Evening star., 1928-10-10

pm. In the evening there will be a
| general reception to all delegates to the
convention at the Corcoran Art Gal
| lery.
The meetings for Saturday are head
ed by the national conference of
deaconesses at the House of Mercy,
Klingle road and Rosemont street. This
| will start at 8 am. with corporate
| communion. The conference will be
conducted by Right Rev. Philip M.
Rhinelander, assisted by DR.. George F.
Dudley. A trip to Mount Vernon on
the steamer Charles Manchester is plan
ned for the afternoon.
Bishop of Mexico Speaks.
There will be celebration of holy
communion in all the churches of the
diocese Sunday morning and the pull
pits will be filled by bishops or promi-
nent visiting clergymen. The triennial
conference of the Society of the
Nazarene will convene at Trinity Church
from 10 am. to 4 pm. This society is
concerned with the pract'ce of Chris
tian healing At 2:30 IN. there will
be birthday thank. yfering at the
Church of the Epiphany with an ad-
dress by the Bishop of Mexico. This
offering is made by the children of all
proceeds are devoted to missionary &C
tivities in a specific field, which is
changed from year to year. Thus the
proceeds of the offering at the last
triennial convention went for work in
Mexico, the result of which the bishop
will describe. At pm. will start the
great open-air service in the Cathedral
Close on Mount st. Alban. The speaker
will be the Right Rev. Thomas +.
Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee. The
National Commission on Evangelism
will hold mass meeting at the Church
of the Epiphany at pm.
Evangelism will be the keynote of the
present convention, and this mass
meeting is expected to be of outstand-
ing Importance in the general program.
Aside from the regular sessions on Mon
day. the chief event scheduled is the
mass meeting of the department of
missions at the Washington auditorium
at pm. The cause of both foreign
and domestic missions will be greatly
stressed throughout the convention, and
the keynote is expected to be sounded
at this meeting.
There will be two mass meetings
Tuesday evening. One, at ID. A. n.
Hall. will be in charge of the American
Church Institute for Negroes and will
be devoted to work among colored
people. The second will be a., mass
meeting on rural work at the Church
of the Epiphany. The principal speaker
will be Secretary of Agriculture Jardlne.
This meeting has been arranged by Rev.
w. H. Foreman, secretary for rural
work of the social service department OF
the church, who plans to make an
earnest plea to the general convention
90, zeal
with the rural problem for the next
three years. There will be addresses by
Right Rev. Irving Peake Johnson,
Bishop of Colorado, and others. The
program on which Rev. Foreman Is
working embodies an effort to arouse
| the church to a consciousness. of the
conditions in rural America, promo
ton of the efficiency of clergy and
laity at work in the country districts,
an increase in the number Of rural
clergy and a program of practical
methods of approach.
There will also be e. public meeting
! of deaconesses Tuesday evening at the
Washington Club. Right Rev. James
DeWolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode Island,
will preside.
Wednesday Busy Day.
Wednesday will be one of the busiest
days of the convention, with nearly
all the auxiliary organizations in ses-
sion. At 4:30 pm. Bishop and Mrs.
Freeman will hold a garden party in
honor of the bishops, clerical and lay
deputies. At 8 pm. there will be a
mass meeting of the department of
Christian social service at D. A. r..
Hall. The topic will be "The Church
in Industry" Bishop Murray will pre-
side. The chief speakers will be Will
liam Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and Spencer Miller,
| jr., consultant of the industrial division.
Mr.. Miller will lay before the conven-
ton a suggested labor policy, together
with report on the problem of modern
industrialism. Church officials have
made public the suggested labor pro-
gram for the church, one of the salient
features of which is the proposal that
| the church take the initiative in calling
conferences of representative church
men and employers in industries such