Evening star., 1945-02-12
New Epiphany Chapel
Dedicated in Memory
OF Rev. I. 7. Phillips
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. re
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 he 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.
Yarnell Reads Lesson.
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. Paul's
Church. Baltimore-all three asso-
ciated with DR.. Phillips at Epiphany.
Other assisting presbyters were:
The Rev Richard H. Wilmer, the
Rev. Herbert S. Costain and the
Rev. Alvin L. Willis. likewise mem
bers of DR.. Phillips personal circle
In his sermon DR.. Sheerin ex-
planned three memorial chapel VIM
dows of translucent stained glass,
created by the Willett Studios of
Philadelphia, representing three
major phases of DR.. Phillips career.
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.
Shands, 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
of First Pres
byterian Church: Rabbi Norman
of Washington Hebrew
Congregation; Col. Spencer Cosby,
former District Commissioner; Chap
lain H. A. Griffith, Thomas E.
Robertson and many members of
DR.. Phillips parish and cathedral
families
Clergy Share i'm Service.
Among the diocesan clergy sharing
in the service were: The Rev. DR..
Franklin j. Bohanan, 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.
1t was announced that one of the
pews in the new chapel is an old
bench which regularly was used by
Jefferson Davis, president of the
Confederate States. when he was a
cabinet officer and resident of Wash
pct0p before tho civil Wor