The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-21
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union OFFICERS.
Diocesan Committee On
Nominations Has It's
Hands Full Seeur-
ing Candidates.
CONES INTERESTING SPEECH
Jersey City Well Represented
at the National Conven-
ton In Newark.
CONES INTERESTING SPEECH

Especial to ssThe Jersey City News.r1
NEWARK Sent. ri, 1S99.EThe Commit
tee ON Organization Of the Diocesan
Union had its hands full yesterday after
noon preparing a ticket of candidates for
office. President McGuirl let it be under
| stood that he would not be a candidate
| for reelection under any circumstances
| Friends of Rev. B. M. Began. First Vice
| President, put his name forward for the
| presiding office. Efforts were also made
by friends of Rev. DIR. Frank G.. Wall, OF
New York, to secure the office for the
latter. There were more than one candl-
date for each Of the other Offices
b. J.. Owens, John F. O'Hara and Ed
ward ]. O,Brien, of the local Committee
of Arrangements, were in constant at
tendance looking after the wants OF the
delegates.
At the suggestion of Father Dunn It
was decided to have a committee to con-
| slider the question of having a specihc
| emblem in the shape Of a flag or a button
| for the members of the union Announce
ment was made by Mr.. Bourke that the
Archdiocese of New York would not
present a paper on THE Church in Our
| New Territory as programmed
The standing committees named by the
| convention, after selections for the same
| had been made by aucuses of the var
| ious diocesan delegations. were as fol-
| lows
constitutional. L. McInerny, Brook
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Des..s M work. Jerome A..
TN - rs,rnar Bos-
~ 1,rasns Ricbmoud.
eorl, 1she D. Josanh {. Kelly.
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-. " I Elatlev Boston: Robert
.S uys.h;nr+on ana Michael ]. Cox.
- = 7 Rrown of Newark. rec
-~anaaa +h.t tha delegates should con-
staar tha ouestion Of having more Catho-
y. baors nlace an the shelves of public
nhrar,as IN the various cities. The speak
az said that in Newark there were but
t;varv few Catholic books In the
library.
To secure more such books Father
BROWN said IT would be a good plan to go
70 the libraries and call for Catholic
| hooks. If they were not to be had he
advised that slips be filed out asking for
them. Then, he added, if they should
not be secured you could learn the reason
why.
Father Chadwick, chaplain of the III
| fated Maine entered the hall at s:l0
o'clock. and III delegates arose and ap-
| plauded while the priest Wake from the
door to the platform.
William Hopkins, Of Boston, was nvit-
ed to read a paper on "Charity-a fleid
| for Young Men, He said in part
Faith is a gracious gift mysterlously
bestowed. 1t has come to me ana 10
other unworthy men most freely, wnile
God has allowed grand souls like Paul
of Tarsus and DR.. Newman to be long
perplexed by its extraordinary enlgmas
What shall I do to be saved? is easily
answered for us-possessing the 1aitn,
pursue it with good works. And OF Hope
1t may be said that she is the handmade
of Faith. for an energetic, jealous Faith
is forever fruitful of a wide-horizoned
Hope.
Charity has been during all Christen-
dom. the child of the church. Early as
326. when a plague and pestilence desolat-
ed Alexandria and Carthage, n the
Pagans fed terror-stricken from the con-
tagion. Christian men and women won the
admiration Of the world by their charity
for the suffering and their consideration
for the abandoned dead.
aBut to be PRACTICAL; to descend from
tho fine phrases of heroism to the kindly
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