Oliver Wendell Homes Choice of a Career

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years. His keen mind and work earned him the unofficial title of “the greatest justice since John Marshall." At one point in his life, Justice Holmes explained his choice of a career by saying: “I might have entered the ministry if certain clergymen I knew had not looked and acted so much like undertakers.” (Moody Bible Institute’s Today In The Word, June, 1988, p. 13).