Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-06
NATIONAL Church
PLANS PROGRESS
Presbyterian Assembly May
20 to June 4 to Hear Wash
ington Project Reports.

Plans for the establishment OF a
National Presbyterian Church in Wash
ington. with the Church of the Cove
nan;, at Eighteenth and N streets, as
the foundation, are rapidly progressing
according to two official reports to be
made to the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church, which will meet
in Cincinnati May 20 to June 4.
In one report DR.. Charles Wood,
former pastor of the Church of the
Covenant and president of the Cor
poration of the National Capital Pres
byterian Church, advises the General
Assembly of an anonymous gift of S42S,-
900 to the commission, the first 100000
of which is contingent upon $the COM
mission securing a similar sum.
Gift Brings Satisfactiop.
The General Council expresses it's sat
isfaction regarding this gift and the
hope that this substantial offer may
open the way for a more rapid develop
ment of the project of the National
Capital Presbyterian Church. The
council in the report sets forth def
mite procedure which, it says, should be
taken as soon as possible, and expresses
its Judgment that much of the success
of the enterprise will depend upon the
proper alignment of Presbyterian inter-
ests in Washington, and says 1t hopes
that the reorganized commission will
make thorough and impartial survey
of the Presbyterian situation here In
order to accomplish the most desirable
results in connection with the proposed
project.
The moderator appointed a special
committee to present the foregoing &C
ton to the National Capital Presby-
terrain Commission, the incorporators
and the trustees, and to assist them in
carrying out the proposed changes in
plan and procedure. This committee
will report to the General Council The
members of the committee. DR.. William
H. Foulkes, chairman; DR.. Lewis 5.
Nudge and George G. Barber of the
General Council and DR.. Charles r. Erd-
man, met several months ago at an eX-
tended conference, during which all
phases of the situation we're presented.
Later reports were made to the chair
man from the Church of the Covenant,
New York Avenue Church and from the
senior elder of First Church.
Negotiations for Union,
The National Capital Presbyterian
Commission will make report to the
General Assembly in connection with the
It states: THE trustees of the Ma
tional Church, Inc, and the Church of
the Covenant have been negotiating
q union. If these negotiations result
as they at present indicate, the Church
of the Covenant will become the foun-
dation on which the national church
will be established, and the national
church will have this strong and inf1u-
entail congregation as its initial and
organizing unit"
The trustees also report 1t is their
purpose to seek in Washington and
elsewhere at once the funds needed to
put into effect the prospective union
with the Church of the Covenant.
The local commission in he report
calls attention to the recent erection of
the new Fourth. Sixth and Chevy Chase
churches. the proposed erection of a
new Western and First churches, and
the recent addition of several new pas
tors, among whom is DR.. Albert j. Nc
Cartney at the Church of the Covenant
The commission consists of George
B. Stewart, chairman; Dr. Charles
Wood, DR.. Wallace Radcliffs, Dr. John
C. Palmer, John Timothy Stone, DR..
Charles r. Erdman, Mark A. Matthews,
Thomas E. Finegan. Harrison B. Smith,
Richard p. Ernst, A. c. Ernst and John
M. T. Finney.