Evening star., 1937-01-10
VISITING PASTORS
TO PREACH HERE
Sermons Will Be Feature OF
Lutheran Educational
Conference.


number Of States will occupy the pull
pits of local churches of the denomi-
nation at morning services today as
the opening feature OF the twenty
fourth annual convention OF the Ma
tional Lutheran Educational Confer
ence, which will continue through
Tuesday.
Lutheran educators and administra-
tors representing 40 colleges and semi
naries are expected to attend union
service tonight in the Lutheran Church
of the Reformation. East Capitol street
between Second and Third streets
northeast, and the general sessions Of
the conference, which will begin to-
morrow morning at the Mayfiower
Hotel.
Rev. Rees Edgar Tulloss. president
of Wittenberg College, Springfield,
Ohio, will be the speaker at the union
services at 7;3o pm. Rev. Oscar F.
Blackwelder, pastor, will of!iciate.
Visitors to Preach.
Visitors who will occupy local pull
pits at the morning services today are
Or. Conrad Bergendoff, president Of
the conference and president OF Au-
gustana College. Rock Island, Ill, at
the Church of the Incarnation, Four
teenth and Gallatin streets; DR.. c. M.
Granskou, president Of Augustana COL
lege, Sioux Falls, S. OAK, Faith Lu-
theran Church, North Irving street at
Pershing drive, Arlington, Va; Presi-
dent H. w. A. Hanson of Gettysburg
College, Gettysburg, Pa, Luther Place
Memorial Church, Thomas Circle;
President Charles M. Jacobs of Lu-
theran Theological Seminary, Phila-
delphia, Atonement Lutheran Church,
North Capitol street and Rhode Island
avenue; Prof. G. M. Bruce, Luther
Seminary, st. Paul, Mimi, Grace Lu-
theran Church. Sixteenth and Varnum
streets; President G. M. Smith OF Sus-
uuehanna University, Selingsgrove, Pa,
Georgetown Lutheran Church, Wis
consin avenue and Volta place; Presi-
dent E. S. Rudisill of Thiel College,
Greenville, Pa, Zion Lutheran Church,
New Hampshire avenue and Buchanan
street; President H. F. Martin of Mid
land College, Fremont, Nebr., st. Ste
pren's Lutheran Church, 1911 Brent
wood road northeast, and Prof. B. H
Pershing, HANNA Divinity School
Springfield, Ohio, Takoma Lutheran
Church, Seventh and Dahlia streets.
Session Opens Tomorrow.
The opening session will be held
at 10 am. tomorrow in the north
ro<> at the Mayfower Hotel, with
DR.. Bergendoff presiding. Devotions
will be led by Rev. Howard E. Snyder
pastor of the Atonement Lutheran
Church, and will be followed by the
presidents address by DR.. Bergen
doff.
The opening business session will
begin at 11:15 am. with the report of
the secretary-treasurer. DR.. H. j.
Arnold of Wittenberg College. Com
mittees will be appointed and new
business considered.
There will be fellowship luncheon
at 1890 pm. at the Mayflower, with
Rev. j. c. K. Preus, educational di-
rector and executive secretary Of thu
Board of Education, United Nor.
wegian Lutheran Church. presiding
There will be informal talks by rep
resentatives of the various Lutheran
church bodies present.
The second general session will be
called to order at 2:05 pm. tomorrow
with DR.. G. Morris Smith, president
of Susquehanna University, presiding
Discussion will be led by Dr. Pershing
The session will break up into Sec
tonal meetings. from 3:45 to $50
pm, with a number Of local Luth-
eran leaders participating, among
them, DR.. Mary E. Markley, secre-
tary to the Board of Education OF
the United Lutheran Church Of Amer
lea and vice president of the CON-
ference.
Dinner Tomorrow Night.
Baron Won Tippelskirch, Consul
General of the German Reich at Bos-
ton, will be the speaker at the an
: nual dinner, at $50 pm. tomorrow in
, Barker Hall of the Y w. c. A., Sew
enteenth and K streets. DR.. Bergen
doff will preside.
DR.. Frederick ]. Kelley chief Of
the Division of Higher Education,
United States ONCE of Education.
will be speaker at the third gen.
eral session Tuesday morning. T. w.
Dawsey of the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation will address the con-
ference at luncheon meeting in the
Y. w. c. A. Tuesday. After q visit
to the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton, further sectional meetings will
be held Tuesday afternoon. The con-
ference will close with a business ses-
sion and general session Tuesday eve
ming.