The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-15
TO AMERICA
HERE BY PROMINENT
NEW YORK DIVINE.
DR.. Aked. Rockefeller's New York Pas
tor, an Englishman, but Pre-
fers This Side.

tor, an Englishman, but Pre-
fers This Side.
The Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked, known as
"Rockefeller's New York Pastor, because
Of the fact that he Is the pastor Of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. New York
city, where the oil magnate attends. spoke
in the First Presbyterian Church, this city,
last night. He declared that America was
giving Englishmen inspiration in their fight
against the alignment of the church and
State, and in behalf Of popular education
has been the source of the temperance agi-
tation in England, and has supplied the
majority OF the religious thought to the
sister nation.
DR.. Aked addressed the Presbyterian
Union On 1.-THE Service of America to the
Living Thought of England" A thousand
persons heard him. DIR. Aked was
pastor of the leading Baptist Church in
Liverpool until he accepted a call from the
New YORK congregation several months
ago. He is well yersed in all shades
of English life and thought, and does not
hesitate TO express a preference for Amer
lea, having already declared his intention
of becoming a naturalized citizen of this
country
The speaker described his embarrassing
position Introductory to his address. He
stated that he knew not whether to ex-
press himself as an Englishman or an
American. having been the former in law.
as well as fact, until a short time ago, ana
being now in the Intermediate stage be-
tween taking out his papers and sub
scribing to the oath toward becoming the
latter. He met the problem philosophical
ly and selected his pronouns as best fitted
his theme. He passed over rapidly the me-
chanical contributions of this country to
England, describing the average London
business man as arising from his New
England sheets, dressing in American
clothes, carrying him through the day, at
no time in which no is not In touch with
something that this has given to the
mother country.
when II comes to educational matters
said DIR. Aked, 1--WE first think OF the
universities, and no Englishman can speak
except with pride of his country's higher
Institutions of learning. In their way there
is nothing better than oxford and Cam
bridge. each with its thousand years Of
history and prestige behind It. As TO puo-
lie schools there is no resemblance. The
so-called public schools of England are
those like Rugby and Eaton, instituted FOR
the benefit of the poor. but representing
one of the colossal robberies of the age,
having been ~monopolized by the rich, Al
the beginning Of the nineteenth century,
popular education was in England what
snakes are in Ireland-there was none. n
statement of the prevalence of i~lliteracy
in that day would be appalling and discred-
table,
DR.. Aked told of the first agitation for
popular education, which was started by
Joseph Lancaster. The established church
opposed 1t and the House Of Lords, acting
on the advice and with the support of the
higher clergy. defeated the movement. The
clergy argued, he said, that teaching out
side of regulation by the church would pro-
duce a populace that would threaten the
church's existence. In 1907 the church took
the matter up by opening schools under its
own supervision, TO which government aid.
bordering on complete support, has since
been given.
In religion, the speaker said that Amer
lea is contributing at least one-half of the
religious thought in England. He referred
TO Henry Ward Beecher as the most in
f~luential force of the age in British re-
ligious life. second only to that of John
Whittier. The latter, lie declared, through
his hymns had exerted a greater influence
there than in America. More American
songs, he said, we're used in England than
In this country.
All AAbia1ai ARd1A var paw ~ Ait1 w II
of Moody, the evangelist. Had he first
given John Drummond to England as he
did to Scotland, said the minister. Moody's
| name would have gone down with the i'm
mortals.
Henry Drummond's influence on young
men was tremendous" he said. when a
preacher learns that a young mans re-
ligion is not that of his maiden aunt, Of
either sex, there will be more people in
! Tho n0nnrpUatipn vbn do NOT WEAR hats
Drummond learned this. He could also
blend with perfect Christian ideals The
most far-reaching developments of God.
A man who would deny Henry Drum
mond's Christianity would be classed as a
fool, yet he accepted all the evolutionary
theories of Darwin.
Referring to a movement inspired by
the absence of the alignment of church and
state in America, as he put it, the clergy
man said
! "You can't elevate a church 10 temporal
control or favor without doing injury to
the church itself, and it is only when the
Episcopal Church is released from its
thraldom that it will begin its mighty work.
When that day comes it will be largely
through the influence eXerted by this
country
Dr.. Aked is an outright prohibitionist,
which he said was entirely unknown
in his native land. There the people
have no Fright to pass on any ques-
tion affecting the sale of liquor, all being
governed by officials named by the crown.
No living Englisnman,' he declared,
"has ever given a vote ON license or no
license. h saloon is universal and there
is no Sunday closing"
II was announced that DIR. William II.
P. Faunce. president OF Brown University,
would address the union next month on
The Function Of Laymen In the Modern