Evening star., 1939-05-04
800 Attend Annual
Meeting Of Cathedral
Association
Dean Powell Reviews
Work Of College
Of Preachers
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.


The significance of Washington
Cathedral in terms of service to
God and man was the theme of the
annual meeting of the National Ca
thedral Association, held in the
transept of the great diocesan
church on Mount st. Alban yester-
day afternoon.
More than 300 members and
friends of the voluntary builders
organization, founded in 1898, were
assembled when the Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of WASH
ington, introduced the first speaker,
the Very Rev. Noble G. Powell, who,
as warden, reported on the work Of
the College of Preachers during the
past decade.
Edwin N. Lewis Speaks.
Edwin N. Lewis, editor of the Ca
thedral Age and executive secretary
of the Cathedral Association,
painted "a pageant of the ministry
of the Cathedral" in words, telling of
the different religious, educational
and social objectives of the Cathe-
dral as they are fulfilled in practice
month after month.
Mrs Williams Adams Brown, re-
tiring president of the Women S
National Committee, referred to the
Cathedral as "a great religious
treasure, a noble shrine for the cul-
tivation of the presence of God"
Within the Cathedrars walls, she
held, "the world invisible is seen
and the world intangible is felt. We
find here. free for the sharing, the
mystical energy of the risen Christ" !"
Total membership in the Ca
thedral Association, Mrs Brown
explained, now exceeds 5000. There
are active committees at work, she
reported, in California, Connecticut,
Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wiscon-
sin.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph R. Sizoo
minister of the Collegiate Church
of st. Nicholas in New York, former
minister of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, was the final
speaker of the meeting.
In the procession at the begin
ming and at the close of the meet
ing marched members of the asso-
citation with the flags of the States
from which they came, the banner
of the District of Columbia at the
end of the line.
Those Present at Meeting.
Those present included: Dean
Carl w. Ackerman of the School
of Journalism, Columbia University,
and Mrs. Alderman; Mrs. Ernest
r. Adee, Mrs. Robert L. Bacon, Mr..
and Mrs. Monroe G. Barnard, Mrs.
Charles NJ Chaplin, Mrs. Thomas
Ewing, Mrs. Russell c. Langdon,
Mrs. Townsend Phillips, Mrs. John
T. Pratt and James Sheldon, New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler L.
Black and Mrs. William S. Griffin,
Syracuse; Mrs. Allan Forbes, Mrs.
John Lowell, Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth
and Mrs. Charles L. Slattery, Bos-
ton; Mrs. w. N. Bullard, Lenox,
Mass; Mrs. G. Maurice Congdon,
Providence; Mrs. Robert p Bur-
roughs, Manchester, N. H.; Mr.. and
Mrs. P. H. Gadsdue, Overlook, Pa;
Mrs. John T. Howell, Wilkes Barre;
Miss Annie B. Jennings, Fairfield,
Conn; Mrs. Clarence B. Mitchell,
Far Hills, N. j.; Mrs. William H.
Schofeld, Peterborough, N. H.; Miss
Ada Louise Taylor, Hartford; Mrs.
John WoodWell, Pittsburgh; Mrs.
Walter Charles White, Gates Mills,
Ohio; Miss Violet Berry, Maine;
Mrs. George Chase Christian, Min
neapolis; Mrs. Charles D. Dickey,
Philadelphia; Mrs. Irenee du Pont,
Mrs. Frances Janvier and Miss
Margaret Janvier, Delaware; Mrs.
Charles M. Lea, Devon, Pa; Mrs.
Arthur McGraw, Crosse Pointe,
Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. George Whar-
ton Pepper, Mrs. Henry R. Rea,
Mrs. William Thaw, jr., and Mrs.
Wharton Sinkler, Pennsylvania;
Mrs. Peter Arlington, Warrenton,
N, c.; Mrs. S. Westray Battle. Ashe-
vile; Mrs. M. S. Barnwell, Savan-
nah; Mrs. Melville Bearns, Mrs.
Katherine Fox Bowman, Mrs. Clar-
ence Carter, Mrs. George Cutting,
Mrs. Binney Hamilton, Mrs. w. N.
Hodgkin, Mrs. John B. Keith, Mrs.
George Cole Scott and Mrs. c. A.
Swami Sinclair, Virginia; Mrs.