Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
CHURCH BUILDING
TO Be DEDICATED
Episcopal Leaders Plan Cere-
monies on Mount st. AIban
Thursday.

With the members of the House oi
Bishops and other distinguished lead
ers of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States In attendance, the
College of Preachers Building on Mount
st. Alban will be dedicated Thursday
Among the speakers will be Rev
Frank Theodore Woods, Bishop of Win
chester, England, who will come tt
Washington to participate. Rev. James
E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, and
Rev. Philip NJ. Rhinelander, former
Bishop of Pennsylvania, also are on the
program.
The building was constructed through
the generosity of the late Alexander
Smith Cochran of YonkerS, N. Y. He
contributed 100000 for the erection OF
the structure and $l,000,000 for the
endowment and maintenance of the
work. The enterprise commentaries
the name of the donors mother, the
late Mrs. William F. Cochran.
Purpose of Structure.
The new structure is to house an
institution providing post-ordination
training of clergymen. The purpose is
to bring their sacred profession into
line with the scientific standards of the
current era" 1t also is planned to pre-
pare evangelistS and missionaries.
WHEY JIl0 COIUCI SOOtlS Vi lIlC
ing was laid on Ascension day, May
II, 1928, Bishop Freeman stated the
purpose of the College of Preachers in
these words: The, supreme end and
purpose of the Christian religion is the
enfranchisement and enrichment Of the
human soul. To interpret to men the
mind of the Master; to give them an
understanding of the deep and satisfy
ing values of life; to teach them to en-
ioI,t he e.
Walton, is the high and holy privilege of
the Christian ministry. To this end the
college is founded in the sure confidence
that the bulwark and sustaining
strength of the Nation is in an abiding
and unchanging practice of the Chris
tian religion.
Comprehensive Vision of Church.
"The college is designed to give to
its students a comprehensive and
broadly Catholic vision of the history
and unity of the Christian church since
its inception. 1t will lay unfailing
emphasis on those central and eternal
teachings of the Master which secure
to the Christian ministry its power and
uSefulnesS-through its sacramento of
fee in the priesthood through its edi-
flying and inspiraticnal Office in the
prophethood, and through its comfort
s'A6 nAA0 NOAASSAhAN O4AANC AL Vic pdoJOl~
hood"
In further explanation of the plans
for the institution, Bishop Freeman has
said: Our generation has witnessed
a serious decline in the prophetic power
Of the church. 1t is our hope and ex-
pectation. when once this college is
built and men of inspirational power
are here to train those who are to be
sent forth as evangeliStS, that a new
day will dawn for our church, and its
hallowed Offices receive freshened i'm
pulse and deepened devotion We dare
to believe that in time as critical as
the present, when old things are passing
away and innovations and uses foreign
to this church are being discussed and
practiced, when the clamorous voices of
those who do violence to ancient tradi-
tons, creeds and systems are being
heard that such a college as this will
be more to stabilize and strengthen the
church's ministry than the many
agencies and mechanisms which it has
called into being in recent years. Att
such a time as the present, there is
need to emphasize those things which
lie at the very foundation of our house.
hold OF faith. those things that alone
can contribute to a finer appreciation
Of Its solidarity and essential unity"