VISITING DOMINION

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 7

VISITING DOMINION

Leading Theologians From

America

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Auckland, July 8.

Two of America’s leading theologians, Dr. Walter M. Horton and Professor Henry Van Dusen, arrived by the Monterey on a short visit to New Zealand. Dr. Horton is Professor of Theology at Oberlin College, Ohio, and Professor Van Dusen belongs to the Theological Vnion Seminary, New York. They will attend the third International Missionary Conference at Madras in December.

"There is a rising tide of Christianity in the churches in the world to-day, the most potent since the Reformation,” said Professor Van Dusen. “This movement is inter-denominational, and its momentum may be gauged by the fact that the Episcopal Church (the Anglican Church in the United States) recently voted unequivocally to effect union with the Presbyterian Church.” He added that the North and South Methodist Churches, which bad been divided since the clash over the slave question, had voted for complete reunion. This was the largest single church in the United States of America.