The Jersey City news., 1892-05-16
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
The Great Council in St.
Marks Church, West
Orange, Tomorrow.
SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
Sketches Of Bishop Starkey and
Secretary Boggs-0rder
of Procedure.
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copal Diocese of Newark will meet In
ST. Marks Church, West Orange, to-
morrow morning at ten o'clock. 1t will
be opened with celebration of the Holy
Communion by Bishop Starkey. assisted
by several clergy of the diocese. At the
conclusion of this service Bishop Starkey
will deliver so much of his annual address
as does not relate to the missions of the
diocese.
After the service is over the Bishop
will take the chair and call the conven-
tion to order for business. The name Of
the clergy of the diocese will then be
called in the order of seniority, be-
ginning with the Bishop. After this
the list of delegates from the
parishes will be called. After this
the Bishop will appoint commit
and the convention will choose q COM
mittee on the rights of clerical members.
Following this u secretary will be elected,
and in all probability the Rev. DR.. Ed
ward B. Boggs, of this city, will be re-
elected, and he will appoint the Rev.
John P. Appleton, of Nutley, in Franklin
township, as his assistant. The Bishop
will then appoint the following commit
tees: - New parishes, finance. rules Of
order, audit OF treasurer's accounts, Sec
retaries, unfinished business. The COM
mittee on constitution and canons, one
of the most important of the convention,
will be elected. Reports of officers and
committees will be presented. and the
convention will take a recess for dinner.
PARISH VOTERS.
One of the important matters to be dis
cussed tomorrow Is the proposed amend
ment to the canon in regard to the quail
fications of voters at parish districts. 1t
provides that the rector shall preside, and
that those eligible to vote shall be bap-
toned to attending divine worship in the
parish church, aud who profess to adhere
to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and
to no other religious body, and who be-
long to one of the following classes, and
have been so connected with the parish
for at least six calendar months imme-
diately preceding the meeting of cleo
tion:-
Glass l. All communicates, not under repul-
sion, who have been to the Holy Communion on
confirmation in that parish, or received by the
minister on q regular certificate from another
parish, or on their own written request. or,
Glass z. All who hold one or more sittings in
the parish church, and have paid the rent due
thereon to the beginning of the quarter In which
the meeting or election IS held; or,
Glass 8. In churches where the seats are
tirely free. partly rented and partly free, all
who hold and have paid for sitting as provided
request have been received as worshippers in
that parish by the minister, or if there be no
minister, by the senior warden or the secretary
of the vestry, and have regularly contributed,
since their reception, the support of the church
in the way appointed in that parish.
WEDNESDAYS PROGRAMME.
At nine o'clock on Wednesday morn
ing the office of morning prayer will be
read, after which Bishop Starkey will de-
liver that part Of his address relating to
~sa,E Eof,, ooi1 ha
cons will present their annual reports.
After this the committee will take up the
subject of missions and will discuss q
proposed canon doing away with the two
archdeaconries and placing the missions
of the diocese in the hands of board of
missions. On this day the standing COM
mittee of the diocese. the most important
of all, as in the event of the death or alb
seuce of the Bishop they have charge of
the diocese, will be elected. Four clerical
and four lay deputies to the General Con-
vention of the Church. which meets in
Baltimore in October, will also be elected.
Considerable other business of Importance
to the diocese will be transacted.
The number of parishes In union with
the convention is sixty-eight. Each will
be- entitled to three y delegates. In adj
dition to this there are connected with the
diocese about 100 clergy. including the
Bishop, The clergy will be present and
vote not as delegates from their parishes
but by virtue of their position as clergy
must be the rector of church or actively
engaged in some work.
BISHOP STARKEY.
Bishop Thomas Alfred Starkey, who is
ex-officio the president of the convention.
is a tall, slender man, with regular. clear
officer He is the second Bishop of this dio-
cese, the diocese having been set off from
the Diocese of New Jersey in 1874, when
it was known as Northern New Jersey.
The Right Rev. William Henry Oden-
heimer. who was then Bishop of New
Jersey. elected to go with the new
diocese and became its first Bishop.
heimer, which occurred in the fall
of 1879, DR.. Starkey. who was then
rector of St. Pauls Church, Paterson,
was chosen to succeed him. He was con-
Bishop on January s. 1850. in
Grace Church in this city, and soon after
took up his residence on Washington
street, opposite Washington Park. Later
on the house in Arlington avenue. East
Orange, where he now resides, was pur-
chase by the diocese and he removed
there. He has at his own expense added
to and beautified the house.
In 1886 the name of the diocese was
changed from Northern New Jersey to
Newark, much to the Bishops
pleasure, us he had always been
an advocate of the old custom of
calling diocese after the principal city
IN it. Previous to his elevation to the
Bishopric. DIR. Srarkey had been rector of
a church in Albany, also of the Church
of the Epiphany In Washington,
and at the time of his election he was rec
tor of St. Paul's, Paterson. and was also
dean of the Missionary Convocatlon of
Jersey City. He has always taken very
warm interest in the missions of the
diocese and has done much by his per-
8 onal efforts to build them up. He has
also manifested lively interest in the
hos pitfalls and other institutions of the
diocese, and has spared no pains to ex-
tend their influence ana strengthen them.
He has also given very hearty support
to the work of the s1sterhoods III the
church, to the Brotherhood of st. Andrew
aud the Girls Friendly Society. The
diary of his Episcopal journal each year
shows that almost every day in the year.
except in the hottest summer months, he
is occupied in some work of the church.
In addition to his labors in his own
diocese he has had several important
works committed 10 his care in the Cen
sral Church, one of these being to provide
for the spiritual care of immigrants on
their arrival in this country from Eng
and.
SECRETARY BoGGs.
The Rev. DIR. Edward b. Boggs. the
Secretary of the convention, has held that
position ever since 1877. lie is one OF the
oldest clergymen in the diocese in point
If aoa and services but In the matter of