Evening star., 1948-03-25

1oooV oV DAoSl w S4AQ4SiiCo Will
mark the hours of the Crucifixion
with three-hour services from noon
to 3 pm tomorrow.
Many others announced services
for tomorrow night and at other
hours during the day.
Interest and cooperation to pro-
vide Good Friday three-hour serv-
ices has been more intense this year
than ever before, according to the
Rev. Joseph E. Gedra, pastor of the
Immaculate Conception Church,
Eighth and N streets NV, and ex-
ecutive secretary of the Committee
for Three Hours Observance of Good
Friday.
About IS churches provided the
services last year, as compared with
about 80 this week, he said. More
business establishments than ever
have promised to give employees an
opportunity to attend the services,
he declared.
Federal Workers to Attend.
Most Government employees will
be allowed to attend the services.
Special obServanceS are scheduled
at military establishments, and en-
ployes will be permitted to rear
range working schedules or take
leave. Navy ships and shore sta
tions will have Good Friday services
wherever conditions permit.
Among the services here seven
pastors will present meditations
upon the last words of Jesus from
the cross in traditional three-hour
services beginning at noon at the
Luther Place Memorial Chuch,
Fourteenth and N streets NV.
Among those appearing at serv-
ices here will be DR.. Henry Sloan
Coffin of New York, who will ad-
dress a Georgetown union observ-
ance at st. Johns Episcopal Church,
3240 o street NV.
DR.. Coffin. an internationally
known preacher and writer, was
president of the Union Theological
Seminary in New York before his
retirement. He has been moderator
of the Presbyterian church.
Join in Union Services.
Six churches will join in union
Good Friday services at the Me-
mortal Evangelical United Brethren
Church, North Capitol and r streets,
where the Rev. D. Hobard Evans
Hyattsville Presbyterian pastor, will
speak. They include the Bethany
Baptist, Atonement Lutheran, Lin
coin Road Methodist, Rhode Island
Avenue Methodist and lexington
Presbyterian Churches.
Another joint service will be held
at the Francis Asbury Methodist
Church, 3146 Sixteenth street NV,
by the Brightwood Park. Calvary,
Emory, Hamline, Lewis Memorial,
Petworth and st. Paul's Methodist
Churches.
At the Eldbrooke Methodist
Church, River road at Wisconsin
avenue NV, the Bethesda, Cabin
John, Chevy Chase and Dumbarton
Methodist Churches will join in
services.
Pastors of the Plymouth Congre-
gational Church and the Brent
wood A. M. E. Zion Church will
take part in a union service at the
John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church,
1915 Fourteenth street NV.
Disciples of Christ churches of
the area will join in services at the
National City Christian Church,
Thomas Circle at Fourteenth street
NV.
DIR. Mollegen at Cathedral.
DR.. A. T. Mollegen. professor of
Christian ethics at Virginia Theo-
logical Seminary, will lead services
at Washington Cathedral. The Ca
thedral also will hold ante-com-
munion services at 7:30 am. and
evening prayer at 4 pm. in the
Chapel of st. Joseph of Arimathea.
In addition to three-hour services,
Grace Lutheran Church, Sixteenth
and Varnum streets NV, will pre-
sent its senior choir, led by Will
liam Moran, at 8 pm, singing
Maunder's "Olivet to Calvary" A
sermon by the Rev. Reginald Holle
and holy communion will follow.
At Luther Place Memorial Church,