One day in the last century a young lad sat in the

One day in the last century a young lad sat in the gallery of the British House of Commons and listened to the majestic eloquence of John Bright. He went back home with the resolve in his heart that he was going to be a lawyer. The day before he was to sign the articles in a law office, he was walking through his native city when he came face to face with his Sunday-school teacher.

He said: “I am signing the articles in a law office to-morrow.” The Sunday-school teacher said : “That is a great profession,” and then his face clouded and he continued, “but Henry, I have always hoped that you would be a minister of Christ.”

In deep thought, the youth went to his home, and there in solitude he heard the call of the Eternal ringing in the chambers of his soul “as clearly as the morning bell rings in the valleys of Switzerland,” and John Henry Jowett entered the Christian ministry. In Great Britain, and here in the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he exercised a ministry second to none in the twentieth century.