The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-21
Reelected Secretary of the
Diocese of Newark at
the Protestant Bpis-
copal Convention.
GREETED WARMLY BY CLERGYHEN
Bishop Starkey's Feeling Al
lusions in His Annual
Address = Commit
tees Named.

Especial to "The Jersey City News."l
NEWARK, May 81 1s01-In old Trinity
Church, in this city, this morning, the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Newark
held its twenty-seventh annual conven-
ton The majority of the early arrivals
We're women, drawn there out of sheer
curiosity to see the Rev John Keller of
Arlington, who was shot by Thomas G.
Barker for an alleged assault on his wife.
Whatever may be the merits of the
shooting affray there was no doubt about
the loyal reception given to the rector
of Trinity Mission, Arlington His min
isterial brethren crowded around him,
shook his hand and assured him of their
confidence and sympathy.
The reverend gentleman arrived at the
church shortly after nine o'clock, ac-
companied by his sister and a lay dele
gate from his church. He looked we'll.
Dark glasses covered his eyes. The right
one is forever closed, but the left is
partially opened, and he sees fairly we'll
He was Just as usual, pleasant, affable
and obliging. To a News" representa-
tive he said:-
I am progressing rapidly and / feel
well. l am thankful that 1 can see my
friends. who have been so thoughtful and
so kind in my trouble
When he reached the church he was
escorted to the vestry and busted him
self with assisting Bishop Thomas E.
Starkey in robing for the opening COM
munion service. He gave directions to
his assistant secretary, the Rev. Apple
ton Grannis of Essex Fells about the
business of the convention, and in chat
ting about the work of the same said that
1t was relief to get into harness again.
A rash newspaper man broached the
coming trial in Jersey City, but he was
quickly squelched. Mr.. Keller wouldn't
talk about the ordeal ahead.
When the election of secretary was an
nounced Archdeacon Mann of Newark
moved that the Rev. John Keller be re-
elected, whereupon the treasurer of the
diocese, Henry Hayes, a millionaire of
Newark, moved that a rising vote be
taken. When the vote was called every
clergyman in the room jumped to his feet.
A member, after Mr.. Kellers election had
been announced, rushed into an ante
room where the wounded clergyman was
and congratulated him.
Bishop Starkey alluded to the trouble
of the Rev. Mr.. Keller in his opening
address, and his words, although care
fully and guardedly framed, caused a
rustic of excitement among the occupants
of the galleries. This is what he said-
1t is known to you all how the bishop
Of this diocese was deprived for months
\ of the valued help for which your
thoughtful consideration had made pro-
vision through many past years, and
which proved of such service to him. 1t
will be impossible to ever forget the ten
ders of assistance which came to me from
the clergy, one offer after another, III
those pain brrdened days. My own work
had to be done by myself mainly, and
was done as well as conditions permitted,
That which concerned the convention,
preparations for its meeting and what
remained to be done in preparing the Jour-
nal for printing, was undertaken and ex-
cellently we'll done by the rector of the
Nutley Church. Happily with the precis-
ion and carefulness which have from the
first been characteristic of our faithful
secretary, the records had kept pace, pari
passa, with the annual advance up to the
time when other labors were required
Then Mr.. Saimeneg took them up in such
a way that I cannot withhold this express
sion of my sense of personal and official
ODugat1On 10 MIN.
Continuing the Bishop in speaking OF
the diocesan work said:-"It is with the
old and often-spoken welcome that ]
greet you again this year, as we come to-
gether once more on our annual diocesan
synod. The occasion, always interesting.
mas for us all, in one respect, this year a
novel and suggestive significance, stand
ing as it does across the threshold of a
new century, and this not only for each
OF US individually, but also and equally
for that divine and perfect integer church
and kingdom which has lived through
many successive centuries and can never
die, and our new world modern diocese
of Newark. May she continue to live on
through the centuries to come not only
to win and train up souls for the worship
and service of her divine lord and king
Christ the God Incarnatei but may the
record which the centuries make concern
ing her in the divine archives be compre-
hended in the single word 'faithfulr'
Taking up as is his won't, the record OF
deaths among the bishops and in the local
clergy. Bishop Starkey continued
snn the course of the past year four OF
our bishops have died-Bishop jackson
Bishop Welmar, of Alabama, month
later; Bishop Hale, coadjutor of Spring
field, Oh December 25, in the same year,
and Bishop Barker, of Olympia. on Feb
ruary q. 1901 All these had done good
service in their Gay, working generally
in more or less unresponsive fields whers
the force and value of labor is to be
measured not so much by present results
numerically expressed as in the difficult
ties encountered, and, in part only, over
come. The church has labored for fifty
years in Liberia, at great cost and with
fewer communicates to show for heI
pains, than many of our smaller cities
but the Spiritual soil of Liberia is q
harder end more sterile one where it lies
on the northwestern border Of a vast
heather continent and If you and
should try to settle the question of the
comparative worth of religious labor in
different fields by an equation, fear tha'
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