Evening star., 1928-05-12
WORK ON PREACHER
COLLEGE TO START
Plans Announced for Laying
OF Corner Stone Next
Thursday.

The corner stone of the College of
Preachers will be laid at Washington
Cathedral and the annual meeting of
the National Cathedral Association will
be held at Mount st. Alban next Thurs
day.
Representatives of the g. committees
of the National Cathedral Association.
which now has a membership of more
than 5000 persons, will be present from
many cities. notably New York. Boston.
Philadelphia. Detroit, Dayton, Cleee-
land and indianapolis.
Members of the national committee
of Washington Cathedral which is
headed by Gen. John j. Persling. have
also been invited to be present, as well
as the national executive committee OF
the cathedral
Program Announced.
The program for the day will be as
follows: Celebration of the holy COM
muni0n for the National Cathedral AS
sociation in the Bethlehem Chapel at
10 am. At IL am. the annual business
meeting Of the National Cathedral AS
sociation viii begin in Whitby Hall
with an opening address by Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash
incton. There will also be addresses
hy the Assistant Secretary of State.
William r. Castle. ir., and former Sena-
tor George Wharton Pepper OF Pennsyl-
vania. who is chairman of the national
executive committee for Washington
Cathedral.
Reports will be given by committees,
after which buffet luncheon viii be
served. If the weather permits. After
the luncheon pilgrimage to the crypt
chapels of Washington Cathedral and
the Bishops garden will be conducted
by Very Rev G. c. F. Bratenahi, dean
OF Washington.
The laying of the corner stone will
take place at 8 pm. The site Of the
college is located Just north of the
cathedral itself, near the Completed
apse. The structure will be of collie
giate Gothic design. to harmonic with
the general architectural scheme of the
cathedral.
$25a,o0o Gift Received.
Some time ago Bishop Freeman an
nounced the gift from a layman of
S250,000 for the College of Preachers
Building and an endowment yielding
$4,000 yearly income from its mainte-
nance. This makes possible its inn
mediate erection and construction upon
1t will begin at once after laying of the
CORNER Sb0F6. i ne OOIlDT mas requested
that his name be withheld from pub
ucation.
Right Rev. Philip NJ Rhinelander is
acting warden of the College of Preach
ers as well as canon of Washington
Cathedral and former Bishop OF PENN
sylvaffia For the past three years
Bishop Rhinelander has been untiring
in developing the idea of the College
Of Preachers Already there has been
held number of conferences TO which
men have come from all parts of the
country for intensive study and two
successful Summer conferences for
ciergymen have been held under the
auspices OF the College of Preachers.
When the College of Preachers is
completed IL is planned TO afford, under
the best auspices and ablest teachers.
facilities for advanced study In the
high art of preaching The late Right
Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee. first Bishop
of Washington. foresaw such school
OF the Prophets" and his dream is now
coming true in the College of Preach
ers. the first of its kind on this conti-
nent. whose corner stone will be laid
Thursday