The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-21
Riches and Salvation.

April 21-"Ricfes do not bar one from sal
vation Salvation depends on whether the
man possesses the gold or the gold pos
sesses him.
Thus pigrammatically John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., who some da" will inherit "a fortune of
more than $500, 1000, expressed himself be-
fore the young mems Bible class in the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church
n Until yesterday Mr.. Rockefeller had avoided
touching on the subject of riches in his Sun
day talks to his Bible class.
when Jesus said that it was as impossible
for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven
as it was for a camel to pass through the
eye OF a needle, in my opinion he did not
mean that his words were to be construed in
the literal, broad sense.
sIf ambition and pleasure are the ruling
passions of ones life, they should be thrown
aside. Christ should come first. If the rich
man places his possessions first he cannot
enter the kingdom of heaven.
"But the possession OF wealth will not bar
one from heaven. 1t is the improper use of
it, The improper use of any ability or earth
ly possession is equally offensive in the SIGHT
Of Cod
To Boycott. Meat.
The Central Federated Union spent great
part of it's session to-day in discussing the
feasibility of the members of its affiliated
unions .abstainins from beef and mutton for
a month as one means of inducing the beef
trust to lower their prices of beef and mutton
AS a rule the thin delegates favored the anti
meat idea. The fat men of the Central Fed
Grated Union declared that it was ridiculous
and impracticable.
A Boys Hard Life.
John Bassechael, 10 years old, was found by
a policeman curled up and asleep in corner
Of Fordham car or Saturday night. At the
station the boy said his father and mother
were dead He had been earning his own
living the last month by selling newspapers.
tle earned enough to keep UP the 10 cents a
week payment his own life insurance,
which would pay his funeral expenses when
| he died.
When asked where he slept at night, the boy
said the conductors on the Bronx cars were
kind and some of them allowed him to ride
| the length of the road and return for one fare
at night He went to sleep as soon as he got
on board: and did not wake up until the car
| reached the starting point.
Magistrate Mott turned the boy over to the
| chiidren's society.
New Witness Against Molineux.
| Important new evidence to be used at the
coming retrial of Roland +. Molineux for the
! D. 49,
| discovered by Assistant District Attorney
| lanes W. Osborn and the police Of Newark
N j. They announce they have found Tho
| store in Newark where Molireux purchased
| cyanide of mercury in December, 1888 shortly
before the poison package was sent through
the mails to Harry S. Cornish. CORNISH
1 thinking it was harmless, administered 1t tt
/ Mrs Adams. Just before MT osborne sallee
| for Europe, former emrloye of the house
| * VII wholesale
| naint and chemical store at Mulberry ant
i Clinton streets, Newark, volunteered the in
/ formation that cyanide of mercury had beer
j purchased, apparently IN the ordinary course
i Of business. by Herman & Co.. where Moli
neux was superintendent shortly before thu
poisoning of Mrs. Adams. This witness vii
! be produced at the trial next MONTH
Form Of Services for MethOdists.
i At a recent Methodist conference the desir
| was expressed by one of the clergymen TO
4 a prescribed form of service and prayers il
that church. At a recent Presbyterian meet
1 ing an eminent minister advocated the OBJ
1 seryance in that denomination of the Hol.
4 days, such as Ash Wednesday, Good Frida.
4 and the like. A Baptist church in Harlem ha
Just introduced a srrpliced choir and pre-
4 cessional.
& One Barrier Left.
q "a man and woman were walking up Wal
4 street few days ago. Said the woman
pointing to Trinity church: What an in,
4 pressiye thing it is that that splendid churc1
should stand there at the head OF his stree
i. of finance, silently bet powerfully pointin
to Cod here where the competition for gold !
fierciest!. Answered the man: Nothing 0
II the kind The church is a nuisance there. i
should be pulled down and the site given owe
4 to business, which needs it, Something 0
a the spirit of this man actuated the capitalist
i whosare said to have recently offered 5000.
for ST.. Pauls chapel and church yard 70
/. the site Of great Office building. The spiri
of the woman influenced the churcbmen VIII