Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-17
Every Afternoon and Evening
ROCKEFELLER, SAVIOR
DISCUSSED BY LECTURER

DR.. Alex. ]. McIvor-Tyndall, in a
lecture at Blanchard hall last night,
expressed his belief in the mission of
the Standard Oil magnate ito redeem
the world from it's hell of CONNER
cialism" through the force of an OBJ
ject lesson on the powerlessness of
wealth. The speaker took for the
text of his discourse, John D. Rookie
feller, the Twentieth Century Savior"
and said in part:
ITO call John D. Rockefeller a sa-
vior' must appear as little short of
blasphemy to those to whom Jesus ap-
peals as the one and only savior of
mankind. But let us see. The real
meaning of the word savior is one
who saves or delivers from SIM
"Sin is really mistakes. expert
ences. Therefore, anyone who, by ex-
ample or otherwise, saves mankind
from mistake is savior In John D.
Rockefeller, we have the personifica-
tion of the commercial spirit of this
century. He stands for money, the
god of the age. In this capacity he
| attracts and holds the attention of the
abstract world.
"If John d. Rockefeller and the
greatest divine could be billed to speak
in the same city at the same time the
one to tell how to enter the kingdom
of heaven and the other how to get
ri inI1 ia
efeller would have the larger audience.
ITO enter the kingdom of heaven
means to the average of mankind to
enter into possession of great wealth.
Let us ask ourselves why it is that
people want wealth. From the stand
point of reason logic, and what is
contemptuously referred to as com
mon sense people do not want money.
They merely think that they do. They
want happiness. They want surcease
from sorrow and strife and worry, and
the tyranny of the material.
"They want, in fact, knowledge, but
they do not know that they want it.
They enormously imagine that the
possession of immense wealth insures
the power to buy happiness. They
have been told that knowledge is
power and they have misconstrued
the word knowledge
1.-THE greed which is rampant in the
commercial world has infested the re-
ligious world. Each little namehesd
wants to be 1t. VIII this unified
church" be Presbyterian or Baptist or
Catholic or Episcopalian?' they ask.
with the differences and the ad-
yantages of one creed over another
gone, what is there to preach aboutY
the shortsighted complain, forgetting
that there is plenty of work to do in
teaching the everyday, busy. hustling
wall-street world the truth that love
for our fellow beings actually pays in
actual commercial returns.
ST do not think 1t is too much to say
that in the person of John d. Rookie
feller we have one whose mission 1t
may be to redeem the world from its
hell of commercialism. of competition,
OF abject servile slavery to the call OF
the dollar.
THAT his message should be deIiv-
ereu under the guise or the established
church is natural. The church repre-
sents to him faith. He has not yet
learned to doubt the infallibility OF
ecclesiasticism and he does not yet
know that faith is in no way depen-
dent upon church or creed or tenets
of belief.
"But the man who can seriously pros
pose the dream Of the occultist, l. e.,
unified purpose and ideal-a percep-
tion of the universe. has within him
wonderful possibilities. He may yet
come out into the open, where Gods
sunlight is free TO all. The unifed
church can never be anything less than
the individual realization that all life
is one-that beast and bird, ana all
phases and expressions OF life-snergy.
are part Of life. ana therefore part
OF uA"