The Jersey City news., 1903-05-22
BISHOP STARKEY
BURIED.
On the Twenty fifth Anni-
versary Of His Entry In
to the Ministry He
Is Laid to Rest.
.INTERMENT IN ALBAN
Great Advancement Of tbs
Diocese During His
Twenty-three Years
lNTERMENT IN ALBAN

Iuiy y-ANe yeiiTS from tue uly Oi "tiiSt
he entered the ministry the last rites
over the body Of Bishop Thomas ALFRED
Starkey were said today in the Rathbins
family plot in Albany. The body of ths
bishop lay in State in Grace Church.
Orange, until yesterday morning, when it
/, was taken to Albany, accompanied bT
/ Mrs. Starkey, Miss Julia Starkey and
other relatives; Archdeacon Alexander
Mann and Rev. H. Fields Saumenig. the
| bishops chaplain. A year ago yesterday.
| at the time the funeral services We're
being held. Bishop Starkey was in Grace
/ Church attending the annual convention
of the diocese.
! The late bishop started in life as q
/ civil engineer, but finally decided to. enter
/ the priesthood, and on May 81, 1S4S.
! he was ordained in the Church of the
Ascension, Philadelphia, by Bishop Alon-
20 Potter. father of the present Bishop
of New York. At the hftieth anniversaE
Of his ordination which was celebrated
in Christ Church, East Orange. the
bishop said, among other things
Fifty years ago. Has the world be-
fore in all its history witnessed changes
so many and so great as those which this
Z
period, with the ten anteeedent years
added to it, chronicles? In my boyhocd
the Delaware River at Philadelphia We
crossed over on boats propelled by horse
power, and ! remember well one day
| when looking at certain great heaps oi
red and yellos earth which We're thrown
up on the green slopes of the Schuylkif
| asked my elderly companion what il
meant, being told by him that the men
were making a new kind Of road whcrs
people said )one could write letter il
the carriage, it would ride so smoothly
Steamships, telegraphs. the wonders
mechanical art, the miracles that annill,
late space: all, indeed, that makes up the
conveniences merely of our ordinary lif
today were then undreamed of.
..Within the church the changes u
fifty or sixty years last past are almost
equally marked. From Sunday to Sun
day, Gods house, half a century o.;
i
more ago, save for one service Oh tlls
greater holy days. was usually closed
and perhaps in Lent. it was opened O
a Wednesday and Friday morning
Tie Holy Communion was celebrated
once a month when convenient Sermons
Of an hours length were listened to witt
a becoming reverence and as solemn
duty; in d word, frigid fcrrnality ruled
over all.
As bishop Of the diocese of Newark fer
twenty three years, Bishop starkey wa
also privileged to witness and have &
part in great advancement Holding thf
strong affections of priests and people
| Bishop Starley kept himself aloof from
petty matters and desired only to furthe
the cause Of the church which he served
/ During the twenty-three years Of his
! episcopate, there were az least forfy-fve
new churches built in the diocese, about
twenty churches We're enlarged, thirty
four parish houses were built, beside:
about twenty rectories. Two hospitals
| Of tile diocese, Christ Hospital in Jersey
/ City AID st. Barnabas's Hospital III
Newark. were established during Bisho::s
Stariyeys time and both have been sew
eral times enlarged The two homes Of
tie diocese and also an orphanage were
likewise founded. At the time Of his
fiftieth anniversary as priest there
were % .40S COMMITMENTS in the diocese.
| Since that time he confirmed 5,403 per-
sons, exclusive of those confirmed during
the past year. the totals Of which have
not yet been made 1t is safe to say
that the confrmations duriug the current
yeai' numbered 1,6O0
Rev. John Keller, secretary Of ths
diocese received the following letter to-
day from the Right Rev. Thomas N.
4 Clark. Of Rhode Island, the presiding
bishop in the United States: