The Minneapolis journal., 1905-04-10
TAINTED MONEY
TALK is IDLE
MINISTER SAYS TAINTED CON
SCIENCES CAUSE TROUBLE.
Rev.. Theodore gHeyshan Discusses
Rockefeller Gift from,ta New Stand
point Takes Exception to Remarks
Of g.! L. Morrill-Effect Of the Con-
troversy Upon the Church. ,1.".


Rev.. Theodore Heyshan, pastor of
Central Baptist church, discussed; the
Rockefeller contribution to. the Ameri-
can board? yesterday, but from a new
standpoint. :" Sitting down to the, real
issue, - he said, the protest is, first,
tainted source, and second, the char
acter OF good name of the church. The
reply of the board is in effect that: 1t
is for the heathen, not the board, to
settle the moral questions. This is
their idea of their function: First
The board has no more OF a moral prob
| lem than an express; company when
! only the benefciaries who have the
right to refuse gift. -.. -.
= Different Opinions.
"The question has been treated, in
| various form and with varied feel
ings. The gravity of the situation seems
not to have been seized. T h e j our
a of March 81, 1905, has the follow
ing from Sioux City, Iowa, purporting
to come from the pastor of the First
Congregational church Of that city. At
ter sneering at the whole matter as a
farce, he says: What difference would
4 it. make if the devil himself should
come, along, hang purse on one of his
horns and [ should take it off and use it
for missionary work ?. L wish some such
thing would happen to me-. l certainly
would accept the purse and feel no com
! FUNCTIONS of conscience ~either.' 1t is a
| pity when such unbecoming and sacri-
1egious language is heralded from the
I pulpit. ~. zoo- -,
| the address of man by the name Of G.
l.. Morrill,, who has his headquarters at
caustic and questionable things report
ed in that address was this sad state
~ ment: 'The test Of mans character
4 is not SO much how he made his money,
but how he spends it. One cannot
but feel panied that anyone should
seek to Justify Judas Iscariot g charac-
ter even in a theater. T J ourn ,
. speaking. of this same address, re-
! a naphorism for anything you really
! aphorism for anything you really want
i want to do - ~
! :, Effect Upon the Church. -.
i Mr.. Hayshan contends that the
: board should have .hesitated to accept
= this gift because of it's effect upon the
> church. "Better, ,'.'she says, far better
had it been for, the members of the
" board to have recalled the great prin-
T ciple enunciated by the apostle Paul,
I Meats offered to. idols are nothing to
me. can eat with no harm to myself.
: 1t is all right for me personally. But
if meat make my brother to offend, !
r will eat no more while the world
stands Better preserve the unity OF
! the spirit in the bonds Of peace than
be: filled with money from Golfers that
will bring offense to the brotherhood of
the, churches. .,...,,e. :. +':
sions is,not an express company recely,'
ing a package. without moral responsi
4 bilityein the mat4eelf IT cannot SHIT
: the moral respo sibilifa9 onto the heath
: heathen,. rbut 10. thek several churches
, that have. called it Tito being ~. $>"'
( %sz Awakening Of Conscience: ;: :
whole contest? says Nj. Heyshan
; than the awakening of conscience
: Two articles have recently appeared II
Q The Journal. They are writer
l from different points of view. Both arr
true. The one is an editorial OF, tht
q issue. of April Z, in which the writer
: speaking of the rebate systems says
9 Such acts were never open, fair O.
> decent, law or no law. The othe
! comes from the chief solicitor Of ;th'
g Standard Oil company, Mr.. Dodd: Pub
lie opinion, more enlightened in these
/ days than in those, may have discov
7, cred that this was all wrong; but q
;: that time the business man WHO di(
n not accept that method would bette
$ have closed his shop.
J. 1fFThe: system of rebates has happil.
received the condemnation Of law. Th
l. Standard welcomed the change as
g beneficial one. But to say now that i
n should not have obtained the best rate
IS under the old system which its position
l. enabled it to obtain is an impossibl
II counsel of perfection. .~.*5,
3 t'Both: these statements 7 believe t.
% be true. :Unquestionably it was i'm
moral to receive rebates before the LAY
t. was passed. The law simply declare
T. the moral iniquity of the whole trans
'e1 action. 1t made the iniquity> public
't:I BY the law the knowledge of the sinfu,
T. ness was proclaimed to all"
Il Change in Public Opinion. "a
=. Mr.. Heysham recognizes a change i
"a "a lightenment which makes for more ser
u !. sitive consciences. No man can seps
"a rate himself from this moral ISSUE
y y Like the nervous system of our bodies
W y, it permeates the social body. "Thi
~ ~ problem of money is the root of all cyl
~ The nerve of conscience is sensitiv
:. along certain lines which demand ths
~ saloons shall keep respectable distanc
T. F. from schools: It prohibits food adq
ii ii terations and requires that 'poisons b
a q properly labeled. But the consciene
~ nerves are dull along many other line
Y. Money is loaned without regard to tn
- use to be made of it,
1e !"Houses are rented without regard
II the character of the tenants. If "
" could live up to our consclences, NIL
~ ~ neapolis would be turned upside dow
Of Of within twenty-four hours: Christia
: men would not build and beautify s.
Z looms nor keep them. in repair. Evl
<F would mot be advertised in the publ
'# press for gain. 1t is idle to talk abol