Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-29
Tainted Money.

asking the trustees to return a gift of
$4,000 which the college received
about eight years ago from Mr.. Rookie
Teller would indicate that the old
time controversy about tainted money
is still unsettled.
Believing the Bible to be true. and
that sinful life may be purified by
the Christ power cooperating with
sincere desire to be and do better
deeds each day that remains in which
to perform them-is it harder to dis
infect money than it is to cleanse
soiled Merchandising the vision of
Peter, and the voice from heaven
commanding What God hath cleans
ed, that call not thou common
Aside from any reference to Mr..
Rockefeller. did not He who for
giveth all THINE iniquities" say "A
broken and a contrite heart | will not
despise ?" And did not Christ say
WHATSOEVER eometh to me | will in
no wise east out? Does not any Of
purpose signify heavenward aspir-
ing or noble spirit. and purify both the
gift and the giver so far as each par
ticular gift is concerned? How can
one tell who is eontrite and who is
not contrite; whom God despises or
does not despise? Are any so perfect
as to be justified in despising others.
knowing that their own course is not
yet run? Christ said to those who
wished to learn of God. and to teach
others what they had learned: He
that despiseth you despiseth me; and
he that despiseth me despiseth Him
that sent me- And the scornful are
not without censure from Him.
Would it not be far more sensible
to redeem so-calIed tainted money
by putting it to uses that will glorify
God. thus eliminating from it's future
career every possible opportunity of
TAINTING both giver and receiver
by being put to unworthy uses that
would harm those whom God made in
his image?
Referring to Mr.. Rockefeller's gift,
there is something unique in con-
science which has lain dormant eight
years. and which. casting aside all
considerations of gratitude to him for
past benefits derived from that gift.
meditates upon returning as worthless
1--WE should say worn ouD, and ac-
companied by sneers and assumed
superiority, gift which could not
have been bestowed in any other
spirit than an intent to render happy.
useful and intelligent the girls who
might enter Wellesley's doors. one
might be forgiven for suggesting that
the sum could be advantageously en-
ployed In providing either a course in
Bible study, or in etiquette. or even in
the study of civics, for the petition
ers. until they should discover what
they. know to be more fitting use
for the money than returning it to the
giver as tainted"
Few coins, We're they to relate their
full history. could prove their entire
innocence of faint of any kind. Yet
who refuses to accept, as clean. money
the history of which is withheld from
their ken? If all tainted" money,
be the faint from whatever source.
were used in an endeavor to remove
taints and blights from human souls,
by purifying the desires of each
tainted" one until each achieved a
purer, better life here on earth, the
transmitting of base metals into gold.
| OF which the ancient alchemists
dreamed but never accomplished,
could be surpassed even by these
Wellesley girls. by using the right
| motive power-that is. the. power
| which Christ supplies. when used ae-
Icording to His directions, for the pur
poses which He outlined in His teach
ings,