The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-03
GODS WORK NEEDS
THE DIRTY DOLLAR
Rev. G. L. Morrill, Says 1t VIII
Do More Than Stingy
Saints Nickel

1.-The devils dollar will go further
and do more work than the stingy
saints nickel Gods work needs the
almighty dollar" was the declara-
ton made by Rev. G. L. Morrill, in the
Peoples church in Minneapolis yester-
day morning.
The pastor took for his subject yes
terday Filthy Lucre, !" and devoted a
portion of his discourse to the objec-
lions which certain persons had made
to the acceptance of the contribution
of 100000 which John d. Rockefeller
lad made to the American Board of
Foreign Missions. In this connection,
he said:
Christ settled the question of dirty
money in his parable of 1.-The Unjust
Steward" when he said, Make to your
selves friends of the mammon of un-
righteousness The meaning Of this is
BE sensible and prudent, and use the
world and the worlds goods against the
world and for God"
Dr.. GLADDEN. told the Congregational
board of missions to let j.. ID. Roeke-
fellers money perish with him.. This
would have been ''wasteful and ridiculous
excess and the board wisely refused
to take the advice and kept the 100000.
The acceptance of the money did not
mean an Endorsement of the method by
which 1T may have been made. do not
believe it was contributed with any such
motive. The refusal of Mr.. Rockefellers
money would have been a clerical insult
to his generosity.
The Savior without any questions COM
plimented the poor widow who gave two
mites. The oil, wine and money the good
Samaritan gave the poor unfortunate on
the Jericho road were most helpful no
the thirty pieces of silver which were the
Judas price of Christ's betrayal, bought a
potter,s field in which poor strangers
How many churches. colleges hospitals
and charitable Christian institutions
could be built or maintained on gold or
the mine? God made the silver and gold
and says they are his. If the devil has
acted like thief it is time he was held
up and made to hand over.
Talk is cheap, and that is all some city.
home or foreign mission work gets from
some orthodox critics. The DEVILS dollar
viii go further and do more good than the
homes and Salvation Armies refuse the
money from men in saloons or women in
resorts because of its some, somewhere:
sometime faint? The question is not
Where did ii come from?" but What
good use can it be put top
The Congregational church is at lib
erty to condemn the financial methods Of
the Standard Oil company; but it has
not the right to deprive. the heather of
Mr.. Rockefeler's contribution. To be
any Standard Oil products because his
money helps swell the oil magnate's cof-
fers. I've burned his oil and gasoline,
and thank God l have to that very de-
gree contributed to the Chicago univer-
sity. and charities at home and abroad.
Mr.. Rockefeller has given much the poor
millions of America will get Gods credit
for.
If the Japanese had not used the cap
tured Russian guns and ammunition
against the enemy. they would have been
the worlds laughing stock How long
shall the children of their day and gener-
alton be wiser than the children of light?
Money in itself has no moral value. If
'lucre" or gain is filthy it is because
of its abuse, and not its use. Every dol
lar has three owners. God. the govern
me T and the man who possesses it.
dirty is when man selfishly spends
wealth on himself. idolatrously worships
the, golden calf, or serves mammon, not
1t is every mans duty to make money
enough to meet life's necessities. and
then instead of boarding or squandering
II, to be rich toward Cod in charity for
the unfortunates and even the unworthy.
The test of mans character is not SO
much how he made his money but how
he spends it. God accepts the CAPITALISTS
millions and the widows mites. The need
today is for large expenditure for spirit
nal necessities equal to the vast outlay
for pleasure and education
The Peoples church with its crowds
housed or turned away at the doors. does
not reach quarter of the people who
would be glad to come if there We're room
If Mr. Rockefeller or the brewers gam
biers and snorting element OF this city will
give me 800, 600 we will build tabernacle
where seven days in the week the needy
of all creeds classes and conditions of
society may find welcome to the rest
recreation and redemption they long for
and need.