Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-17
REOPENING OF THE ROCkE.
 TELLER BIBLE CLASS,

II Avenue Baptist church for the fall and winter. With this session the class will enter on the eleventh year of it's organization and the fourth year of Mir. Rockefellers term as it's leader
 The usual rumors were constantly circulated during the summer that Mir Rockefeller would not return to the class, but all these stories are silly and without foundation to any one who knows him in the least. Mr Rockefeller will never resign the lead ership of the class unless he is re- quested to do so by a majority of the members, or health or business shall make it obligatory upon him to do SO Since his return from Europe over a year ago, where he had gone for a rest to ward off a nervous breakdown, his health has been steadily improv- ing, and his stay at Beverly farms this summer has further strengthened him, so that he will return to the class with added vigOr and energy
 His first thought ill entering upon membership up to the thousand mark and make the class one of the largest in the United States. The member ship for some time has seesaWed be- tween 350 and 400 and much of it is comprised of young men who come from out of town to seek their for tunes in the city, While some re- main in the city permanently, large portion either through disappointment or calls elsewhere, soon leave, and thus the class is the loser. There are young men in the class from al most every state in theI nion some have come here to study medicine and law, others to work here One of them a young man from Nevada who is studying engineering at Columbia university, told me that the welcome given him, a total stranger, when he entered the class one Sunday morning soon after his arrival in the city. cured him of homesckness and gave him courage to remain and finish his three years of study.
 Mr. Rockefeller never tires 0, preaching to the young men on the desirability of socability and sincere friendship Any one coming to the class is met at the door by either Alr. TroXell, the president: Dr. Foote, the vice president, or one of the other Of ficerS. and receives a handshake and a welcome whose sincerity cannot be mistaken.
 He is ushered to a seat. introduced t0 the young men sitting next to him and after the session k led out into the adjoining reception room and in troduced to Mr Rockefeller. who spends some time after his class ia talking socially with the members To a stranger all this is a revelation in socability about him, and in conse- uaence the Y NJ. C. A. and the Rocke- feller Bible class are at once sought by strangers coming to the city from the country.
 The class was originally organized by nine young men. It included NIT. Troxel, who is now president; MT. Robert A. Shaw. the secretary, MT. George F. Tafel, Dr. E. M. Foote F. B. Hamilton, Dl. T. s. Southworth, J. s. Wilson. Dr. w. H. P. Faunce, now president of Brown university, and Charles F. Hughes, counsel for the insurance Investigating committee.
 Mr. Rockefeller receives many re- quests for assistance and is perfect ly aware that there are those who join the class merely for what they can get out of it, but his reading or human nature is such that he can easily pick the sincere from the lh- sincere. and those who come for mere lv selfish purposes seldom achleVe their ends. Mr Rockefeller assists a great many whom he thinks need H. and this he does quietly and secfe'iN'
 NIr. Rockefeller was early Ill HIS vouth taught the value of money. He has known what il is to work "l1h his hands. AS a boy he never had a large allowance of pocket money. The first money he ever earned was a 1eW cents from his father for putting up fence posts around the park ill CleVe- land, which Mir. Rockefeller owns ine instinct was strong in him. He was not content to let the money lie idle. Even as a child the accumulat- ine instinct was strong in lhm. lie was anxious to have his father invest the money he had from time to tune deposited, and the spirit pleased the old gentleman The money was ln- vested and the amount the young man ultimately received from 1t was Slo'-