The Washington herald., 1916-02-12
EPISCOPAL.

EPlSCUPAL.
Much interest is being manifested by
Sunday school teachers and the clergy in
the forthcoming visit to Washington of
Rev. Stewart u. fMitman, Phi. D., field
secretary of the board of religious edu-
cation of the Province of Washington.
DIR. Mitman will conduct teacher train
ing class at the parish hall Of Epiphany
Church. 1876 @ street northwest, on Feb
ruary II. IS. Is, 81. g and IS at 4;45 O'Clock.
The class lis open without charge to all
interested persons. both men and women,
whether Sunday school teachers or not
Each member of the class who attends
all the sessions and completes the work
will receive a certificate from the general
board which will count toward the gen.
eral boards s. diploma as a licensed church
teacher. This class. which is held under
the auspices of the board of religious
education of the diocese of Washington,
offers rare opportunity to teachers and
to the clergy
While in Washington DR.. Mitmsn will
visit q number of the churches and
parochial teachers meetings.
The Sunday School Institute of the Dio-
cese of Washington will hold its regular
meeting in st. Margaret's Parish Hall.
Columbia road and Bancroft place north
west. Tuesday evening. February Is. at
7:S0 o'clock. Rev. Stewart U. Mitman.
Phi. D.. field secretary OF the board of
religious education OF the Province OF
Washington, will deliver the opening ad-
will be followed at $50 by separate con-
ferences for teachers of adult, senior.
Junior and primary classes. The recently
appointed diocesan superintendents for
these four departments of the Sunday
school. who will preside at these confer
ences are: Adult Mrs. L. II. Roome:
senior. Miss Ada B. Voute; Junior. Mrs.
Griffith L. Johnson; primary. Mrs. w. T
Hastings. At the adult conference DR.
Mitman will speak on the topic, The
Aim OF the Adult Class" at the senior
conference Canon W. L. De Vries, Phi. D..
will speak on Senior Problems and
Needs" at the Junior conference there
will be open discussion of Junior class
problems. and at the primary conference
Miss Emma Abbott will speak on "A
Method OF Training Primary Teachers"
The new Chapel of the Transfigura-
tion. a mission of Rock Creek Parish,
located on Gallatin street, between
Fourteenth street and Piney Branch
road, Piney Branch Park, will be
o'clock with elaborate services.
The services, consisting OF morning
prayer and a celebration OF the Holy
Communion. will be conducted by Rev
Charles Z. Buck, rector OF st. Paurs,
Rock Creek, assisted by Rev. Horace
Wood Stowell, minister in charge. and
Rev William L. De Vrles, canon of
the Washington Cathedral, who will
preach the sermon.
A special program Of music has been
prepared by the choir of the chapel
OF the TRANSPORTATION. For the morn
ing service, the music will include the
Festival Te Deum. by Dudley Buck.
which will be rendered by the Trans
hguration quartet.
At the evening service, at s o'clock,
the rector. DR.. Buck, will preach the
sermon and the music will be furnished
by the Transfsuration quartet
The new chapel. which was finally
completed and furnished this week, is
a beautiful and artistic structure, de-
signed along the lines of q combina-
tion Of Romanesque and Gothic archi-
lecture. The walls are of Potomac
stone and the roof OF slate. The in
terror is finished in solid oak and
chestnut, richly colored and carved.
The architect was Arthur NJ Burtt
a member of the congregation, and the
contractor, Frank L Wagner, of this
city.
The Mission Of the Transnguration
was organized in 1912. through the de-
voted efforts of a coterie of women of
the Episcopal Church residing IN Piney
Branch Park. Services were held. for
more than a year, on Sunday after
Moons in the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene e. Thompson. 1914 Delaheld
place. Since June. 1914, the services
have been held in the Chapel Hall,
erected by the Vestry of Rock Creek
Parish
In January. 1915, Rev. Horace Wood
Stowell, Of La Plata, Md. was called
by the vestry to become minister in
charge OF the Mission of the Transfg-
uration. On Easter Tuesday, 1918,
ground for the new church was broken,
and on May Is Rt. Rev. Alfred Hard
ing, Bishop of Washington. laid the
corner stone.
Rev. George Merrill. Of Stockbridee,
Mass, will preach tomorrow at IL o'clock
at st. Johns Church, Sixteenth and H
streets
guild service will be held tomorrow
evening at St Marks Church, when all
members of the church's guilds and or
ganizations will attend In a body Rev.
SolloH Sfflltn, feCtOT OF St. JOnn s
Church. Lafayette square, will preach
Rev. c. r. Stetson Is rector Of St. Marks
The Sunday school OF the Church Of
the Advent. Episcopal, has undergone
changes in the past year which are said
to augur well for the future success Of
the Sunday school and for the strength
ening Of the Church.
Both Canon DeVries and the bishop of
Washington spoke in glowing terms on
the occasion of visits to Advent Parish
OF the progress that has been made In
the building up of the Sunday school
The bishop remarked that the Advent
Sunday school had grown to be one of
the finest and largest in the whole do
cese Of Washington. In the place of the
old-style lesson leaflets. the officers of
the school have secured a series of les
sons, in the form of cloth bound books,
which are valuable enough for the pupil
to feel the necessity of keeping them. In
this series Is covered a systematic study
OF the life of Christ and the history Of
the church. The books are graded to suit
the needs Of children Of different ages
and the classes in the Sunday school are
so Divided that tho hooks will he t,lxoz