Evening star., 1923-11-14
DIR. Mann TO OPEN
EPISCOPAL SYNOD.
Pittsburgh Bishop Will
Preach at Epiphany Church
Next Tuesday.

Rt. Rev. DR.. Alexander Mann,
Bishop of the Episcopal Church in
the diocese of Pittsburgh, will be the
preacher at the opening service OF
the seventh synod of the Province
! of Washington. which will be held
/ In the Church OF the Epiphany on Tues
day morning, November 20. at 10
o'clock.
Bishop William Cabell Brown, d. D..
of Richmond. Va, who is president
of the synod, will read his annual
address at the business meeting.
which will be held in Epiphany Par
ish Hall Immediately after the serv-
ice. This session will be attended
by the delegates to the conventions
| of womeiis organizations meeting in
this city at the same time. as well
as by the fifteen bishops of the Epis-
copal Church and the 104 clerical and
lay deputies from the thirteen do
ceses in the five states which COM
pose the Province of Washington.
There VIII be no special speakers
at the meeting of the synod on Tues
day afternoon. At 2:30 pm. at ST
Johns Church. 18th and II streets
northwest, Mrs. Marcellin c. Adams
OF Pittsburgh. provincial president OF
the Woman's Auxiliary, will make
her annual report.
Wednesday-Th Sessions.
Sessions Of the synod and of the
woman's organizations will also be
held on Wednesday and Thursday. be-
ginning at $3.50 am. In the morn
tngs organizations will meet sep
the central part of the city, but In
the afternoons joint sessions will be
held. at which the men of the snyod
and the woman. delegates will meet
together. The joint session on We'd
esday afternoon will be held in the
sethlehem Chapel of the National
Cathedral, on Mount st. Alban.
Each evening there will be a great
mass meeting to which the public is
these meetings will be held in the
Church of the Epiphany. and ON
Thursday evening in st. Johns Church.
The meeting Tuesday night will be
addressed by Rev. William E. Gard
department of religious education of
the National Council of the Episcopal
Church, on THE Youth Movement" :"
and by Rev. James S. Russell, d. D..
Of st. Pagl Industrial School
Education Among the Negroes"
Son OF Slave.
a
slave, but shortly after the civil war
was educated by a Virginia friend and
attended the Hampton Institute and
the Bishop Payne Divinity School.
He has received the degree Of doc
tor of divinity from the Virginia
Theological Seminary, in Alexandria,
the first negro to be so honored and
one of the few honorary degrees ever
conferred by the seminary. He has
built up almost entirely by his own
efforts a prosperous industrial and
normal school for colored boys and
girls, and in which. during the past
thirty-f1ve years, six thousand young
people have received training.
On Wednesday evening the mass
meeting will be addressed by Rev.
Charles N. Lathrop, executive secre-
tary of the department of Christian
social service of the National Coun-
ell, on the subject Social Service
Work of the Church"
The mass meeting on Thursday
evening will be held in st. Johns
Church, 18th and H streets north
west, at pm, and will be given
over to a consideration of the con-
dition Of the church in Japan since
the recent earthquake. The speak
ers will be Rt. Rev. H. st. George
Tucker, d. D., Bishop of Koyto, and
the Rev. c. s. Reifsnider, L. H. D.,
president of St. Paul University,
Toxic.