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ATTITUDE OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
The Rockefeller gift of $100,000 to
the American board of foreign mis
sions has already served one good pur
pose. It has revealed the attitude of
the Christian church in America to
ward polluted wealth. It must be con
fessed with regret that the attitude
is not more unequivocal and uncom
promising. It is true that the great
majority both of laymen and minis
ters are perpendicularly against ac
cepting one penny of this man's mil
lions, the heaping up of which has en
tailed so much human misery. But
there are others who advocate accept
ance of this money and for reasons
so specious and unethical as to arouse
the indignation of those who seek to
cherish the highest Christian ideals.
For example, a well-known president
of a well-known school of theology
urges acceptance in the following
worus:
"I would accept gladly $100,000,000
from Mr. Rockefeller or from anyone
else. The idea of considering where
the money was obtained is, in a meas
ure, ridiculous, when the thought of
the good it will do is concerned. When
we think of the blessings that can be
conferred upon thousands by the gen
erosity of a person willing to part with
his money for worthy motives, such
gifts can not be spurned for trivial
reasons. Fortunes collected in many
of the trades and professions of the
present day can not be said always to
be gained in a manner that the church
would commend. Rockefeller's sys
tem is no worse than many others.
The church accepts gifts of money for
worthy purposes from many such per
sons. When I think of the good I
might accomplish with the $100,000
gift 'of Mr. Rockefeller, I am more
and moro convinced that the objection
to the acceptance of it was not sus
tained by the arguments brought for
ward." This man does not attempt to de
fend the character of the donor. He
thinks it is utterly ridiculous to con
sider where or how his money was
obtained. He would perhaps see no
objection to the acceptance of a do
nation from a gambler or a thief.
The objection of sharing in such
spoils he thinks would be for trivial
reasons. The best that he can say
for the Standard Oil Croesus is that
he is no worse than many others
whose help the church has not
spurned. Has he not in this urged
the strongest reason for the mission
ary board to decline this money. If
it is true that the church connives at
immoral business practices by shar
ing in the proceeds, is it not time
that church officials were rebuked for
such connivances, especially when the
rule can be drawn against a man who
is confessedly the summary and syn
thesis and the very embodiment of
some of the worst practices in our
modern commercial life? The chief
apologist, almost the only apologist
(outside of hired writers and paid
speakers) which Mr. Rockefeller has
had of late is H. H. Rogers, who has
been his life-long associate and ac
complice. Mr. Rogers' principal plea
for his senior partner is that he has
never broken the law but once, and
then unconsciously. He has done only
what others have been doing. "Why,
then," says Mr. Rogers, "select him
for a sole example." The answer Is
that he has been the arch offender
and the testimony against him is all
but unanimous and conclusive. It is
the duty of the Christian church, if
not of the secular state, to make
careers like his so odious that few
of the younger generation will care to
J follow in his footsteps. Ram's Horn.
European travels, Lectures, Speeches
By William J. Bryan
A New Book
Entitled
Under Other Flags
This book Is a compilation of Mr. Bryan's reports, describing his Euro
pean tour and a number of his most popular lectures. His European letters
aro fourteen In number, descriptive of, the tariff rebate in England, Ireland
and Her Lenders, France and Her People, The Switzerland Republic, Ger
many and Socialism, Russia and Her Czar, "Tolstoy, the Apostle of Love,"
together with other and equally Interesting accounts of Mr. Bryan's trip
abroad.
Tho Thanksgiving Day Address delivered by Mr. Eryan at the banquet
given by tho American Society of London, Nov. 26, 1903, is printed in full.
Tho letters from Cuba, written by Mr. Bryan, aro reproduced in this volume.
Tho address entitled "Patriotism" delivered by Mr. Bryan at the banquet
given by tho Cuban veterans to Governor General "Wood is herein reproduced.
Mr. Bryan's articles describing his first visit to Mexico also appears in
"Under Other Flags." An article written by Mr. Bryan describing his sec
ond visit to Mexico is another feature of this volume
"A Conquering Nation" Is tho title of a lecture delivered by Mr. Bryan
at a number of chautauquas, and that lecture appears In full in "Under Other
Flags." Other articles aro as follows: "Tho Attractions of Farming;" an
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the Holland Society In Now York City, In January, 1904: Mr. Bryan's re
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Indianapolis, August 8, 1900; Mr. Bryan's speech at the St. Louis Conven
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Have Kept tho Faith."
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1899, which speech was entitled "Naboth's Vineyard," also appears In this
volume.
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