Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-04
THIRD PREACHERS
COLLEGE TO MEET
Summer Conference to Be
Held June 13 to 10
at Cathedral.

The third annual College of Preachers
Summer Conference of Washington
Cathedral will be held June 10 to IS
with an attendance of clergymen from
many States at the Cathedral Offices
on Mount st. Alban. The officers of
the conference are: Warden and
chaplain. Right Rev. Philip NJ. Rhine
lander. formerly Bishop of Pennsyl-
wanna and now canon of Washington
Cathedral; assistant director, Rev.
DR.. w. l.. DeVries. chancellor of
Washington Cathedral and registrar,
Rev. {. +. Buck, rector of Christ
Church. Washington parish.
All services of the conference, in
Guiding the meditations, will be held
in the Bethlehem Chapel, except
compline final services before return
ing for the night. which will be in
the little sanctuary. All conferences,
lectures and group discussions will be
held in Whitby Hall, except as other
wise announced.
Out-of-tOwn students will live at
Whitby Hill and at st. Adams School
for BOYS in the Cathedral Close, which
will he closed for the Summer at the
time of the conference.
Third Annual Conference.
This will be the third of the annual
conferences Of clergy held in prepare
ton for the permanent organization
of the College of Preachers of Wash
ington Cathedral. Its aim is TO give
training in preaching and especially
to equip men to reach those who are
out of touch with Christ and His
Church This year special emphasis
will he put on the technique of
preaching.
IL believe the church will have,
must have, somewhere, somehow"
said Bishop Rhinelander, "a special
post -graduote school for the training
and equipping of its evangelistic
teachers. If it is not here, it will be
elsewhere. We should at once have
a building. to make our work perma-
nent and active all the year round, and
permanent resident head. To-
wards the building we have rather
more than $4,000 now. We need
100000 more before we can begin to
put up the first unit of the proposed
structure"
Program for Sessions,
The program for this years Sum-
mer conference will be as follows:
June 1S--Registration greeting and
fellowship meeting, Cathedral Library,
s to $50 pm.
June 14-After religious exercises
the first lecture will be given by Rev.
DIR. w. {. Woods of Kent School,
Connecticut. on Evolution and the
Incarnation. DIR. Woods will continue
his lecture on Wednesday. Thursday
and Friday Rev. Leonard Hodgson of
the General Theological Seminary,
New York. will lecture on Preaching
on the Atonement."
At noon each day a conference will
be held with the lecturers after dis
cussion groups have met from IL am.
to HAS am. A second lecture will
be given on Thursday and Friday by
Prof. Charles s. Baldwin of Columbia
University, New York. on Preaching
as Public Speaking" Practice and
discussion groups will be held under
the direction of Prof. Baldwin. On
Friday night an address will be given
by Right Rev. Thomas c. Darst,
Bishop of East Carolina and chairman
of the National Commission on
Evangelism, on "F'ollowup of the
Bishops Crusade" The last gather
ing of the conference will be for cele-
bration of the holy communion and
an address in the Bethlehem Chapel
June IS.