Evening star., 1945-02-12
New Epiphany Chapel
Dedicated in Memory
OF Rev. I. 7. Phillips
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

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BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
A congregation which filled the
Church of the Epiphany. G street
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
NV, last night participated in the
dedication of a transept chapel in
memory of the late Very Rev. Ze
Barney Thorne Phillips, rector there
for 18 years, chaplain of the Senate
dean of Washington Cathedral and
president of the House of Deputies
of the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal denomination
in America.
Men and women who were his
seniors in terms of years, clergy
whom ne trained for sacred orders,
boys and girls in Army and Navy
uniforms whom he educated in the
Scriptures, personal friends and a
throng of people to whom he had
carried words of comfort in times
of stress and sorrow attended the
commemorative rites conducted by
DR.. Phillips successor, the Rev.
DR.. Charles w. Sheerin.
The dedicatory program began
with a long procession of choristers
and clergy singing How Firm a
Foundation Evening prayers were
read by the Rev. Hunter M. Lewis,
the lesson by The Rev. DR.. Francis
Yarnell. and the prayer setting
apart the chapel by the Rev DR..
Harry Lee Doll of Old st. Paufs
Church, Baltimore-all three asso-
ciated with DR.. Phillips at Epiphany.
Other Assisting Presbyters.
Other assisting presbyters were:
The Rev Richard H. Wilmer, the
Rev. Herbert S.. Costain and the
Rev. Alvin l.. Willis, likewise men,
bers of DR.. Phillips personal circle.
The choir, under the leadership
of Adolf Torovsky, sang Stanford's
'Magnificat," Barnaby's For All
Thy Saints" Croft's 20 God, Our
Help in Ages Past" Mobiles For
Thee, o Dear, Dear Country" and
Souls of .he Righteous" Williams
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
and an orison hymn, 20 Lord, Sup
port Us All the Day Long" by the
choirmaster himself.
At the apex of the service, DR..
Sheerin appeared at the door of
the new chapel, saying: 1--WE are
not worthy, o Lord, to stand in thy
presence, not enter thy house. :" =
But since. o Lord, thou art merci-
full and full of compassion, grant
that thine eyes may be upon us as
We enter this place that is to be
dedicated as holy unto thee and
that all our thoughts and words
may be hallowed by thy presence" ="
The sentences of dedication then
were pronounced, the congregation
kneeling
In the subsequent sermon, Dr.
Sheerin explained three memorial
chapel windows of translucent
stained glass, created by the Will
lett Studios of Philadelphia, rep
resenting three major phases of Dr.
Phillips career. One, showing Saul
sitting at the feet of Gamaliel, he
said, witnessed to his interest in
scholarship; another, depicting
Peter preaching on the Day of
testified to his labors as
a preacher and as an apostle of
Christian courtesty; the last, por-
traying David the singer of the
Psalms, referred to his love of mu-
sic and poetry and his use of both
in his ministry.
Widow Present at Rites.
Seated in the chapel during the
rites of commemoration were DR..
Phillips widow, his daughter Sally
Hews and her husband, Col. Robert
w. McClenahan, his daughter Faith,
her husband, Col. Guido r. Perera,
and their sons, Phillips and
Laurence. Also, Mrs. Angus Dun,
wife of the fourth Bishop of Wash
ington; Mrs. Philip Mercer Rhine
lander, widow of the late Bishop of
Pennsylvania and warden OF the
College of Preachers at Mount st.
Alban; Mrs. William Charming
Johnson, Mrs. B. H. Buckingham,
Mrs. William H. Wilmer, Mrs. A. r.
DR.. r. Arthur Hooe. Charles
F. Wilson, Comdr. and Mrs. j. Chew,
Miss Carolyn Barkelow, Miss Nina
Schmidt, Mrs. Phoebe Barnes, Miss
Anna C. Riley, Mrs. A. Barnes Hooe
and Mrs. Sheerin.
Others present in the general con-
gregation included: the Rev. Dr.
James Shera Montgomery. chaplain
Of the House of Representatives; the
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Albert Joseph
Mccartney of Covenant First Pres
byterian Church: Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld of Washington Hebrew
Congregation; Col Spencer Cosby,
former District Commissioner: Chap
lain II. A. Griffth, Thomas E.
Robertson and many members of
DR.. Phillips parish and cathedral
families"
Among the diocesan clergy sharing
IN the service were :: The Rev. Dr.
Franklin j. BohanaIl, the Rev. Dr.
Edwin Slater Dunlap, the Rev.
Armand A. Eyler, the Rev. Clyde
Brown, the Rev. Edward Douse, the
Rev. A. A. Birch. the Rev. Charles
w. Wood and Canon w. Curtis
Draper.