The Irish standard., 1895-11-16
lHowthe rIoney Kings Of New York
ReverentIy Bow the Knee sf z
/ S.55 . on Sunday.
Pierpolit Morgan, Cornelius yan-.
derbilt:: Russell Sage and
Others Getting to Heaven.
Vanderbilt Never Kisses a Sunday;
at Church, Goes Early and
4. sits in Front. .':s
Some to the church repair,

| Some to the church repair,
Not for the doctrine but the music there.
| pope's. Essay on Criticism
This begins like a criticism on church
goers, but it is nothing Of the sort. The
foregoing rhyme was quoted to John D.
Rockefeller one Sunday morning when,
tired from an overland journey, dusty still
from travel Of the night before, and dis
lhearteped by worry, he slipped out Of the
house while the others were dressing for
! morning service and found his way to a
church an hour before church time, says
c. S. Russell in the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Organist was practicing holiday
music, as The oil king knew he would be,
and for an hour he sat quietly in the shad-
ow of the gallery listening. No one saw
him but the saint overhead, through
whose Bible wedding garment the light
fell in a mellow flood.
I When the church bells began to ring
| the organist pushed in his stops and
wheeled around to wait for the time TO be-
| gin the choral overture. Then the oil
king arose, slipped quietly out of the
church, and went home by a back street.
| No one knew he had been to church until
he told the pastor that night of it at sup
per. Then the above couplet was fired at,
| him by his quick witted son. In his
Cleveland church Mr.. Rockefeller passes
! the plate-a plain, cloth lined basket.
! John d. Rockefeller is very old-fash-
ioned in one way. He keeps the Baptist
Sabbath as his New England ancestors
kept it. In the morning all go to church.
/ After which each separate member of
| the family teaches a class in Sunday
school, except John d. Jr., who is in his
mothers Bible class. Dinner in the FAM
| lily is at noon, and at night, Dr. France,
the pastor of the church, more often than
| not, takes his Sunday evening meal there.
After supper comes church again, and
| then a private concert of church music
at home They wanted hiln to pass the
! plate in New York, but he decli..ed. s1A, ~
| A different Sunday from this is spent
! by j. PieYpont Morgan, who starts out
promptly at the sound of the chnrch-go-
| ing bell, but who goes to church to work
| rather than to listen Or to enjoy. His
work Of Sunday is as urgent as his affairs
OF Monday
| For many years past J. Pierpont Nor
gan has passed the plate in st. Georges
church, that lovely edifce presided over
| by the young sensatioEalist, DR.. Rains
| ford. Many Of the latter . views eInanatn
| from the brain Of Pierpont Morgan, and
when the young clergyman waved the red
| flag of antagonism in the faces of DR..
Parkhurst and other leaders, by advocat-
| ing the placing of the saloons in the hands
| of the church, he got his ideas straight
!! from that head of executive ability. FJ +,
Pierpont Morgan. Both gentlemen Want
saloons open certain hollgs snn Sunday and
| both gentlemen work hard Sunday after
moons, discussing, with uiel, af finance and :
head, the way To put the church aud sa -4
loon on better terms with each other &
No one could see, j.. PieinonS, Morgan
| pass the plate3la church and ever forget
! the picture. The striking face OF X Mr.
| Morgan, his imposing bearing, and the
timit] humble way he 81 idess tho gold fli-
gree plate in the peVi front Of you ma lse5s
| a strange contrast III the mao. It is5bes5
cause he loves tp collect money for atheS
Herd tllat street doe tnr's passes.
tho plate, mot because lie thinks he can
gather na0re than al y body elss. FF43
X III 81 is net al Teryl clever collector, for after
| once starting the plate on its round doyrt
the church pew he 1aodestly casts his Eyes
10 the ground and takes care not to sse
wfl lich 4 sling QIents cast into the waiting
Iplate. ori Afpfgan receives more of5s
| these than any other collector d n 81
Georges, bit his Nv VI green roll, privately;
| cast into the gold Fin, atDnes for the l0z-g
enges and ransons them all. 5i & 55t
| One OF J. Peirpont Morgan's theories
lsarg,1ed weekly with church hrnen, ia the
high salaries OF min listers. He contends.
|they should receive as laFgesa sum as any
lother profe essional man at the head of hiss
profession. The $4,000 d year of ttls,S
prosperous laWye Jig none 10 much for:
|them$ according to the j. Pterpolt Morgan
standard. Alaska will; have a bishop nov,s33
not from the proceeds Of the plate carried
| weekly by the dnancier,s but from the
check VII ich he has guaranteed. He will
ipay the salary Of the bishop Of Alaska for
three years, and at the end OF that time he
hopes the people of Alaska will have
Ienough money to pay II themselves. lf
they haven' he will continue to send the
yearly check T hat is the kind Of chvrc
man j. PierponE Morgan is: :5# X @
Cornelius Vande rbi Ns does not OWL ss
lBartholomeW the prstty church on .atEt
! Iison avenue, near the Grand Cesltraaf stass
ton but he feels as &c II belong ed $t0 him.
| On Torty-second street, well over gps9s
ward the poorer quarter 8 of View
there is a st. Bastlfo lonleH miss sinn WI u
Isl largely supported bsS d " and
checks, and the char ies spf the tt
Hook to him for a H oV YER the 8 winter
.:.wpse1ty years ne carr The contrih ihut1uk
Iplate rsgiIla but terly has
III. .Vahsertt never, mis- SEA d sundaysI
lin church. Iie goes earl .si is well fffnnt,1g
KEEPS the 9 music tlass