Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-28
EP|SCOPAL|ANS
IN NCONvENTION
AT OLD TRINITY
Bishop Lines, in Address, As
serts "OId Families" Are Fall
tering in Public Duty.
NEWCOMERS TO COUNTRY
NOW ON EQUAL TERMS
Prelate Condemns Colorado
Strike Conditions-BIames
Absentee Owners.
NEWCOMERS TO COUNTRY
NOW ON EQUAL TERMS

hOAAiNEb oul tOOdy ny DiSIOp I4uNll
Lines, head of the Protestant Eplsco-
pal diocese of Newark, at the fortieth
annual convention of the diocese in
Trinity Church. this city.
8fhe prelate told the delegates that
the descendants of the ''old stock
are living in a good deal of luxury
and ease upon the money earned by
those who went before them, lie de-
clared this class appears to have lost
the stimulus to larger attainment
now that they have attained ease and
comfort.
Bishop Lines also asserted that the
newcomers to this country are maxi
ing fully as largo .tributions to
science and to political and social
work as are being made by descend
ants of the old family.
"Among our worst citizens" said
Bishop Lines, who let things go bad-
ly in our State and communities be-
e cause they will not take time and
trouble to fight against public cor
ralption arc an unusual number of
representative of the old families"
Labor situation.
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the conventions to recent labor trou-
bles. He asserted that the strikes at
Lawrence, Mass, Northern Michigan
and Colorado will leave a bitterness
of feeling that will last a generation.
He said he felt that large numbers of
foreign laborers have been exploited
and misused for the pockets of per-
sons who have seemed to know little
or care little for these conditions.
Absentee ownership was con-
demned by the speaker.
In giving a diocesan summary for
the year Bishop Lines said:
During the year ending May ,o4l
persons were confirmed, the niimper
being smaller than usual because
nearly 800 combinations in some OF
our larger parishes, on account OF the
( late coming of Easter this year, VIII
\ fall into the year beginning May !.
Nm the year ending May l two dTss
Tons were advanced to the priesthood
a,sd six persons were ordained dea-
cons. The clergy Economically connect-
ed with the diocese number ioe, 9 ana
there are 1856 churches, chapels ana
missions in which services are regu-
larly maintained. There are now four,
teen candidates for holy orders ana
ten postulants The opportunity Tor
new forms of work and service I'M
presses one so strongly as to make the
story of what has been done give
place to the thought Of what we
ought to do.
Tribute TO Preiate.
Bishop Lines at the, opening of has
address paid a tribute to the iate
Bishop Scarborough and other New
Jersey clergymen who died since eiie
last conclave. He went on:
II n ND -anXiGtleb
nartiv because the great majority OF
neopie who are living here are
foreien born or one removed, there
from making a great company OF
naonle without our traditions and
training. It will be found, however,
that there is among the new people
great intellectual activity, a desire
to learn and an appreciation OF tiie
new opportunities In the new Worio.
There are as disquieting tendencies
amonp the successors OF the English
speaking people who have been long
In the country, as among the new
comers.
aIf YOU make note Of those who are
making contributions to medical
science, to political and soclai
studies, to charitable undertakings.
to plans for the improvement OF
comnnunity life, you will find as
rs as names long familiar in this
country. Descendants of what one
nav call the old stock where pros
nerity has been reached, are living
i, a good deal of luxury and ease
upon money earned by those VINO
went before them, without a very
serious and useful purpose and NOT
ter life. It may fairly be ques-
toned. whether the old stock IL
showing as much vigor as the new
n is an old saying. that society is
always dying at the top, ana there
are many things to indicate lte
truth. n,
.'yu'.h the attainment OF ease and
cofr,.,,,. the stimulus to large attain-
ment and service seems lost: Amone
o,,r worst citizens, who let things sc
hadiy in our State and communities
becaI,se they will not take time and
trouble to fight against public corrup-
tion are an unusual number or repre-
sentatiyes of the old families. There
seems to be disposition on their
mart to make themselves comfortable
and to neglect their public duties
There is as little public spirit In many
of our most beautiful suburban COM
nounities as you will find anywhere
N the new generation of young men
and Young women are going to 1--we
upon the generation before, without
exertion, without sense of RESPONSE
bility. they will be displaced by the
children of the newcomers, to whom
the future of the country will belong
II is better to stir up this new genera
tion which desires ease and luxurious
living, freedom from exertion, than
to spend our time In anxiety over
what the newcomers will do with US
I'VE need also to feel as we have
not before, a mission to the newcom-
ers. who have in them such elements
of power and so great desire to take
advantage of the new opportunities ln
life We need a larger outlook, bet.
ter appreciation of the conditions and
the changes which are surely coming
This means the cultivation of more
ueighborly kindness, more, friendly
community life getting closer to-
uether for the common good, and this
mother church of English speaking
people ought to lead the way.
There ought to be new spirit II
the clergy and in our people in every
community, not primarily to add tc
our numbers, surely not to disturb
recognized church relations, but te
make the church gilmore service anc
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