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The Eagle Life and Other Studies in the Old Testament
by John Henry Jowett
"If life were just a sunny picnic that was never broken up by fierce tempest, by thunder and lightning and pelting rain, the greater part of our human resources would remain unused and concealed. It is in the mighty days that we discover ourselves. Latent gifts troop out of their graves. Buried seeds spring into vigorous life. We never thought we had it in us? The big struggle becomes not only our re-vealer, but also our unearther, and we put on strength and majesty like a robe.
We are living through mighty days, and by God’s good grace we can be equal to the days. These are days of great unlockings, and we are having surprises on every side! Young fellows who were regarded as milksops are revealing themselves as iron pillars. Once-while selfish men are unveiling their spiritual wealth in glorious sacrifice. Women who appeared to be living for nothing are giving their life like wine! The “mighty days” are upon us, and God is making us equal to the days."
This classic work contains the following 48 meditations:
I. The Brooding Spirit
II. The Blessing of the Curse
III. Back to the Early Altar
IV. The Blind Spot
V. Visiting the Great Yesterdays
VI. Keeping in Tune
VII. The Sin of Forgetfulness
VIII. The School of Hunger
IX. The Contagion of Faint-Heartedness
X. Clean Fighters
XI. The Men of Mighty Days
XII. The Balances of God
XIII. The Sin of Prayerlessness
XIV. The Eyes of the Lord
XV. Largeness of Heart
XVI. First Aid
XVII. The Invisible Forces
XVIII. Strengthening the Hands
XIX. The Noblest Conquest
XX. The Blast of Burning
XXI. Silken Strings and Cart-Ropes
XXII. The Divine Side of Things
XXIII. Glory Everywhere
XXIV. A Missing Hand
XXV. The Life That Has No Morning
XXVI. The Valley of Vision
XXVII. Compensations
XXVIII. The Mysterious Sword
XXIX. The Transformed Desert
XXX. The Songs of the Road
XXXI. The Eagle Life
XXXII. Like the Waves
XXXIII. The Divine Ministry of Displacement
XXXIV. The Gaze of the Questioner
XXXV. The Almond Tree
XXXVI. Fixedness of Character
XXXVII. The Making of Heroes
XXXVIII. Irreverent Fear
XXXIX. Little-Mindedness
XL. Week-Day Holiness
XII. On the Edge of the Cliff
XLII. Baffled to Fight Better
XLIII. Or Rather!
XLIV. Slow Walking
XLV. The Eagle Life
XLVI. The Strength of the Insignificant
XLVII. Dungeoned Heart
XLVIII. The Sound Sleep of the Coward
We are living through mighty days, and by God’s good grace we can be equal to the days. These are days of great unlockings, and we are having surprises on every side! Young fellows who were regarded as milksops are revealing themselves as iron pillars. Once-while selfish men are unveiling their spiritual wealth in glorious sacrifice. Women who appeared to be living for nothing are giving their life like wine! The “mighty days” are upon us, and God is making us equal to the days."
This classic work contains the following 48 meditations:
I. The Brooding Spirit
II. The Blessing of the Curse
III. Back to the Early Altar
IV. The Blind Spot
V. Visiting the Great Yesterdays
VI. Keeping in Tune
VII. The Sin of Forgetfulness
VIII. The School of Hunger
IX. The Contagion of Faint-Heartedness
X. Clean Fighters
XI. The Men of Mighty Days
XII. The Balances of God
XIII. The Sin of Prayerlessness
XIV. The Eyes of the Lord
XV. Largeness of Heart
XVI. First Aid
XVII. The Invisible Forces
XVIII. Strengthening the Hands
XIX. The Noblest Conquest
XX. The Blast of Burning
XXI. Silken Strings and Cart-Ropes
XXII. The Divine Side of Things
XXIII. Glory Everywhere
XXIV. A Missing Hand
XXV. The Life That Has No Morning
XXVI. The Valley of Vision
XXVII. Compensations
XXVIII. The Mysterious Sword
XXIX. The Transformed Desert
XXX. The Songs of the Road
XXXI. The Eagle Life
XXXII. Like the Waves
XXXIII. The Divine Ministry of Displacement
XXXIV. The Gaze of the Questioner
XXXV. The Almond Tree
XXXVI. Fixedness of Character
XXXVII. The Making of Heroes
XXXVIII. Irreverent Fear
XXXIX. Little-Mindedness
XL. Week-Day Holiness
XII. On the Edge of the Cliff
XLII. Baffled to Fight Better
XLIII. Or Rather!
XLIV. Slow Walking
XLV. The Eagle Life
XLVI. The Strength of the Insignificant
XLVII. Dungeoned Heart
XLVIII. The Sound Sleep of the Coward
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Kindle Edition, 166 pages
Published March 13th 2014 by Titus Books
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John Henry Jowett was born in Halifax, England in 1864. Jowett's father had arranged for him to begin working as a clerk for a lawyer in Halifax, but the encouragement of his Sunday school teacher, Mr. Dewhirst, turned Jowett's heart toward the ministry.
After theological training at Edinburgh and Oxford, Jowett assumed the pastorate of the Saint James Congregational Church. His six effective years of ministry brought him to the attention of the Carr's Lane Church in Birmingham, England, on the death of their pastor. For the next fifteen years the church grew and prospered. Their pastor's vision led them to increase their efforts to bring people to Christ. In 1917, the mayor of Birmingham said the church had changed the town with "crime and drunkenness having decreased."
Jowett came to America for the first time in 1909 to address the Northfield Conference founded by D. L. Moody. While in America he preached twice at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. The church immediately asked him to come as its pastor. Jowett refused, having received a petition, signed by more than 1,400 members of his church in England, begging him to stay. The Fifth Avenue Church called him again, and then a third time. Finally Jowett concluded that this was God's leading for his life. He assumed the pastorate in 1911.
Although his preaching style was not dynamic (he read all of his sermons), the depth of his knowledge, the clarity of his language, and the power of his life commanded respect. Attendance at the church which had dropped to 600 on Sunday morning rose to 1,500. Lines up to half a block long formed, waiting for unclaimed seats. Jowett began preparing his Sunday sermons on Tuesday, following a meticulously detailed schedule.
When G. Campbell Morgan resigned the Westminster Chapel in London in 1917, Dr. Jowett once again crossed the ocean to take a new church. This would be his final pastorate. Declining health forced him to give up preaching in 1922, and his death in 1923 took from the world one of its most gifted and dedicated preachers.
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