The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-15
MET MEATH ROSES.
Twentieth Convention of
the P. E. Church Con-
vened in Orange
Today.
THE OPENING SERVICES.
Bishop Starkey's Annual Address
Showing the Progress Of the
Church in the Diocese.

At a yery early hour this morning a num-
Der of young ladies were very busy in deco
rating the interior of Grace P. E. Church,
Orange, with flowers, for this morning the
twentieth annual convention OF the PROTESTANT
Episcopal Diocese of Newark would begln-
These very active ladies of the church guild
poked roses and lilies into every hole and
corner of the pretty church. The pillars
were twined with smilax and ivy The base
of the windows contained punches OF carna-
items and ~geraniums, and the altar itself
looked like a stand in a flower show. Their
work was barely finished when a professional
march, played by the organist, announced
the approach of the Bishop and clergy.
First came the choir boys, dear little
souls. clothed in black cassocks and white
surplices, each with his hair carefully
brushed and plastered down on his forehead.
Next came the clergy in white surplces and
dark red stoles, and lastly the Rlgnt Key
Thomas A. Starkey, vested IN full canonl-
Gals, black silk cassock, balloon-lKe lawn
sleeves. and embroidered stole.
He 'officiated at the choral communion
service and that lasted for fully an
hour. At its close a STAN OF men
came into the church. whlsked out
seats and dragged in tables, boxes and pun
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Bishop in black cassock the clergy IN
ordinary. every day attire entered, ana Inc
convention opened.
The opening ceremony was extremely SIN,
pJe. The Bishop stood at the lectern. ana
unrolling a formidable roll OF paper start
ed in to read his annual address, when Is
substantially as follows
BISHOP sTARKEY's ADDRESS
DEAR AND LAITY@Once more
ask Won to accept my cordial greeting on
this fifteenth occasion of our annual meet
ing in Diocesan Council and TO unite with me
in the heartfelt prayer that each coming
wear which God vouchsafes to us may wit
ness in our hearts and lives the presence ana
power of a more entire devotion to HlmseI
n to the sacred and Responsible WORK "ucn
He has given us to do.
There has been nothing of o specially
marked character to record in the history OF
the diocese during the year JUS closed only
the steady progress in a quiet way, Whicn Is
nerhaps not the worst sign of a strength
ening life In the world, on the other hand,
at least in one American portion OF IL, there
has been widespread financial qlsasUer, l
have no need to remind tho older men among
vo,, how these seasons have REQUIRED with
an almost mathematical regularity IN the
past industrial history OF the country,
although this is not the occasion Ior o dls.
cussion of the causes to which such marked
phenomena are due. / aIn, nevertheless, iar
from admitting that the Church mas no III
terest in connection with the rapldly IN
creasing alienation Of capital and labor, or
the alarming strain growing more
and more intense with each passing
year between employers I'M employed,
The schurch's heart, wnaJeyer mlsiniormea
mfn NAV saw, has always beaten stroke py
stoke with the agitators of humanity, ana
she can, and does, and will ever continue %