The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-20
EPISCOP Allan
CONVENTION
Diocese Of Newark Begins
It's Twenty eighth An
nual Meeting.
BISHOP sTARKGY's ADDRESS
Sorrowfully He Foreshadows
the Abandonment Of Old
ST. Matthew'S.
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this city, the twenty-eightlh annual eon7
vcntion of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of Newark. It began with the
celebration of the Holy Communion, and
the Bishop was assisted in this service
by Rev Alexander Mann. rector Of the
i church and Archdeacon of Newark The
service was fully choral, the music by
tao surplieed choir being unusually
elaborate.
Clerical and lay delegates were late IN
reaching the church ana the Bishop read
h1o annual address to only half of the
three hundred or more members who are
| expected to be present While he was
| 50 engaged tine Standing Committee were
| in session wrestling with the financial
problems to be solved before the conven-
! tion adjourns tomorrow The committee
consisted of Rev. W. W. Holley, D. D., of
HackenSack; 4Archdeacon w. R. Jenvey,
of Hoboken; Rev. n. Barrows p. D., Of
Short Hills; Rev. Frank B. Reagor. West
Henry Hayes, Newark; D. Smith Wood
/ Newark, and Alfred Mills, Morristown
When the service was at an end the
Bishop retired. removed his vestmentsS
and few minutes later appeared in a
/
| by his chaplain and secretary of the dio-
cese. Rev. John Keller of Arlington, whose
/ presence aroused much interest among
the ladies sitting i'm the rear OF the church
because of the famous Barker Keller
shooting case whicn caused such a sens
satfon last year. That the dsSfgursd rec-
tor has the sympathy and confidence Of
| his brother elergylnen was shown by the
greeting they gave him as he CROPPED his
way up the aisle to the chancel, where his
pace was beside the Bishop
Bishop starkey in his address among
other things said
.of the clergy connected with this do
cese three have died since our last ses4
sion.
"The Rev. James Cameron, who passed
away on the twenty-sixth day of last
December was one of our older clergy, his
name standing fourth on the list at the
time of his death. He was a man of sim 4
pie and earnest life and his memory must
always hold a warm place in the mind
ana heart of his bishop and old .lnlc
| friend
Although it is foreign to my usual
custom to make any but the briefest sref-
| erence to purely secular occurrences, I
| fully recognize the fact that all reserve
of the kind has its necessary limitations
and that in being by nature and office an
eccIesiasac do not cease to be at the
same time an American citizen. and that
it would be forced and unnatural did
fail in a years review like this to notice.
in however brief a way, the cruel and
base assassination of the President of the
United States in September Of last year.
Such an event as this gives cause for
thought to men who are capable of per-
sistent thoughtfulness. A republic pro-
fesses to represent in the person of It's
executive an absolute will of its people
deliberately, and from time to time ex-
| pressed in the most open and unques
1ioned way 1t matters not so far as
lurking danger is concerned whether titis
will is tlawarted as in the South Ameri-
can republics so often by open revolt and
revolution or as with US during our first
century mere than once by private assault
and violence. In their case the infringe
| ment of the popular will suggests, if 1t
does not disclose, a hidden moral nlalad5
in the body polite that needs a better
and more careful diagnosis than men
seem disposed to give it.
"Let me add in a different vein, that
it is a thought of pleasant entertainment
| by us how after ALL the luxury of these
modern days with its contaninations the
death bed at Buffalo which a nation was
watching from afar. presented as its
crowning lesson a survival of the old days
among us in which it gave picture OF
Christian and absolute simplicity in the
person of the dying ruler. Summoned by
no ceremonials of state, yet calm and dig
nifled in his Christian confidence even to
the last.
.Turning from these general topics and
conditions to the affairs Of our own dio-
cege. / am happy in being able to report
a general advance in the external express
sion at least of growth and prosperity
The corner stones of four new churches
have been laid since we last met and all
hut one of these buildings are open for
divine service.
.on the afternoon of October 6. I laid
the corner stone of the new St. Johns
Church, West Hoboken, in the midst of
large number Of interested onlookers. The
new church is now open for services. st.
Johns has had from the first few
ardent and devoted church lovers among
its small congregation, but chance to
know it's narrow conditions, some thirty
years ago, since which time there had
been but small advance ment. Under the
present vigorous and enterprising rector
such conditions could not continue per-
manently, and the new and attractive
stone church has already, in its better lo-
cation, trebed the numbers Of its inter-
ested congregation.
.'St. Marya parish house In Jersey CITY
has for years occupied, a site directly