Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-04
NO MORE MONEY
10 Be Taken from Rockefeller
by the Baptists.
Feel That His Millions Have Been
Wrested from the Poor.
And That His Cash Will Not Fit In
With Religion.

| Alton. ILL.,. Jan. Sit developed here,
| saturday. that the American Baptist
| Educational Societies of Ill Fifth ave-
| nue., New York. and John ID. Rockerfel-
| Ter nave had disagreement and that
hereafter large number OF the Bap-
list colleges of the country viii refuse
- receive the gifts and donations from
! The oil magnate.
| One OF the principal reasons for such
| a stand is said to be the position which
some of the leading Baptists maintain
| mat Rockerfeller is Wringing his
money from the poor by means OF a
trust and that the proceeds from
such business should not be used for
educational and religious purpose.
ShortieH College, the oldest in the
West, and leading baptist educational
institution i'll Illinois outside Chicago.
is located here. Shurtleff has been the
recipient of several donations from the
Educational Society. As Mr.. Rocker
teller has been one of the most liberal
patrons of the society, the greater por-
ton of the donations to the several in
stitutiOns have come from him.
President Stanley a. Mckay of
Shurtleff College. would neither affirm
nor deny the story in regard to the ac-
ton of the several colleges.
''Shurtlef has not recently had the
opportunity to accept or refuse any
gifts from Mr.. RoCkerfeller, as that
gentleman has not offered any," said
President Mckay. our latest dona-
ton WAS an addition of $50, 900 to our
endowment fund. which came from the
education society. We are not sup
posed to know just how much of this
donation was made BY Mr.. Rocker
Teller. | will say this, however that
ShurtlefT recently secured the services
81 the Rev. Norman Carr, financial
secretary Of Franklin College at
Franklin, Ind, and has placed him in
the field rs field secretary. We are now
raising most of our funds directly from
The BaDtists and other friends in Hi
no:s'-
Tho Rev. DR.. Myron w. Haynes, pas
tor of the Belden Avenue Baptist
church in Chicago. is the president of
the Shurtlef board of trustees ard
was instrumental in securing the Rev
MI. Carr to tax" charge of the college
bereNolencc. When the Baptist edu-
cation societies Were organized several
years ago to support the benevolences
to the various educational institutions
OF the denominations in the United
states. President a. G. Slocum of Kali
amazoo College. Michigan. was made
president and the Rev DR.. III. l..
Moorchouse Of iii Fifth avenue. New
York. was until recently, secretary
Mr.. l;ockerfeller. from the beginning.
has been q prominent patron and the
facts in relation to this matter are
given from Il reliable source as the
cause of Secretary MOOrehOuses re-
tiremcnt. 1t is said that Mr. Rocker
teller hereafter will give all his gifts
direct to those institutions that will
accept them as he does at present to
the University Of Chicago
The principal colleges affected int the
West are William Jewel ut Liberty,
Mo-: Des Moines College in Iowa, and
Franklin College in Indiana. A num-
Der of the theological institutions in
the East are also said TO be affected.
including the Crozier Theological Sem
mary mt Upland. Pa, and the Newton
Theological Seminary at Newton Cen
ter. Mass.