Noted Pastor Dead

Universal regret was expressed at the death of the Reverend John Henry Jowett, D.D., M.A., at Gables Belmont near Croydon, whither he had retired a few months ago when his health forced him to resign the pastorship of Westminster Chapel.

Born in England 59 years ago, he was educated at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities, and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the former in 1910. After leaving college he became pastor of St. James' Congregational Church in Newcastle, where he stayed until 1895. From there he went to Cair's Lane Church, Congregational Church in Birmingham, and stayed there until he was called to the U. S. in 1911.

At this time he had already 'begun to make a name for himself. No sooner had he arrived in New York than he returned to England for the Coronation of King George, being one of the two Nonconformist clergymen to be invited to that ceremony.

During his eleven years in the U. S. he enjoyed an ever-increasing popularity. His sermons were expository and oldfashioned. Never did he border upon the sensational or the topical. He avoided modernism much as another human being avoids a plague. His Sunday messages, which attracted thousands of people and frequently filled to overflowing the Fifth Avenue Church, were forceful in their earnestness, ^ simple in their composition, refreshing in their spiritual appeal.

In 1918, at the request of Premier

Lloyd George, but to the deepest regret of his Fifth Avenue congregation, the Rev. Jowett sailed back to his "beloved England" to take over the pastorate of Westminster Chapel in London. After four years of strenuous and unselfish labor, his health forced him to retire. He broke that retirement once to take part in a conference at Copenhagen of the World's Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through Churches. This exertion hastened the end. He was forced to move from one health resort to another in his plucky fight against anaemia. On Dec. 19 a great man was lost to this world and the Church Militant.