Evening star., 1925-06-10
CLERGYMEN GUESTS
At BISHOPS HOUSE
Dr.. Freeman and Wife Give
Reception to Summer Con-
ference Visitors.

Right Rev. James f. Freeman.
Bishop of Washington, and Mrs. Free
man are giving a reception at the
bishops house this afternoon for the
clergy of the diocese in compliment
to the visiting Episcopal clergymen
who are attending the Summer con-
ference of the College of Preachers
which is in session on Mount ST.
Alban this week
Very Rev. q. c. F. Brate enahl, dean
of Washington; Rev. DIR. William l..
De Vries, chancellor of the cathedral.
and Rev. Walden Myer, canon of
Washington, will assist Bishop Free
man and Mrs. Freeman in welcoming
the clergymen. The guests will be in
troduced by Right Rev. Philip M
Rhinelander, ID. D., LII. D., former
Bishop of Pennsylvania and now
canon of the cathedral, who is director
and chaplain of the College of
Preachers.
Among the visiting clergymen who
are giving advice to the cathedral
authorities in charting program for
the college are Very Rev. Hughell E.
w. Fosbroke. dean of the General
Theological Seminary, New York;
Rev. Frederick S. Fleming, rector of
the Church of the Atonement, Chi
cago; Rev. Aa4lur j. Gammack, rector
of Christ Church. F'itchburg. Mass
and Rev. j. Wilson Sutton, vicar of
Trinity Chapel, New York City.
Including clergymen from the dio-
cese of Washington. the conference
is being attended by approximately
70 members.
Purposes Of Meetings.
Bishop Rhinelander announced this
afternoon the threefold purpose of this
first series of Summer meetings. The
conference aims to give special train
ing in prophetic preaching to selected
clergymen and to increase their eff
fectiveness. Secondly, the conference
is laying plans for the establishment
of permanent college of preachers
as one of the major contributions
made by Washington Cathedral to
the church and to the Nation. Bishop
Rhinelander said that the cathedral
authorities hope to erect a building
within the next few years 10 be de-
voted to this purpose. The first wing
of the Cathedral Library, an impor-
tant adjunct of the college of preach
ers, has just been finished and will be
equipped for theological research work
this Autumn. a
The final purpose of the Skinner
conference is to gather practical sug-
gestions for special preaching mis-
slons adopted to selected localities and
also to certain groups of people who
are believed to be out of touch with
Christ and His church
Opens With Conference.
The daily program for the meetings
held in Whitby Hall. Woodley road
and 36th street, begins with an in
formal conference on THE Living God
of nn,
Quoted by Dean Fosbroke.
This is followed by Bishop Rhine
lander's daily talk ON THE Explain
ing of the Christian Religion as the
Substance Of Our Teac ching" The
afternoon is left free for recrea ton
and rest until SIS when there is a
third conference on obstruction in
the Spiritual Life" conducted by DR..
Sutton, Mr.. Fleming or Mr.. Gam.
mack.
After dinner the members of the
conference meet for informal discus
sion to give Bishop Rhinelander and
the cathedral staff their practical sug-
geStions on the methods required TO
carry out the program outlined in the
lectures.
Last evening Bishop Freeman
talked for an hour on the practical
lessons that have come to him after
81 years in the ministry. He told the
conference that his experience in
Washington since he came here from
Minneapolis in 1921 indicates clearly
that preaching of the right sort was
never more popular than it is today.
Mr.. Gammack gave interesting i'm
pressions of the recent preaching mis-
sion in Fitchburg, Mass, saying that
he noted a quickening of interest in
religion among the young people fol-
lowing the series of sermons preached
in the streets, in the factories and
from other pulpits outside the church
buildinge
The conference wifi continue until
Saturday morning