The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
Annual Meeting of the New.
ark Diocese on
May II.
PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES.
Diocesan Missions-Phe Elections
Of Wardens and Vestrymea
to Be Discussed.
PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES.

The Annual Convention of the EpiscO
pal Diocese of Newark will meet In ST.
Marks Church. West Orange, on Tues
day, May II, at ten o'clock a. m. The
convention will be opened by celebra-
tion of the Holy Communion, and during
this service Bishop Starkey will deliver
in place of sermon, all that part Of hid
annual address that does not relate to the
subject of missions.
At the conclusion of the Communion
service Bishop Starkey will take the
chair and call the convention to order for
business. One Of the first things to be
done will be to elect secretary, and the
Rev. DIR. Edward B. Boggs, of this city.
who has been secretary for many years.
will in all probability be elected. After
this various committees will be appointed
by the Bt3hop and other routine business
will be transacted. About noon the con-
vention will take recess for lunch. In
the Afternoon the session of the conven.
tion will be resumed and considerable
business will be transacted.
DIOCESAN MISSION.
The convention will also sit on Wednbs.
day. In the morning of this day Bishop
Starkey will deliver an address, review
ing the missionary work of the diodesa
during the past year. After this the COM
vention will discuss the subject OF dio-
cesar missions, and will take action on/a
canon, changing the missionary system
of the diocese by doing away with the
archdeaconaries and placing the entire
missionary work In the care OF board OK
missions.
Another canon THAT will probably cause
much discussionis bne on the subject or
parish elections for wardens, vestryinen
md dalou afaS n hha DiOcaSQn C0uVeu-
tion. IL provides that the rector shall pre-
side and that thoseleligible to vote shall
be baptized male peksons Of full age, ac-
customed to attending divine worship IN
the parish church, AND VINO profess TO ad-
here to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
and to no other religious body, and who
belong to one of severfl classes, and have
been SO connected with, the parish for az
least six calendar mopths Immediately
preceding the meeting Pr election.
THE CLAsSIH& cation.
The classes are defin4 ID in the Canon as
Glass l. All communicative nnot under repul-
sion, who have been to the Holy communion q on
nstar in reRaa that Pssh a
parish, or on their owl written u AGest; u,
Class . All who hold one or fhore sitting3 y
thereon the to the beginning Of the quarter in whllG
| the meeting or election is held; or,
Glass 3. In churches wnere the seats are en-
tirely free. OF parity feuteu anu parbly IFce al
who hold and have paid for a sitting as pro-
vded for in class 2, and all who on their own
written request, have been received as worship
pers in that parish by the minister, or, il there
be no minister, by the senior warden or the secs
retary of the vestry. and have regularly con-
tributed since their reception, to the support Of
| the church in the way appointed in that parish.
On the second daE, Of the conventicn.
clerical and laszt deputies IN the General
Convention, wi2lch meets in -Balrira.agq, IA
October, will b. elected. The Standing
Committee Of the Diocese will also be
| elected.