A DISTINGUISHED BRITISH NON-CONFORMIST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 5

A DISTINGUISHED BRITISH NON-CONFORMIST.

ACCEPTS >£ NEW YORK PASTORATE'. By Telegraph—Press As6oe!ation-Copyrlf:h=. London, January 25. ; Dr. J. H. Jowett, minister of Carr's Lane Congregational Church,. Birmingham, has accepted the. pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian "Church, New. York. DR. JOWETT AS PASTOR AND WRITER. Dr. stands in the very front rank of English Nonconformists. He succeeded to' the pastorate of the Carr's Lane Congregational Church, Birmingham, in lb'9s, on the death of Dr. Dale, and has maintained the high traditions of the church of which John' Augell James was onco minister. He is highly esteemed by men of all religious denominations, and is one of the ablest preachers of the day. He is also the author, of several well-known religions books. As regards the much-debated question of the relation of tho Church to politics, Dr. Jowett recently stated his position as.follows:—"We do not disparage politics nor put them outside as unclean, for we, as. Freo Churchmen above all felt that polities should'be interpreted in the spirit of Jesus Christ. But we are here to get behind all political controversies by getting nearer to Christ."

Referring to Dr. Jowett's latest book, "The School of Calvary," the "Christian World" ■ states -.—"To those who know what a master of the art he is, it is enough to say that Dr. Jowett is at his very best iu this series of expositions. The fruitful idea from which the book has grown ho. found iu a littlo devotional work, written by a great mystic three hundred years ago, in which one chapter is headed, 'Cavalry is the True Academy of Love.' It was Lord Ros-ebery, wo believe, who on a famous occasion happily described Cromwell as a great practical mystic,'and one of tho things Dr. Jowett is concerned to enforce is that there is no real antagonism between the best sort of mysticism and the most practical life. 'He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it-' is, of course, a mystical paradox, but in his second chaptor Dr. Jowett shows how much truer to tho realities of life are these words of Jesus than the 'threefold policy of silence, drifting, and suction,' so strenuously advocated by Mr. Worldly Wiseman. Each chapter from first to last is full of that intuition into the meaning of the great sayings of Christ, and that happy gift of luminous illustration with which all who know Dr. Jowett as an expositor are familiar.' All through tho hook the lofty and gracious spirit of the writer and his singular skill in clothing his ideas iu powerful and pregnant language are .manifest."