A NOTED VISITOR
PROFESSOR A. E. ALBISTON
VISITING MASTERTON NEXT MONDAY.
Professor A. E. Albiston, who was yesterday the guest, of honour in a reception given by the Government to the Methodist Church representatives, it to visit Masterton on Monday next.
Professor Albiston is the PresidentGeneral of the Methodist Church of Australasia and he is paying an official visit to this Dominion in the Centennial year. He has a remarkable reputation throughout Australia as an orator. A vital, magnetic personality, he has manifested extraordinary pulpit power, while his preaching has been sustained on a high level of spirituality and his utterances have been intense and full of original thought. After a distinguished church record he became theological tutor and later Professor of Theology at the Methodist Queen’s College, which is affiliated with the University of Melbourne. Of distinguished scholastic attainments he has twice been elected president of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Professor Albiston is to be the guest of the Masterton Methodist Church on. Monday next when he will speak in lhe evening at a gathering arranged to welcome and honour him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1940, Page 4
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