The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-06-06
ROCKEFELLER IS A CHRISTIAN.
Preacher Declares Oil King Worthy OF
the Highest Confidence

Preacher Declares Oil King Worthy Of
the Highest Confidence
NEW YORK, June 6.-The criticisms
of John D. Rockefeller growing out OF
his gift Of 100000 to the American
board of foreign missions are declar-
ed TN an article by Rev. DR.. Robert
Stuart Macarthur, pastor of the CAL
vary Baptist church of this city, to be
coarse, cruel and perhaps criminal
and to have aligned the entire Bapstist
denomination.
He protests against the condemna-
ton Of our churches by those cowardly
and unjust attacks" declares that no
one knows better than Mr.. Rockefeller
that he cannot buy the approval of the
Baptists by his millions; that Baptists
would advocate his expulsion from the
church if it were proceed that he had
acquired his money dishonesty or by
means morally or socially destructive.
He adds that he has investigated
certain business transactions which
have been fiercely denounced by Mr..
Rockefeller's critics and has found
them in accordance with the highest
standards of commercial morality. Mr..
Rockefeller he asserts, is worthy of
confidence, admiration and effection,
and he appeals for fairness of judfment
for him.
Rev. DR.. MacArtnur's article is en-
titled 'The Baptist Brotherhood De-
Tended" and is in part as follows:
Declares Rockefeller Worthy.
II affirm that the concensure in
ficted upon the denomination and upon
Mr.. Rockefeller as prominent mem
Der of the Baptist church are unjust.
I have known Mr.. Rockefeller for many
years and my intimate personal &C
quaintance with him has convinced
me that he is worthy of the highest
honor as a man, and Of the fullest con-
honor as a man, and of the fullest con-
Christian.
Il have taken pains to make careful
inquiry regarding certain business
transactions which have been the sub
ject Of fierce denunciation on the part
of some of Mr.. Rockefeller's critics;
and I do not hesitate to declare, on the
basis of such knowledge, that the
transactions when fully understood and
fairly judged, are in accordance with
the highest standards of commercial
morality. My examination has shown
ME that many charges are based on
half truths, and that when the full
truth was ascertained, these very
transactions rebound to Mr.. Rockefel-
lers honor as a leader in business and
as a professor of the Christian faith"
I'm so enormous a business as that
of the Standard Oil company, it is in
evitable that agents of the company
perform acts without Mr. Rockefeller's
knowledge and without his approval.
"a high officer of the Standard Oil
company, intimately acquainted for
nearly a generation with Mr.. Rock
efeller's daily influence in its counsels,
informed me recently that Mr.. Rookie
Teller had always been quick to de-
plore and to corresct instincts of un-
just and injurious over-zeal."
Assassination of Character.
Rev. Mr.. Macarthur declares that
the critics of Mr.. Rockefeller appeal to
the passions of the untinking multi
tude, and that this is assassination of
character. He "repels Indignantly"
the charge that the Baptist denomina-
ton has solicited money from man
whose wealth has been dishonesty ac-
CURED; points out that DR.. William ].
Tucker, president of Dartmouth college
should not be branded as a criminal
because Dartmouth college owned
stock in the Northern Securities, which
company the courts found to be GRIM
inal conspiracy; says that the suppo-
sition that Mr.. Rockefeller is worth
81, 900, 100000 is grossly false and that
in the last two or three years his be-
nevolent gifts were at least twice as
much as the increase in his estate;
asserts that he made gift of high
value to humanity in revolutionizing
business methods, and affirms that
while some men have been crowded to
the wall in the movements Of the
movements of the Standard Oil COM
pany, every competitor was urged to
join it on fair and equal terms.
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