famous pulpit orator of his generation.

Happy in his personal relations, he stepped from one rich pulpit to another. Never was there sign of trouble, intellectual or financial. He preached sweet Christianity, packed the galleries.

His biography has now been published,/- It tells all this, with many extracts from his noble utterances. But there is one great gap. According to his biographer, "a spoken wish of Dr. Jowett's in his last hours of weakness" forbade the publication of the sermons preached during his last three years in London (1918-21). What were, they? They were fighting sermons against 1) the British factory system, 2) money worship, 3) carnality, 4) international hatred.

Never before had he preached sermons which aroused resentment. And, dying, he canceled these.

Here, wrote Salem G. Bland, Canadian divine, in The Christian Century, last week, is the "tragedy of Dr. Jowett."

/-JOHN HENRY JOWETT--Arthur Porritt, with a foreward by the Archbishop of Canterbury--Doran ($2.50).