The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-08
DR.. AKBD TO QUIT APRIL 9
RESIGNATION GIVEN N AND a..
CEPTED nv THE TRUSTEES.

Invitation Ia san Francisco Not Vet Nc.
cepted and There Il an lntimation
vhat Il May Not BE statement 10 ne
Made 10 Congregation Next sunday.
DR.. Charles F. Aked resigned yesterday
A. pastor OF the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church. His resignation was given orally
to the trustees at special meeting Of the
board in the offices OF Blair 4 Co. "a Broad
street. II was accepted to take effect
on April Q. the fourth anniversary Of his
coming here. The pastor will formally
announce his resignation on Sunday.
The call from the First Congregational
Church OF San Francisco for DR.. Aked
TO 60 there has not been accepted. and
inquirers who asked whether he would
accept it were referred to the doctors
remarks last Sunday He had nothing
further to give out now. his secretary
said. Il have not been able TO find any
sufficient reason why I should not accept
the San Francisco invitation was his
Sunday statement.
Yesterdays trustees meeting was an
adjournment Of three hours conference
held on Monday afternoon, but this time
1t did not last 80 long. Some time after
its conclusion Chairman Edgar l.. Marston
handed out this to the reporters:
AT the adjourned meeting OF the board
OF trustees Of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church held to-day DR.. Aked verbally
presented his resignation as pastor Of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and stated
that he would formally announce the
same to the church on Sunday morning
next. After conference IL was mutually
agreed by the trustees and the doctor
that said resignation should take effect
at Of the end OF the fourth year Of his
pastorate with the church. which would
be April 0. 1911
Despite DR.. Aked's Sunday suggestion
that we are not compelled to act hastily;
we can wait . week or even two weeks.
pondering the situation" the special
meeting which resulted in the pastor q
resignation was called Immediately after
the morning service. Monday and yes
terday DR.. Aked conferred with the
trustees and about the first agreement
was reached that has existed between the
doctor and his trustees since he announced
from the pulpit his dissatisfaction with
Affairs at the Fifth Avenue church and
said he should not caro- to contemplate
q permanent ministry there under those
conditions.
Some Of the trustees have intimated
that DR.. Aked may have been uninten-
tionally misled when he was brought to
New York TO be their pastor. He wanted
q big church and expected them to build
1t. but could not agree either with the
plans or the locations proposed.
DR.. Aked was born in Nottiu CHAM,
England: ~ 1854 and was ordained to the
Baptist ministry in 1899 He was pastor
OF the Pembroke Chapel in Liverpool
when he Was selected to f'il the vacancy
in the Fifth Avenue Baptist pulpit here.
He came here in 1907 and has since figured
largely in the papers Ten days after the
announcement OF his dissatisfaction with
conditions in the church. on April 20. 1919.
the trustees published u plan for new
church building.
Contributions were solicited and archi-
tects were employed. but DR.. Aked and the
trustees could not agree on the plans. and
on October q last it was decided to give
up the notion Of a big church for the
present and pay back the $500. 600 to the
contributors II was then suggested that
the matter Ike put of for two years The
architects fees amounted TO about S2O. .OOO