Evening star., 1925-01-31
EPISCOPAL Church
PLANS CONVENTION
Annual Assembly of Wash
ington Diocese at st. Al
bans Wednesday.

The annual convention of the
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Washington will meet in st. Adams
Church next Wednesday at 10 am.
The convention is composed of the
Bishop Of Washington as president,
OF all the Episcopal clergymen Off
cially connected with the diocese, and
of as many lay delegates from every
regularly established parish as there
are ministers attached TO the parish.
The convention is the legislative
body OF the diocese and its time is
devoted to receiving reports from its
various boards and committees and to
deciding the further action in each
case.
Innovation Is Announced.
An innovation this year consists in
having the bishop read his annual ad
dress at a special meeting to be held
in the Church of the Epiphany Tues
day evening, instead of on the first
morning of the convention. This will
allow the bishop to reach a larger
audience and at the same time per-
NIT the delegates to consider and di-
gest his recommendations before they
are called on to vote. Furthermore.
it will shorten the proceedings of the
convention.
There will be a service of holy
communion in Bethlehem Chapel of
the National Cathedral Wedne sday
morning at s o'clock, following
which breakfast will be served in 81,
Adams Guild Hall. The convention
will assemble in 81. Adams Church
At 10 am.
At the close of the convention
Wednesday, about O'Clock, the dele
gates will be received by Bishop and
Ire . gzl
At $50 o'clock the delegates will be
The guests OF the bishop and chapter
of the cathedral at dinner in st. AL
bans Guild Hall. Right Rev. Thomas
+. Gailor, D. D., Bishop of Tennessee
and president Of the National Council
of the Episcopal Church in America,
viii make an address describing the
needs of the general church. After
this there will be social.
VIII RcassembIe Thursday.
The convention will reassemble in
st. Adams Church Thursday morn
Ing at an hour to be fixed by vote of
the convention. 1t is expected that
il will complete its business before
adjournment that day.
The election of four clergymen
and four laymen to represent. the dio-
cese of Washington at the general
which will meet in New Orleans next
October, and the election OF members
Of the standing committee of the dio-
cese, which at the present time is
short one member due to the recent
death of J. Holdsworth Gordon, will
be held.
Economy in the administra ton of
the business of the diocese is one
of the matters which will receive
considerable attention from the con-
vention.
May Take Up Church ConsOIId alton.
The convention, it is said, may be
called on to consider the consolida-
tion of certain churches, where con-
ditions in the neighborhood do not
seem to warrant the maintenance of
two places of worship. In other To-
calities 1t may be desirable to erect
new chapels. All other matters re-
lating TO the diocese as q whole, and
especially to it's local missionary
work, will be considered by the con-
Vention. The diocese includes the
parishes of the Episcopal Church in
Montgomery, Prince Georges, Charles
and st. Marys Counties of Maryland
as wen as in the District Of Co
lumbia