Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-17

district. but throughout the city OF
Newark as we'll"
Former United States Senator
James Smith, jr., was g ven hearty
reception. He declared that he woult
have preferred to reply to the toast
"Reminiscences" than Father Cody
Citizen the toast selected for hin
by the banquet comm ttee. MIR. Smith
preluded his address with the remark
thai he did not intend to say all the
things he knew in praise of the guest
~ honor as he would not attempt
to make so modest a priest as the
dean blush at the praises heaped up
on him.
| Continuing. Mr.. Smith said:
1.-THE early days of Father Cody
brings me back to my boyhood DAYS
when most of the Newark Catholics
resided below the railroad. There was
only one Catholic school then-the
| Kearny School-which stood on the
ste now occupied by st. Michaels
Hospital There we all met. but In
! the list of invited guests recognize
| but few I knew while attending that
school. There was the late Mr. O'Con-
nor, father of our present bishop;
Peter Brady. Thomas O'Rourke and
others of the calibre OF Irishmen who
helped to make Newark the great city
1t is today.
Founded in 1854.
at well remember Father James
| Callan, who was appointed rector of
st. James's Church IN 1854, the year
! the parish was founded and Father
John M. Gervais. who built the first
ST. James's Church. The latter was
a curate of st. Patrick's. and he came
down here and started the work
which Father Cody has completed 50
admirably.
at is a great work that Dean Cody
Is doing for the Catholics of Newark.
but no man. no matter what his re-
lieion, can help but feel proud of
Dean Cody for what he has done for
| this city. He has made hts boys bet
| ter citizens and his people better
people for all concerned The men he
has sent from st. Jamess school and
church. of which he is rector. are
living examples of his work.
ITO dwell upon the vast amount OF
good work accomplished by this great
| priest would take too long a time and
there are other speakers to follow
me, In conclusion I want to say that
| you men of st. James's parish have
| every right to feel proud of the fact
that you are gathered here tonight to
honor one of the best citizens, and
probably without an equal as a priest,
1 In the State of New Jersey"
| CITY Clerk James F. Connolly. one
of the oldest graduates of ST. James's
| School. spoke In an affectionate strain
of the early days of the parish, He
] said:
This occasion appeals to me almost as
profoundly as II must to the very rev.
| erend and most esteemed gentleman In
! hose honor we are assembled. as part
| of Ills life and mine has been connected
! with the history of the parish of st.
James-Father Cody as the agent of the
! bishop OF the diocese Of Newark. dele
/ gated to take charge of Its spiritual aud
temporal well-being, at a neriod when Its
physical and temporal condition of which
| scarcely beyond. the inltlarory state: and
today after devoting forty of the best
years of his life to his great charge. dur
! ing which the shadows OF despair and
| the sunshine of success have alternated
we are gathered about him In one of the
| several comJleted edifices that, as unit
are second to none In this or any other
community dedicated TO the worship OF
Almighty God charity. educat ton and the
relief of suffering humanity, 10 hestow
| upon him our love and commenda tlon
firm In the belief that when time for hin
will he no more and he Is called before
the spnrrow's fall-that he will receive
that most cherished of all encOmums
"Well dole, good aud faithful servant"
Saw CornerstOne Laying.
On the second day of this month en-
tered into my sixty-sixth year OF life
sixty years ago ] was present at the lay
ing Of the cornerstone of the first st
Iames's Church. One year later N,
brother John. who afterward became tn
first Catholic priest ordained from thi
parish, and | served the nrst mass, reai
by the first pastor. the late Rev. Fathe
James Callan We were also among tn
first attendants at the parochial and Sun
day school of the narish when estab
lished In that church ! received my frs
communion and was confirmed at tn
hands of the late Archbishop Bayley. thel
bishop of the diocese of Newark. re
manned an attendant of ST. James
Church until became soldier and fool
part In the greatest war of modern time
James's, su far as my first schooling Il
secular and religious education Is con
cerned. Is, indeed. my alma mater. | an
reminded tonight of that beautiful couule
of the sweetest of Ire'ands poets. Tou
Moore you may break, you may shatte
the vase If YOU will but the scent Of thu
rose will hang round 1t still. y
assure YOU that ones earliest reeollee
lions are. under certain conditions al
ways uppermost in ones mind, Durinj
my long life II has been my privilege t,
visit the PRINCIPAL places of all forms o
worship of this world of ours. ! hav'
stood outside of the dome of st. Peters
the greatest of all places of devotion
listening 10 the music waited from III,
channels THROUGH that grand auditorium
while dreaming Of the grandeur of OLE
pagan Rome-as evidenced In it's crum
bling ruins ! have stood In awe, listen
ing to the reading Of the Koran In th'
nrincinal mosques OF Turkey SYRIA. Indi'
and Egypt-n the temple beneath th'
Snhnx and on the ton of the pyramid d
Cheops that rheodos'us tells us was hull
5000 years before the Christian craze
Wondering while looking over the gloon
OF Sahara and the windines OF the Rive
Nile as II flows from far-oh Africa tha
here lived the Pharaohs and the Rames's
that, according to mythology. Isis ant
Orris's were worshined here and IN thu
magnificent Confuc'an Sb'nto and Budd
hist temples OF the Far East Amid nj
those scenes. everywhere Ike a veil he
fore thesr Grand and marvellous monu
ments and ruins OF the mast and presen
forms of Worship and their PHILOSOPHERS
my mind would revert to the little hricl
church and schoolhonse Of st James g
that has long since disanneared where
was first taught the worship of the liv
ing God Great stress has heen deserv
edly laid uron the strenuous lahors tina
have brought these edieces to completion
Nowhere in the occident or the orient
outside of this nation of ours, would suci
achievement he rossihle.
ResembIed a sandhemp
When the cornerstone of the first st
James's Church was laid-some sixt,
years ago-tne population of this grea
nation was less than 33000000. who wcr
on the verge of internal trouble Sever
years later secessionists sought to 'iisrup
the c0nfederacy of States. and from 1856
to 1860 the War of the Rebellion. In. whicl