The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-22
DIR. AKED ON
 IMMIGRATION Is America's Greatest
 Problem. FIRST SERMON IN NEW YORK British Divine Takes Up Work in
 Metropolis. Say. Hordes That Are Pouring Into the Country VIII Threaten Republic
 If Christ Isn't Taught
'IRST SERMON IN NEW YORK

New York, April 21-Rev. Charles F. Aked. for sixteen years pastor of the second largest Protestant church in England. where he gained a wide repu- tation by successful campaigns against all forms of vice, today formally trans ferred his activities to America and as- sumed the pastorate of the Fifth Ave- nue Baptist Church of this city.
 Dr. Aked's labors in Liverpool, where he was pastor of Pembroke Chapel. drow the attention not only of all Eng land. but even of Europe. because of his extraordinary ability as a preacher.
 Dr. Aked first preached at the Fifth Avenue Church early last winter and left a deep impression upon the mem- bers. Subsequently a call went out to him to serve as pastor of this inf1uen- tial New York church--a call which received the earnest endorsement of John D. Rockefeller. who Is one of the pillars of the Firth Avenue congrs- gation.
 The new minister's sermon today was in the nature of a message to the Amer ican people. Dr. Aked declared he was here to preach to all men-to take his place with the leaders of all the churches, and to summon all his ener- gies to battle with the problems that trouble American life. He could not. he delcared, point narrow church. His
  unfettered and unbounded.
 Young Rockefeller Present.
 Prominent among those present today was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., director of the churct's Bible class Mir. Rocke- feller Sr.. was not present at the morn ing services. but participated in the evening ceremonies.
 In the course of his sermon. Dr. Aked said:
 Tt Is not for me to lecture you about American conditions. It Is for me to learn from you what they are. But the thoughtiess onlooker from the old world who has ever read a page of history knows that in the rush to your shores of millions of the European people. you are confronted by a prob lem such as no nation has ever yet had to solve since history began. read the figures which set this prob lem vfsibly before the eyes of men and am lost in amazement Then as the facts behind the figures begin to take shape and substance. my brain reels before that immensity.
 You know what races of the old world are pouring themselves into yopr land. You know what colonies of people. separated from yourselves by thought. by feeling, by tradition. by religion. by language. are estab- Iished within your city boundaries and in all the great cities of the land. This is an ethnic question, race question. It Is a question as to what kind of peo- pie the American people is to become. It is question whether the primal American stock Is to be vitiated by the ter-permeation of an inferior race. It Is something still nearer; 1t Is na- tional question of political equilibrium. of the stability of order and the sov- ereignty of law.
 The quickest way. the most eco- nomical and the most permanent way of making these people good Americans and good patriots is to make them good Christians. To you and me who know, and to men and women like us. is entrusted this solemn responsible ity and the splendid privilege. We have to change the mob into a com monwealth; the proletariat into a de- mocracq And these untrained. undis- cipIined. politically dangerous millions we have to win for Christ"