LINKS THAT BIND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 3

LINKS THAT BIND

DISTINGUISHED THEOLOGIAN

(By Telegraph—PresH Association)

AUCKLAND, 24th March

An example of the personal links which help to bind the two great Eng-lish-speaking peoples is found in Hie Rev. Hugh Black, Professor of Practical Theology, at I Ik; Union Theological Seminary, New Vork, who is a through passenger by the. Niagara t from Vancouver to Sydney. Dr. Black is a Scotsman, but he has held his present, position in New York for the past ,24, yearst v;.He/;]s on his way to occupy the pulpit of Scots Church, Melbourne, for a period of three mouths under the Turnbull Foundation, an endowment established for the purpose of giving Melbourne Presbyterians the opportunity of hearing distinguished visiting preachers at yearly intervals. Two years ago his younger brother, the Rev. Dr. .lames Black, minister of St. Geoige's United Free Church, Edinburgh, was selected preacher. The Union Theological Seminary is one of the largest institutions of its kind in America, and is famous the world over. It is affiliated to Columbia University, and is entirely undenominational, students being drawn from all religious bodies, the Roman Catholic Church nxcluded. "We have even a few Jew; on our register," said Dr. Black. Homan Catholics would be quite free to come if they chose to do so.