A RELIGIOUS INVASION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 15 June 1907, Page 4

A RELIGIOUS INVASION.

The Tailed Stales in March bail a delightful invasion of Knglish and Scotti-n roligioiH leaders. The l.ile l)i'. -lolin Watson (lan Maclarnn'i was preaching in New Vork and Bo>tou to very large con 1 grey,al ions. Dr. Peter T. l-'orMth. Principal of Hackney College, London. delivereil a series of lectures at the Vale Divinity School. The course is known as the Lyman Beecher lectures., and is one of the highest honors within the gift of Vale. The lectureship lias been filled in former years by such distinguished Britons as the late Dr. Dale and Professor Oorge Adam Smith. Professor •Tames Orr, of the United Free Church College in (llasgow, was to deliver ten lectures in New York in April on "The Virgin Birth." Those lectures grow out of extensive recent correspondence with twenty-five representative scholars in Ureal Britain, on the Continent, and in the railed Stales, wlio were asked fo submit to Dr. Orr their views on thi-i I heme. Portions of what they have wrili.en will be incorporated info bis lectures, and the combined work will be published in mok form. The 'Rev. Thomas Law, secretary nf the VrPe Church Council of Creat Britain, "invaded" the United States in April, and several other prominent English clergymen were expected.