The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-22
NEW PASTOR OF
THE BOOKSELLERS
Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked, Able
English Minister, Begins Min
istry in New York.
LOOKS LIKE ROOSEVELT
az pa
Audience at Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist Not Slow to Note
- Resemblance.
LOOKS LIKE ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK, April 21.-Rev. Charles F.
Aked, for sixteen years the powerful and
popular pastor of the second largest FRO
testant church In England, where he
gained a wide reputation by successful!
campaigns for civic decency and against
all forms Of vice, to-day formally trans
ferred his activities to America and as
sumed the pastorate OF the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church, of this city. His sermon
to day was in the nature OF a message
to the American people. He 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 energies
to battle with the problems that trouble
American life. He could not. he de-
clared. join a narrow church. His is to
be the ministry of econciliation-unfet-
tered and unbounded.
Enthusiasm and absolute sincerity, the
dominating trait of Or. Akeds service,
We're reflected in tho audience which
pretentious edfce which stands close to
Fifth Avenue, on Forty-slxth Street,
brought -sut a large crowd. John D.
Rockefeller director Of the church Bible
class, was present. Mr.. Rockefeller, Sr.,
was not present at the morning but par
ticipated in the evening service.
Resembles President.
Dr. Aked proved an unconventional
preacher In stature, the comparative
~ young Englishman is we'll above the
middle height, with n square pair OF
shoulders and an athletic frame. He
has a strikingly strong face, and his
audience was not slow to perceive a
resemblance to President Roosevelt. He
chose his text from II. Corinthians v.
IL: And hath given to us the ministry
of reconciliation"
io-day l enter upon my ministry
10 your great church." began DR.. Aked.
and If it no the Will of God, upon a
larger ministry In the city and in the
nation. have come In the honest
to be done in your land.
The sin Of doing nothing Is tho
deadl1est OF the seven deadly sins" he
continued. 1--WE are here to save men.
Men cannot be saved alone: the saved
man must save men; the city must be
saved; the State must be saved: the
nation must be saved. We are here tn
claim the world of politics as Christ,s
world; cleanse political life Of It's self
seeking, Its practical atheism and cor
ruption, and change our human society
into kingdom of God.
ut Is not for me to lecture you about
American conditions. 1t Is for me tc
learn from you what they are. But the
most thoughtless onlooker from the old
world who has ever read a page Of his.
tory knows that. in the rush to your
shores OF millions upon millions of the
European peoples, you are confronted by
q problem such as no man has ever YET
had to solve since history began. I read
the figures which set this problem visi.
bly, before the eyes of men. and I an
lost in amazement. Then, as the facts
behind the figures begin to take shap,
and substance. my brain reels before that
| immensely.
| THE quickest way, the most .economi.
cal and tho most permanent way of max.
Ing these people good Americans and goo(
| patriots Is 70 make them good Chris.
tinns. TO you and me, who know, ant
| to men and women like us. is intruste(
this solemn responsibility and tho splen
did privilege, We have to change til,
mob into a comon wealth. tho proletaria
into a democracy. And these unframed
undiseipllned. politically dangerous mil
lions we have to win for Christi