GREAT PREACHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 12

GREAT PREACHER.

DR. F. W. NORWOOD

WEEK-END IN AUCKLAND. RECEPTION ON MONDAY, The great Australian preacher, who is at present minister of the City Temple, London, Dr. F. W. Norwood, arrived in Auckland by the Kotorua express this afternoon. lie is in the course of a world tour, gathering information about international problems and missionary activities. He will leave by the Aorangi on Tuesday, but in the Week-end he lias a full programme ol addressing public meetings and preaching in churches. While in Auckland he will be at the Hotel Stonehurst.

The first public address will bo given in the Town Hall this evening, when Dr. Norwood will speak 011 "Peace and War —the Prospect," under the auspices of the League of Nations Union. Tomorrow afternoon lie will again be in the Town Hall, this time 011 behalf of the Auckland Y.M.C.A. In the morning to-morrow he will preaclx at the View Road Congregational Church, and in the evening at the Beresford Street Congregational Church.

Dr. Norwood will be accorded a civic reception 011 Monday at 110011, after which he will be the guest of Auckland ministers and clergy at a lunch in

Messrs. Milne and Choree's reception hall. About 90 are expected to attend. On Monday evening he will speak at the Beresford Street Church under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society. His War Career. Prior to the war, Dr. Norwood was doing the quiet work of a Baptist minister in a. church outside Melbourne. But during the war lie represented the Y:M.C.A. with the Australian troops in France. While on leave from France lie was given the opportunity of occupying the pulpit of the City Temple for several weeks. After the Armistice he returned to Australia to take up the national religions work secretaryship of the Australian Y.M.C.A.'s, but before launching on this work received a call from the City Temple to be its minister. At liis welcome meeting in London, Dr. Norwood said, "you have either tempted nie to my breaking or encouraged me to my making, the future alone will show which." In 1926 Dr. Norwood went on a three months' preaching tour of "Canada and the United States, and then devoted a six months' campaign at the request of tlid League of Nations Union to the cause of peace. He visited all parts of Great Britain, and the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed the wish that all Anglican cathedrals should be opened to him.

Since leaving London, Dr. Norwood has been to London Missionary Society centres in many parts of the world. At Wellington he was received by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe.