DR. JOWETT IN NEW YORK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 20 May 1911, Page 9

DR. JOWETT IN NEW YORK.

HIS Mi;ST SUNDAY. Dr. Jowelfc had a rough voyage in the Maurotania, and suffered from sea-sick-ness. He readied Now York some hours late, just before midnight, on Thursday, March 30, and was most heartily welcomed by a. deputation of Church officers. Intense interest was manifested in his sermon at Fifth Avenue Church on the following: Sunday. An hour before the service all the free seat? had been appropriated, and seatliolders had to bo admitted by a side door, to nvoM the immense crowd outside. Dr Jowett, who is said to have looked bettor than when he arrived, preached on Christ's compassion for the multitude. New York, he said, presented one of the world's richest fields for the harvesting of God's people, and he wished, to vitalise the Church' and make it a' militant J foicc.

"We must lift humanity up," ho said ns lie pictured Christ coming to Now I'ork and finding men worried, worn, torn and restless. Christ would 6cc through their thin gaiety to the lives embittered by remorse and smitten by fear. During the service a message from Can's Lane Church, Birmingham, was read. The cabled message of tho "Daily News" correspondent says that during tho reading of tho second Scripture lesson the reporters who sat behind Airs. Jowett asked her to give them an interview. "I cannot talk to you in church," she replied, waving thorn away. After the service Dr. Jowett held an informal reception, shaking hands with hundreds of the congregation. The cable correspondents agree in reporting that Dr. Jowett's first sermon gripped the great congregation by its mastery of the subject. The editorial comments of the New York dailies were .eulogistic and congratulatory. Dr. Jowett's "winning personality" is dwelt upon, and "the absence of affectation" is praised. "Only a slight trace of English accent" is noted by the reporters. Dr. Jowett was to bo formally "installed" last night.