every support and encouragement from my parents’.28 Nevertheless, the earlier newspaper report might indicate that he had youthful feelings towards the ministry which he had not shared with his family. There is no reason to doubt the journalist’s sentiment that ‘Dr. Lloyd-Jones smiles when he thinks of the strange part a boyish ambition played in his career’.29 It may well have been so. As yet, however, he was not clear as to where his future lay. Murray draws attention to how successful and promising