Evening star., 1923-07-07


been arranged to be held at the Nation
al Cathedral during the summer. on
Sundays at pm.
These services have been arranged
as part of the plan to make the
National Cathedral a national pulpit
where men of ability and recognition
in the Episcopal Church may express
their views.
The speakers and brief sketch of
each follows:
July s-Rey. DIR. John c. H. Mock
ridge, rector of St. James Church. Phil
adelphia, Pa. DIR. Mockridge Is a Cana
dian by birth and graduated from the
famous church college. Trinity College,
Toronto, some thirty years ago. He
came into the United States as rector
in 1897, and since then has rendered
service to st. Andrews. Detroit; ST.
Pauls Church, Louisville, KY; Trinity
Chapel, New York city. He was a
deputy to the general convention from
in 1910. He has been rector OF st.
James Church since 1915, and has
given 1t a notable position In Phila-
delphia because Of its beautifully or
dered worship. it's music and Its ac-
July Is-Rev. w. A. McClenthen.
rector of Mount Calvary Church, Bal
tlmore, Md. Father McClenthen Is rec
tor of a church which has always been
notable since it's foundation, some
seventy-fve years ago. as taking an
advanced and leading position In the
ritual of it's worship and in the
catholics character of Its teachlns.
Father McClenthen is PENNSYLVANIA;
graduating from the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA in 1890 and the General
Theological Seminary three years later
He began his ministry as an assistant
priest in the famous st. Clement
Church. Philadelphia, and moved TO
| Paurs School. in 1906. He has been
rector of Mount Calvary since 1908. He
is a preacher Of unusual power ana
eloquence.
chaplain. United States Marine Corps.
! Quantico. Va Dr. Niver entered the
national service as chaplain In the
| Marine Corps at the beginning or the
war and proved such a potent force
with the men that the goyernment
! has retained his services at Quantlco,
! where he is the post chaplain, ana Is
most popular with both the ofncers
! and enlisted men. He was for many
years rector of Christ Church, Baiti-
more. and represented the Diocese OF
| Maryland In six general conventions.
! He Is q native of New York ana was
! educated at Brown University, ProVi-
! dence: George Washington University
! and at the Virginia and Cambridge
; theological seminaries: He has been
! in the ministry some thirty years.
July 29-Rev. ROnalds Taylor. pastor
! of students, University OF Maryland.
When Bishop Harding and Canon De.
Vries, on behalf of the Diocese or
+, on behalf of the provincial board
| OF religious education, were search
| ing the country for a suitable man
| to be the first student chaplain on
! the new Episcopal Church Founda.
ton for Students, in the process OF
! establishment at the University of
| Maryland. College Park, they hnaliy
found at Westernport. Md, Rev.
Ronalds Taylor and gave him the po-
| sition, in which he has made wonder
fully good. He is the only resldent en-
pastor of any church at College Park,
| and thus occupies a unique position,
which he has improved to the utmost.
| Mr.. Taylor graduated from western
! Maryland College about dozen years
ago, and after four or five successful
Years in the Methodist ministry was
| ordained to the ministry Of the
| Episcopal Church by Bishop Murray
! of Maryland in 1917 and appointed
rector OF st. James Parish. Western :
to College Park in 1920. Mr.. Taylor
is a preacher of the evangelical type,
possessed of fervor and force not
common in the pulpit of the Episcopal
Church at the present time.
August -Rev. DIR. Ralph IL. Pomeroy.
professor in the General Theological
Seminary, New York City. Prof.
Pomery is one of the most thoughtful,
well equipped and effective preachers
in the Episcopal Church. always
cisive insight and effectiveness. He
has often preached at the Peace Cross
! in former years, and is one OF the
most popular of those who occupy
this pulpit. He holds the chair of
ecclesiastical polity and canon law In
the General Theological Seminary: He
has been in the ministry about
| twenty years, and his greatest field Of
service in the church was from 1906
to 1917 at Trinity Church, Princeton.
n. j., where he addressed himself
with great success to work among the
students in the university and where
he has left behind him a very fragrant
memory in Trinity parish, whose beau
tiful church he did much TO embellish.
August 12-Rev. Karl NJ. Block,
rector of St. Johns Church. Roanoke,
Va. In the preacher at the open air
service on August II the cathedral
recalls 10 Washington one OF the Dis
trict's own native sons. Mr.. Block was
born In this city some thirty-fve years
ago, was brought up In ST. Marks
parish under Canon De Vries. and was
educated at the Eastern High School,
George Washington University and the
Virginia Theological Seminary. His
ministry has been spent partly as chap
lain at the famous Woodbury. Forest
School, at Orange, Va; as church chap
lain at Camp Dix, to which he rem
dered wonderful service during the
war; as rector at Haddonfield, n. j.,
and Norristown, Pa. and now at
Roanoke. Mr.. Block is one Of the lead
ers of our provincial and national
church work in the fields of religious
education and the youth movement. and
he Is a preacher of real eloquence and
grace.
August Is-Rev. Noble c. Powell,
rector of ST. Pauls Memorial Church,
University Of Virginia. Mr.. Powell is
probably the ablest man and the most
successful in the service of the church
on behalf of students. He was
especially selected for the work at the
University of Virginia. of which he is
| a graduate, as well as the Virginia
| Theological Seminary. though a native
of Alabama. He was formerly a civil