Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05

visitors from as far as the Pacific Coast
have made pilgrimages to Washington
Cathedral. After the principal services
today, members of the clergy staff will
show visitors through the Cathedral
and about the grounds, including the
Bishops Garden, famed for its ancient
hedges and plants from all parts of the
world
Festival services with sermons arctic
be conducted simultaneously in the three
completed chapels of the great edifice
at IL am. and pm, so that sufficient
accommodations may be available for
the throngs expected. Services also are
to be held at 1880, $3.50 and 10 am, and
the open-air amphitheater on the
Cathedral hillside may be used for
overflow congregations if necessary.
Bishop Freeman to Preach.
The Right Rev. James e. Freeman.
Bishop of Washington, will preach at
the o'clock service in the Bethlehem
Chapel. His message will be broadcast
over Station WMAL. Easter sermons
also are to be delivered by the Rev. c..
Freeland Peter, canon and chancellor
of the cathedral: Canon Arson Phelps
Stokes. Canon Edward S. Dunlap, the
Rev. John w. Gummere and the Rev.
Alfred j. Wilder
At the Franciscan Monastery. where
the underground catacombs are OF great
interest to visitors, mass will be celebrat-
ed hourly from 6 to 8 o'clock this
morning, followed by solemn high
mass at 9 O'Clock and compline and
solemn benediction at $50 o'clock in
the afternoon. Visitors are welcome.
Mgr. Bernard A. McKenna will
off1ciate at the Easter services in the
NrY1t nf "a IF fH11
Immaculate Conception. There will be
masses at 8 and 10 o'clock and vesper
service at o'clock.
Scouts to Hold Services.
The NTH annual Easter eventide
service at the Sylvan Theater, near the
washington Monument, will be held
under the auspices Of the National and
International Community Bible Readers
League, Inc, in the open air from 4:30
to 6 o'clock, unless it rains, In which
event the ceremony will take place on
the south portico of the Treasury.
There will be flag ceremonies in con-
nection with the service conducted by
Boy Scouts, under the direction of Capt.
Charles A. Bell, field executive. This
will consist of the massing of the colors.
with Boy Scout buglers participating,
and the audience will join in the
pledge to the Flag"
Col. E. L. Maurice, vice president of
che Bible Readers League, will preside
and the Elks' Boys Band will give a
patriotic and religious concert. DR..
Chesteen Smith of the Hamline M E.
Church will deliver the invocation and
Mrs. Louise H. Earll, president of the
league, will make an address of well
come. A Girl Scout chorus will sing
and Chaplain E. Earl Boyd of the Army
will make the address. A thousand
copies Of the Gospel of st. Luke will be
distributed as souvenirs.
Potted plants will be distributed to
1000 patients today in Emergency, Gar
field, George Washington and the
Homeopathic Hospitals, under the direc-
ton of the Washington Federation of
Churches. This idea originated several
years ago with Mrs. Elizabeth Whiteford
Murray, the organizations hospital
worker
At various other hospitals in the city
groups of young people will sing Easter
carols in the wards and distribute let
tiers of good cheer to the shut-ins.