Which World?
Illustration
by Michael P. Green

William Kelly was an outstanding student of the Bible whose scholarship and spirituality made him a real power for God in Great Britain at the close of the last century. Kelly had once helped a young relative prepare for Trinity College in Dublin and in this way came to the attention of the professors there. They urged him to take up work at the college and thus distinguish himself. When Kelly showed a compete lack of enthusiasm for their suggestion, they were nonplussed. One of them asked in exasperation, “But Mr. Kelly, aren’t you interested in making a name for yourself in the world?”

To which Kelly adroitly replied, “Which world, gentlemen?”

Baker Books , 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green