DR. J. MOFFAT

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 November 1934, Page 5

DR. J. MOFFAT

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND [PER press association.] AUCKLAND, November 17. “New Zealand has always been famous to me through its Maoris, its Rugby and its trout. I don’t know about its (Theology,” said Dr. James Moffatt, a distinguished Biblical scholar who arrived by the Monterey to-day. He told an interviewer that he preferred not to discuss “heavy” subjects so early in the morning. He said that professors during their Sabbatical year were supposed to travel and improve their minds. TJiat was wh'f, .fig left America and came to New Zealand. He wanted to catch some- front and . see something of Dunedin and meet former students and acquaintances. Dr. Moffatt said that one result of the depression in. the United States had been to drive the churches ba(?k to the central realities of faith, starting with the study of the Bible, and to cause the search to be for the meat and not the trimmings of life In Britain, there was outstanding evidence of vitality oh the part both of the Church of Scotland and the Church of England. The latter had shown .great vitality in the lead it had given in theological and Christian teaching. Dr. Moffatt remarked that he felt the United States had turned the corner of the depression. Mr. Roosevelt had three great assets. He was a first class politician, he was absolutely honest and he had no rival. Dr. Moffatt leaves for the south on Monday, and leaves the Dominion on December 1,1. • ■, .. <' ,