The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
RockefcIIer's English Preacher.

The public is curious to see what will happen when the Rev, Charles F. Aked of Liverpool, England,- begins his ca- reer in this city as the pastor Of the
 Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. better known as the Rockefeller Church. The Rockefellers. father and son, control the affairs of the congregation. John D. always attends the services there when he is fin the city and John D.. Jr.. day aftern66n.
 There Is more than. the. usual interest in the coming Of Mr. 'Aked tne prefers not to be called "Dr." of the Reg.) be- Ncause he Is supposed to be against about everything that John D. stands for. This led some of th4 members of his congregation in Liverpool to accuse him of pocketing his principles for monetary consideration in accepting the call to the Fifth Avenue Church
 From MT. Aked's record one would
 judge that he is a fighting parson. He started in life as a. clerk in coal mer-
 chants ofiichs .s Then shS became a sher-
 frs officer. A strange Story is told of
 how he came to enter the ministry Growing tired of life as under sheriff, when he was IS years old. he decided to emigrate to New Zealand.
 The ship was picked, even the berth was fixed and Aked returned to Derby to get the money to pay for 1t. Be- fore sending the deposit to the ship ping office, he called upon the minis- ter of whose church he was member, to ask him for letters of@introductlon to take to New Zealand.
 When he entered the minister's house he hae no idea of anything beyond go- ing to try his luck in New Zealand. When he left 1t the whole direction Of his life was altered. His converVation with his pastor resulted In his going straight back to his native town or Nottingham and joining the University College there with view to entering the ministry.
 MT. Aked's attitude in the Boer war is a fair example of his fighting spirit. When the war began he was the nrst and the most fervid of the producers. Then came that black week when the crushing defeat met the British arms from one side Of South Africa to the other. tMr. Aked still preached the iniouity of Great Britain, and popular feeling began to run high.
 On the Sunday of the disastrous week just referred to he had announced a lecture in the chapel dealing with the South African war, and the subject was in way that brought the popular rage to head. The police ex- pected what would happen and had 200 men at the chapel.
 After the service Mir. Aked, his wife, and a deacon got away1safely in a cab by side entrance But the mob, which numbered 1000, soon got on the track. Before the cab reached the minister's house it was overtaken and partially It managed, however, to reach the houses
 MT. Aked sprang out. fought his way to the door. opened it and fought his way back to help his wife from the cab to the house. One man stood in the way of a woman. MT. Aked dealt with him in the fashion he has applied to all his fights. He did not speak to him. he did not walt to see if the man would really offer v'olence--he was in the way and Mir Aked knocked him down like a log. Wien. the minieter md his wife were safe inside the mob amused themselves by wrecking the house from without, not leaving a pane of glass uubroken. gsFAur five weeks th's sce0e was repe7t- ed $veeSA Sunday For five weeks Mir A AiseA' denounced his owo country un- des.E palice protection. Three hundred politci guarded the house and chapel l apdi atl the way between the two, back | ana forth. Mir. Aked was handed from l osie plain clothes man to another.