The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-15
Annual Meeting of the New
ark Diocese Opened Today
In Christ Church,
Orange.
BISHOP STARKEY in THE CHAIR
Clerical and Lay Delegates
Present The Bishops
Address.

Especial to '~The Jersey City News."1
EAST ORANGE, May 10, 19Oo.-Righ
Rev. Thomas A. Starkey, D. D., LID.
this morning in Christ Church opened the
twenty-fifth annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Newark
In honor of this important event in the
church's history the ladies of the parish
decorated the chancel with white flowers
and palms. which formed striking con-
trast to the multi-colored rays falling on
the chancel floor from the stained glass
windows above. There was large at
tendance of clergy present when the Gus
tomary communion service was begun
with the Bishop as the celebrant and the
rector, Rev. w. Whiting Davis, as assist
ant Archdeacon Alexander Mann, of
Newark, and Rev. James M. Smith read
the epistle and gospel. A surpliced choir
sang special services.
In the clergy present were those from
Hudson county:-Rev. John Keller, Ar
lington, secretary of the convention; Rev.
E. L. Jenner, St. Johns. Bayonne; Rev.
H. w. Mcguire, Calvary Pamrapo; Revs.
F. NJ. Kirkus and f. E. Bissell, Trinity
Church, Bergen Point; Rev. w. J. Tflley,
Harrison; Rev. c. Ernest Magill and Rev.
l. G. Even, Holy Innocents; Archdeacon
William r. Jenvey, st. Paul's; Rev. /.
Clayton Mitchell, Trinity Church, Hobo
ken; Rev. c. J. Lambert, West Hoboken;
Rey. James Cameron, Ascension; Rev. DR..
George Stephen Bennitt, Grace; Rev. P.
c. Pyle, Greenville; Rev. Augustine Ell
mendorf, Church of the Holy Cross; Rev.
+. E. Mortimer and Rev. C. P. A. Bur-
nett. ST. Marks; Rev. E. S. Forbes, St.
Johns; Rev. DR.. D. F. Warren. St.
Marys: Rev. W. P. Brush, St. Paufs. all
OF Jersey City, and Rev. H. w. Pen Hod-
son of Grace Church. Town of Union.
Among the lay delegates present repre-
senting churches in Hudson County
were:-Jersey City-Judge Chas. W.
Parker, Lindsey Rowe, st. Paul's;
Charles J. Detwiiler, Samuel Ross, Grace.
Grenville; E. A. S. Lewis, Trinity, Hobo
ken; Col. e. A. Stevens, Holy Innocents,
Hoboken; Richard Walsh, Calvary, Bay
onne; Capt Walter F. Whittemore. st.
Paurs S. Hoboken; H. A. Thomas ]. H. Gill
more and E. L. Prior, Church of the Holy
Cross, Jersey City, and Chas. Elkin, st.
Marks, Jersey City.
The communion service over the bishop
mounted the pulpit TO make his annual
report, the prominent feature of which
was that today makes his quarter of a
centur as Bishop of the Diocese of New
ark. A slight incident arose during the
reading of the address when referring to
the death of Rev. Joseph Knock, formerly
rector of St. Matthews Church, Sussex
street, Jersey City, he paused and looking
at the assembled clergy said solemnly:-
Its an awful thing to have to say,
but there's no rector in that Jersey City
parish"
After the customary greeting the Bishop
said in part:-''Times change. Two years
ago our ears were filled with the angry
shout and tumult of war; now we scarcely
heed or listen to its echoes. We are
thinking of other things A twelfth month
since underlying the cry were the stress
snd strain of pinched or remunerative in
dustries, our people now are rosy with
the flush of sudden financial triumphs.
1~anes change and men change with them.
The Church of Christ seems indeed like
the Navis, the ship which in early days
they used to call Her. She sails on a sea
of ever changing conditions incident to
the life of humanity. We need not fret,
for it could not possibly be otherwise. An
unsene pilot controls the helm and guides
her to her destiny"
The Bishop touched on the recent
deaths of three Episcopal Bishops, Bishop
Henry A. Neley of Maine, Bishop Henry
Niles Pierce of Arkansas and Bishop N.
Gilbert coadjutor of Minnesota. Among
the clergy died during the year he referred
felingly to Rev. Joseph A. Knock, some-
time rector of St. Matthews Church,
Jersey City The death of solon
Humphreys of Bergen Point was also
mentioned. Turning to the Episcopal
work of the year past the Bishop SAID that
two new mission churches had been open
ed; st. Peters Chapel in Clifton and one
in Butler.
Cornerstones were laid of a new church
for Ridgewood, and one in Englewood, te
be known as the Church of st. Paul
parish house had been erected in Edge
water and one at At. Andrews Church
South Orange. Continuing the BishoI
said
"I may properly refer in this place e
the work which has been carried on fol
the last three or four years in Centrevllle
by the rector of the Church OF Berger
Point, Hitherto whatever there was dons
was carried on in rented rooms with IN
sufficient accommodations. 1t required
nearly 5000 to secure the ground ane
erect the chapel and guild house. All this
has been done by the rector and MS CO.
workers.
while on the general subject of hqui
dation Of church debts, let me refer to tns
5000 collected on Easter Day through tht
strenuous efforts of the rector of st
Stephens Church, Newark, toward tht
payment of a debt of $4,000, which in
cluded the original mortgage Of $1,000.
Speaking of the work at Christ Hos.
pital Jersey City, the Bishop said that il
was now completed according to the
original design. On June l3, 1889, he with
q large number of clergy and laity opened
and dedicated the new wing, which had
been completed at a cost of over $4,000
1t was a day, said the Bishop, of great
satisfaction to all the many friends of the
hospital and will not be soon forgotten
.tOur other charities are in good condi-
An Old and Well TriedRemeay.
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