Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-24
ANECDOTES OF DR.. AkED.

ANEGDUIES VI Oh. AkEU.
famous Britisher Who Will Preach To-
John D. Rockefeller.
Rev. DR.. Charles Frederick Aked,
former pastor at Pembroke chapel In
/ liverpool, who recently arrived in
New York to take up his duties as
pastor OF the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church, is an athletic type Of man, and
his manner reminds many of President
Roosevelt. It is told Of DR.. Aked that
when he was about to take the pas.
torate Of Pembroke chapel, Liverpool,
he went fishing at o'clock one morn
Ing and, finding suit Of clothes on
the bank, jumped in to save a sup
posed drowning man. He brought out
the mans dead body. AS a result Of
the incident Pembroke chapel on the
morning that DR.. Aked preached his
first sermon was crowded to the doors.
People wanted to see a preacher who
had gone fishing at 8 a. m. and who
had jumped into the water to save a
man.
When interviewed somehow the con-
yersation turned first to John D. Rock
efeller, and DR.. Aked rather resented
the idea that he was to be the pastor
OF " Rockefelier's church. 2
Il know nothing Of Mr.. Rockefel-
ler," he said, aand 1t is rather hard to
call the Fifth Avenue Baptist church
Rockefeller's church. He Is only pew
holder in the church" .:588
Here some one managed to get in
question as to tainted money, and DR..
Aked frightened up.
II am not talking now on tainted
money" he said. 'But perhaps you
feel like the negro. The story goes
that two negroes were talking when
one Of them asked whether he had
heard that certain rich man had
tainted money.
What is this tainted money! ask
ed one. 49, ..--s@.-5.g5-
q What said the other, .ain't you
heard what dat Isl? Well, it faint
yours and 1t faint mine. ~ =
When the Transvaal war crisis be-
gan to approach, "in season and out Of
season, to use his own words, ..Dr.
,Aked denounced Chamb eriain,s policy.
When the war began he was the first
and most fervid of the pro Beers On
80 Sunday, after a. disastrous week to
British arms; The announced % lecture
in Pembroke chapel dealing with the
South African war. The police expect
ed what would happen and had 200
men at the chapel.
After the service DR.. Aked, his wife
and a deacon got away safely In cab
by side entrance. Before the cab
reached the minister's house 1t was,
overtaken BY the mob and partially
wrecked. It managed, however, to
reach the house. Fsa3t$s III d
~ Dr. Aked sprang out, fought his way
to the door, opened 1t and fought his
way back to help his wife from the
cab to the house. N One man stood in
This way. DR.. sAked dealt with him In
the fashion he has applied to all his
fights. He did not speak to him, he
did not wait to see IL the man would
really offer violence he was in the
way. and DR.. Aked knocked him down
like, q log. .St q s, .s s;s # 5
! When the minister and his wife were
ilsafe inside the mob amused itself by
wrecking the house from without, not
leaving pane Of glass unbroken. For
/ five weeks this scene was repeated
every Sunday For five weeks DR..
Aked denounced bis own country under
police protection. Three hundred POI
lice guarded the house and chapel, and
all the way between the two, back and
forth, DR.. Aked was handed from plain
clothes man to plain clothes man.