Evening star., 1941-10-22
Presiding Bishop
To Be Installed
This Afternoon
Henry St, George Tucker
To Be Welcomed at
Washington Cathedral

tucker, preSlQlng DlSnOp, is installed
in the chair provided for him there
The ceremonies. starting at .
pm, are the principal feature o
the seventeenth Synod of the Thirc
Province of the Episcopal demon.
ination. Clerical and lay delegate!
from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary.
land, Virginia and West Virgins
are in attendance and will partici.
pate in the rites.
Preliminary meetings of the synod
were held yesterday, and the entire
assembly attended a special service
in the Great Choir last night. The
Right Rev. Robert E. L. Strider
Bishop of West Virginia, preaching
to a congregation which crowded
the tranSept, set the keynote of the
convention, declaring: 1T is our
Christian belief that God lives and
that His Providence ruleth and
relgneth over all.
Sees Judgment Impending.
The universal church, Bishop
Strider argued in his sermon, has
faith that the Creator is interested
in His handiWork He is perfectly
and infinitely righteous, and evil is
out of place in the world He has
made, God, therefore, judges men
and groups and nations when they
fiout His will. We see His anger in
the punishment of the apostate peo-
pie of Israel, in the fall of Rome, in
wars and revolutions, including the
conflicts now raging. But eventually
the right must prevail. Our hope
must be in the remnant which God
will raise up out of the Wreckage-a
remnant who will look to Him and
love Him and follow Him to the
realization of His purpose"
Under the leadership of Paul
Galloway, the Cathedral choir and
the choirs of the Church of st.
Stephen and the Incarnation, the
Chapel of the Holy Comforter and
st. Johns Church. Georgetown,
sang the musical portions of last
evenings service
The order for the ceremonies this
afternoon includes: Professional,
Hymn 464 The Church's One
Foundation"; exhortation by the
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington; Psalm Is;
the Lesson. Isaiah vi:1-8; anthem,
Psalm 122. by Leo SoWerby: preSen-
tation of the Presiding Bishop, read
ing of his testimonials, welcome by
Bishop Freeman; Psalm 12l; Apos-
ties Greed and prayers; anthom,
Old Sarum Primer, God Be in MY
Head, and in My Understanding"
the Presiding Bishop proceeds to
the altar; Tie Deum Laudamus,"
by R. Vaughan Williams; benedic-
ton; occasional, Hymn 512. For
Thee, o Dear, Dear Country"
Bishop Discusses Rites.
IN statement released this morn
ing, Bishop Freeman discussed the
significance of today's rites in part
as follows:
For the first time since the status
and work of the Presiding Bishop
was defined by general convention
the office has lacked a proper and
dlgnlfied setting for the exercise of
its spiritual functions The admins
tratiVe Offices in New York have no
adequate place for that aspect of
the Presiding Bishops work. Apart
from this. it seems eminently proper
that there should be at the disposal
Of the Presiding Bishop a cathedral
church in a great metropolitan
center from whose pulpit from time
to time he could make pronounce
ments of signal Importance, not only
TO the church of which he is the |
chief officer, but to the Nation at |
.arge.
Washington, by reason of its
distinction as the Federal center, |
affords larger opportunity for
such purposes than any other city |
n the country. Here in the Capital
great policies are made that effect |
he material well-being of all our
people. While with wisdom we have
the functions of church
and state, it is reasonable to believe
hat the church has a well-defined |
for the large moral
and spiritual concerns of the Nation.
America has been declared a Chris
ion Nation and such 1t must con-
-inue to be if it is to serve The
nigh ends for which it was divinely |
'reated. Now, as at no other time
n our history, it is so indispensable
md necessary that Christian ideals
and Christian principles should be
,ealously and courageously main
aimed.
washington Cathedral has
lnique distinction by reason of its
geographical and strategic position.
it must serve the high
purposes for which it was built. 1t
las long been my conviction, and
or 1t I have labored through the
ears of my episcopate that this
Cathedral with its splendid insti-
utions should ultimately become
he unifying center OF our Church,
md the step we now take is in the
direction of such a purpose 1t is
he first step, but 1t contemplates
arger and broader conception of the
work. and function of the church's
hief officer, and in my judgment it
means a StateSmanlike move that
will give to this church a new and
more definite national consciousness.
That there is pressing need for the
hurch to deepen its sense of soli-
larity and unity, especially at this
ritical time, and that there is need
4 its equipping itself to meet the
hanges that are impending is clear
Y evident.
an Bishop Tucker we have fine
ymbol of this broader spirit of
nifty of life and purpose. His irenic
pirit has done much to bring to-
ether the diverse elements of our
hurch. With Washington Ca
hedral as his official seat, which
he bishop, dean and chapter gladly
ccord him, there must come to the
,hole church throughout the Ma
ion a new recognition of the tie
hat binds in a great fellowship all
IS dioceses, parishes and missions.
( this ancient church is to make its
arge contribution to the cause of
christian unity. it must exhibit
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