Evening star., 1937-04-27
BISHOP MCDOWELL
RITES TOMORROW
Services Will Be at Foundry
M. E.-BuriaI to Be
in Ohio.

Fraser Mcdowell, 70, former Methodist
Episcopal Bishop of the Washington
area, who died suddenly yesterday at
his home, 2400 Sixteenth street, will
be held at 230 pm tomorrow in
Foundry M. E. Church. Burial will be
in Delaware, Ohio, Thursday
Rev. DR.. Frederick Brown Harris,
pastor of Foundry Church, will be in
charge of the services. Addresses will be
delivered by Bishop Francis ]. McCon-
nell, resident Bishop of the New York
area. and Bishop Edwin H. Hughes
resident Bishop of Washington area
The services will be opened with Scrip
ture reading by Rev. DR.. G. Ellis Will
llams, superintendent of the Wash
lngton district of the Methodist Epis-
copal Churches. The Twenty third
Psalm will be read by Rev. Walter s
Jackson, Hagerstown, Md, and prayer
said by Rev DR.. James Shera Mont
gomery, chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatlves. Rev. DR.. J. M. NJ Gray
chancellor of American University
will deliver benediction.
Roper Heads Pallbearers.
A list of honorary pallbearers is
headed by Secretary of Commerce
Daniel c. Roper. The others are
Senator John G. Townsend, ir., of
Delaware, former Representative
Frederick Davenport iof New York
Representative Robert F. Rich of
Pennsylvania, Rev. DR.. A. ]. Nc
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DR.. F. A. Hornaday, Rev. Dr. w.
S. Abernethy, DR.. E. H. Cherrying-
ton, DR.. Ernest Lyons, Rev. DR.. J.
e Phelps Hand, Rev. DR.. R. F. Coates,
Rev. DR.. Charles w. Baldwin, DR.. Will
liam E. Gunby, Rev. DR.. Jacob S.
Payton, DR.. Walter S. Harbin, Rev.
DR.. Morris E. Swartz and DR.. Holt
Hughes.
The active pallbearers will be Rev.
John c. MILAN, Rev. Edward G..
Latch, Rev. ]. Luther Neff, Rev. Philip
c. Edwards, Rev. E. Barclay Wilcox,
Rev. Ralph D. Smith, Rev. William
A. Reese and Rev Edward A Love.
A brief service will be held at
pm. Thursday in Gray Chapel of Ohio
Wesleyan University, prior to the
burial.
Bishop Mcdowell had just returned
to his apartment from Morganton,
n. c., where he had been on a lecture
tour, when he was stricken with an
gina pectoriS. DR.. Frank A Hornaday
was summoned, but Bishop Mcdowell
was dead whey the physician arrived
The bishops secretary, Miss Maude
Wilson, was with him when he died.
Bishop Mcdowell recently had been
chairman of the Commission on Uni
flcation of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, an organization formed to
bring about the unifcation of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Meth
odist Protestant Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Served in Chicago.
He was resident Bishop of Chicago
from 1904 to 1916, and served here
from the latter year until retired in
1882. Until his retirement he served
for many years as president of the
Board of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals of his church. He
was one of the outstanding moral cru
saderS of his day. A large part of
the responsibility for Nationwide pro-
hlbition in the United States was given
him by his compatriots.
Bishop McDoWells power as a pull
pit orator placed him in a premier po-
sltion in his denomination. and he was
frequently called on to discourse be-
fore universities throughout the land.
Educational work was nearest to his
heart, but he was an able executive
and lived to see the major portion OF
his church program accomplished.
A pioneer also in quite another field,
he was among the early American golf
enthusiasts, having tackled the prob
lens of the green many years ago
and following the game keenly there
after. He was great lover of outdoor
life and kept in top-notch physical
trim by extensive walks. Nature had
endowed him with striking physique
deep chest, strong face and broad
shoulders-and he was able to keep
actively in the ecclesiastical harness
late in life on a par with his younger
church co-workers.
Brilliant Conversationalist.
Bishop Mcdowell was known for his
quick perception in a situation and for
his executive ability. He had the
faculty of avoiding controversy and
brought statesman-like qualities to
bear on ecclesiastical problems. Socially
he was considered one of the most
gracious of men. His bubbling humor
gave him youth that belied his years,
and as a converse tionalist his wit was
brilliant. He possessed clear insight
into the humorous side Of life and his
friends asserted that there was hardly
a speaker on the American platform
who could equal him in his power to
sway an audience.
The supreme preacher of the
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