GREAT PULPIT ORATOR

Evening Star, Issue 21717, 11 May 1934, Page 6

GREAT PULPIT ORATOR

ARRIVAL OF OR NORWOOD ’(Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 10. The Rev. Dr F. W. Norwood, of the City Temple, London, a distinguished preacher and one of the outstanding Congregationalists of the day, will arrive at Wellington from Australia on Juno 11. He is on a world tour, having recently visited South Africa. Japan, China, and India. He met and conversed with many of the leaders of political and religious life in those countries, including Mr Gandhi in India and Mr Kagawa in Japan. Of impressive appearance, Dr Norwood is one of the most prominent church leaders in England, and enjoys a wide popularity in the United States and Australia, where be began his ministry. He was born at Bendigo, Victoria, and before leaving for the war as a lecturer for the Young Men’s Christian Association he was, minister of Baptist' churches at Canterbury, Brunswick, and North Adelaide in South Australia. He was invited in 1919 to the City Temple, which is one of the principal pulpits in London and the stronghold of English Congregationalism, where he succeeded Dr Joseph Fort Newton, also a noted preacher. He speaks in conversation with deliberate thoughtfulness, expressing broad views of the troubles through which the world has been passing arid confidence in the future.