Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-13
BISHOP LINES To
OPEN CONVENTION
FOR EIGHTH TIME
Thirty-seyenth Annual Diocesan
Gathering Will Begin
Next Tuesday.
CHURCH EXTENSION WORK
TO BE ONE OF CHIEF TOPICS
Meet at Trinity Church Will
Represent l26 Parishes, Com
prising $4,000 Members.

When the Right Rev. Bishop Edwin
S. Lines, of the Newark Episcopal.
diocese, presides at the thirty-seventh
annual convention of that religious
body, in Trinity Church, next Tuesday,
it will ANIMAL the eighth session in
which he has officiated as the bishop
of the diocese. He came here in 1903
from the rectorship of st. PauPs Epis-
eopalt Church, in New Haven, Conn.
Under>h supervision the Newark do
cese has evidenced a remarkable
growth and the reports to be sub
mitted at the coming two-days' meet
on Tuesday and Wednesday will show
that the year 1910 has been one of the
most progressive, both spiritually ana
financially, in the history of the do
cese.
The diocesan officials, who will take
a prominent part in the work of the
convention, will be he Rev. John KEEL
Ter, secretary, of this city; the Rev.
William T. Upton, assistant secretary,
of Bloomfield: Edwin A. Stevens,
treasurer, of Hoboken; Edwin A. s.
Brown, assistant also of Ho-
boken; Frederick E. Hodge, registrar,
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chancellor, of Morristown.
AS usual, the holy communion will
be solemnized at the opening session.
Bishop Lines officiating, assisted by
the Rev. Louis Shreve Osborne, rector.
of Trinity Church. The bishop will
also deliver his annual address before
the ministerial and lay delegates, who
will number 200 and represent 126 par
ishes. 49, 900 cu~mmunicants, 1850 teach
ers and 1900 pupils. The executive
work, comprising the naming of com
mittees, discussing of diocesan needs,
and election of officers will be the vital
features considered.
The secretary will call the clerical
roll OF members and lay delegates n
the candidates for holy orders will be
admitted and given honorary seats.
ON Tuesday evening the members OF
the Church Club of the diocese and
the delegates will enjoy a dinner In
Trinity parish house in Rector street.
Newark DiyInes at Meet.
Among those who will participate in
the sessions will be the Revs. Elliott
White and Morton A. Barnes, of Grace
Church; the Revs. Henry H.. Hadley
and W. Landon Rice, of st. Paurs: the
Kew, JO1n .. MlllGls VI ~ i'DN1> -
PRAYER; the Rev. Edmund A. Wasson,
of St. stephens Church; the Rev. Il.
Percival Bate, of st. James; the Rev.
Frank I'll. Hallock. of Christ Church,;
The Rev. Charles H.. Wells, of st. An
drew's; the Rev. e. N. Curtis, of st.
Thomas's Church; the Rev. Stephen II.
Cranberry, of ST. Barnabas; the Rev.
Rowland S. Nichols, of st. Johns, n
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ity. all of Newark.
The out of city parishes that will send
pastoral and law representatives will be
Christ Church, Harrison; st. Andrews
church. South Orange; st. Paurs, East
Orange; Grace Church, Orange; Church
OF the Redeemer. Morristowni Holy
Communion Church, South Orange; the
Epiphany Church, Orange; st. Agnes,
East Orange; st. Stephens and st,
Johns parishes, Jersey City. and st.
PauTs and Holy Innocent's churches in
Hoboken.
The local lay delegates to the session
consist of Frank A. Hough, J. Edmund
Buchlein, Eugene Willwerth, James
Clements, Charles A. Grunmon, Arthur
Dixon. A. E. Barlow. Il. Z. Sisserson,
Edward Fl. Wright, ir., Claude h
Wheatly. Charles r.. Foster, George II.
Matthews, G. Wisner Thorne, Burton
Leroy Hare, Joseph N. Webb, e. w.
Bellar, Matthew Heitlinger, George Lin
nett, Bernard M. Terlinde, Charles p
Baldwin. n a%lternates, Frederick A.
Geiger, Jacob L. Hemhauser, Charles
Koch, George A. Hay. Frank Brabson,
Ralph jefferson. O. T. Baxter, f. S
CFocker, j. w. Hill, Edward f, Field
ing, Wainwright Ripley, Charles s.
Webbe, DIR. Theodore w. Corwin, Frank
]. Urquhart, j. p. Clements, Frederick
w. Corwin. William Stansbury, James
TT. Marley, Charley r.. Bastock and
Charles e. Estabrook.
During the past year the diocese has
erected the new ST. Andrews Church,
at Clinton avenue and South Seven
tenth street, at an outlay of 100000
This Is an offshoot chapel of Grace
Church. The new $30,0 600 Trinity chapel
in Rector street, is also another evil