The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-09
felt by those who differed most from him
in opinion, and it is a whole city that nov
unites to honor him."
REV. LOUIS S. OSBORNE.

The Rev. Louis Shreve Osborne, rector
OF Trinity Episcopal Church, made the
closing address. He said:
"A great churchman of nearly nineteen
hundred years ago described himself as "a
citizen of no mean city, Good citizenship
is an outward, visible sign of a good
churchman. The day has long past, thank
God, when the function of the church
man was to stand aloof above the common
herd like Simeon Stylites on his lofty
pillar. Today, at any rate, his spirit leaps
within him to be in and among the throngs
of men, men his brothers, men the
workers, to share their joys and their sor-
rows, their hopes and fears. their sue
cesses and their failures, their work and
play.
"Such was he whom we hold in grateful
remembrance today, and to whom an APP
preciative community has erected this
memorial. Whatever tended to the welfare
and uplift of this city of his love found
an alder and promoter in Monsignor
Doane. Art. music, literature, the public
playground, the hospital, the library, the
park system, charity, philanthrophy, owe
to him a debt it is difficult to oyeresti-
mate.
Associated with him as I was in many
schemes for civic and social betterment, l
know whereof 1 speak when l say TO you
that few men of this generation gave more
of their time and thought and work and
prayers to the public veal than did he.
among the first of the clergy to well
eome me on my coming to Newark eigh-
teen years ago, my rather intimate ac-
uuaintance with Father Doane really be-
gan when we worked side by side to in
~augurate the Saturday afternoon closing
movement, which has since become a
recognized institution during the summer
months.
1.-The monsignor was one of those men
who was most loyal to his church because
he was larger than his church. 1t is not
exclusiveness but broad sympathy that
makes any church influential and COM
mends it to humanity. Led by conscience
to withdraw from the church in which his
father and brother were eminent bishops,
he could yet respect the consciences of men
in other rooms of the one household of
faith.
"Among the many letters OF graduation
which were read at the 10th anniversary
of dear old Trinity in 1896, the sweetest
and tenderest of all was one from the
m%onsignor. in viii he sent me his bless
ing and assured me that some of the most
sacred associations of his boyhood and
early manhood clustered around yonder
venerable and venerated temple.
1T is the lot of few ecclesiastics to
have their memory kept green and their
names uttered with equal love by Hebrew
and Christian, Catholic and Protestant,
even by men of no definite religious af-
fliation whatsoever. True, it is possible
to achieve an eyanescent popularity by
playing fast and loose with ones theologi-
cal or political convictions.
Blu true tolerance, the genuine charity
of which the apostle writes, Is consistent
only with a profound belief in the abiding
truth of ones own creed, coupled with
sincere love for men of other methods OF
thought and a willingness to attribute TO
them the same honesty of purpose we
claim for ourselves.
"And 80 Newark honors herself today
in honoring one of her noblest, most pa
%triotic, most public-spirited citizens,
May this statue in bronze, perpetual
ing the form and features of one whom a
grateful city loves, speak to generations
yet to be the message that good religion
is best proven by service to our brother
men, our fellow citizens, exhorting them
in the apostolic words, Whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are reverend,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovable, whatsoever things are gracious,
take account of those things"