The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-31
DR.JOWETTHERE, ,GLADT0LAND
NAt RETiNiA HAU 4 ROtGH
TRiP AND nv ~ 10 SEAMAN.

C1,urc,, Committee Meets Ilim Down the
| lsay Tie says tie u q Representa.
I tive NJ NoncOnformist Sentiment
/ In Favor Of Arbitration Treaty.
/ The Cunarder Mauretania. after a
stormy passage from Queenstown, docked
at midnight this morning. and large
number OF the members OF the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. who had
waited on the pier nearly two hours. en-
Enthusiastically greeted their new pastor.
the Rev. DIR. John Henry Jowett. formerly
Of the Carr's Lane Con regational Church
in Birmin CHAM. Dr. Jowett did not have
a pleasant voyage. for he is not. he sadly
admitted. an able seaman He was met
down the bay by a special committee
of the church. Messrs. Frederick A. Wallis.
Henry. T.. Sutphen and John v. Irwin.
who introduced the reporters to him at
! Quarantine.
DR.. Jowett is slender. above the medium
height and has forehead that shows an
inclination to bulge. He is soft voiced
and mild hammered and wears the same
sort of clothes as the average American
or British business man. There is moth
ing in his dress TO show his calling.
DR.. Jowett said he had come here to
stay II the people Of his new church would
let him. Mr.. Wallis remarked that the
church had hard time getting the doctor
and was going TO keep him. The doctor
then said:
Il shall give the fulness Of my strength
primarily to the pulpit work Of my new
church; but I want the home mission
work connected with the church to be
vitalized by the life Of what I may call
the parent church. I shall esteem the
pulpit the supreme place from which to
accomplish the mission work.
Il regard my coming here at the time
when the arbitration treaty is under
discussion by the peoples Of England
and the United States as a happy coinci-
dence. You may say that come almost
as the appointed representative Of the
free churches Of England1o express their
united feeling in favor Of President Taft's
proposal.
| King George said AZ a dinner which |
attended on March that ! came here
with the Ood will Of himself and the
Queen. Il 10 almost q new thing for a
King OF England to be interested in the
Nonconformist churches. No other mon
archs OF England except King Edward
and King George ever manifested such
interest. The King evidently wants to
do all he can to unity the national life
Ono Of his first acts after he came to the
throne was to have the clause in the ooro-
nation oath offensive to the Church OF
Rome cast oat. In fhy opinion this was
unanimously approved by the Nonoon-
| formst churches.
| -Statistically the free churches OF
England are not growing in numbers:
| in fact they seem to be on the decline
But do not judge their work by statistics
think they are on the whole very healthy
and are doing very vigorous work. The
line Of demarcation between the Estab-
lished Church and the Nonconformists
| is not so we'll defined "a it has been. They
are drawing nearer and there is a greater
spirit Of liberation; there is even talk
4 OF NOnCOnfOrmlst DelnG invited To
preach in St Paul's."
DR.. Jowett will preach his first sermon
at the Fifth Avenue bhurch on Sunday
He will return To England in June to fix
up his affairs and will be back permanently
he hopes. in September. Mrs Jowett
! il with him and his daughter will join
him later.
DR.. Jowett. who has been described as
"the greatest living preacher" and who
was recognized as the greatest dissenting
preacher in England accepted in January
the offer OF the elders OF the church. which
included a salary OF Sl2 600 a year and a
home. and promised TO begin his pastorate
| the latter part Of March or the first part
Of April. The news that he was to leave
Carrs Lane Church. Birmingham. created
great stir in England and people from
all parts Of the island wrote TO DR. Jowett
advancing reasons why he should not go.
The City Magistrates OF Birmingham
TO 60 and even bishops Of the Established
Church expressed the hope that he would
remain in England,
J Dr. Jowett was born in Yorkshire and
educated at Edinburgh University and
Mansfield College. Oxford He has been
pastor Of only two churches. st. James's 9
Church. Newcastle n-Tyne. where he
went in 1889 and remained seven years,
leaving 10 succeed the celebrated DR. Dale
at Carr's Lane Church DR., Jowett
founded and supervised the Digbeth
Institute in a poor part of Birmingham. for
which the Carr's Lane Church raised
Si25. 900 in response to appeal
Other passengers arriving by the Maui
retania we're Sir Edward Elga:. Sir Charles
Henry, Sir Robert Perks. Foxhall p.
Kesne, Col. Colin Campbell. Ernest
Thompson Seton. W. X, Vanderbilt, Jr.
and c. B. Alexander and family.
cox WINS FURTHER DELAY.