The Rev. Robert Gifford Metters became rector.  For more about the Metters years please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.

• 17 September.  The Rev. Henrietta Rue Goodwin died.  She had retired from the faculty of the National Cathedral School to live with her sister Helen Goodwin French, wife of Hollis French, who was warden here from 1914-1940. After her burial from the Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem PA, which the Goodwins had helped to found, a memorial was held at Emmanuel. For a discussion of her ministry here, see also: 1897.