The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
DIR. AKED, EX-"ROCKEFTLLER
 PASTOR,'' IS 4S TO-DAY.

Dr. Charles Frederic Aked, who came to America five years ago to fill the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York, and who was given almost as much free publicity as if he had killed a prom inent architect on a roof garden, be- cause of tl1e fact that the cengrega- tion to which he. was called as the one favored by John D. Rockefeller. and who later resigned the pastorate because the wealthy members refused to come across" sufficiently to en- able him to carry out the great pro jects for human veal he had con- templated, and went to San Francis Co, where-but this sentence is be- coming as involvred as one fom Hen nery James. The point is that Dr. Aked is forty-eight years old to-day.
 Dr. Aked left New York for mum Der of reasons. In the first place. as previously hinted, he was disap- pointed in the contents of the collec- ton plate. When he left England and more specifically. Liverpool, tha pastor of the big and fourishing Pembroke Chapel, he naturally ex- pected that he would find a larger and more important field of labor awaiting him in the vineyards of Fifth avenue. He had ambitious plans which included the erection of a ing the Gospel to the heathen of the East Side, Harlem, Hoboken and even widest Brooklyn. These plans did not materialize, because of a lack or filthy lucre, and when he received call from a San Francisco church, Dr. Aked surprised his flock by frankly telling them that he could not remain with the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church because the ministry was ''too meager." He explained that when he came to New York from England it was with the confident expectation that the congregation was ready and ripe for vast enterprises, but that his experience had shown that these schemes were only such stuff as dreams are made of" Wherefore he had determined to quit.
 Another source of dissatisfaction to the English clergyman was that he was constantly referred to as "Rocke- feller's pastor" much as one would refer to Crusoe's man Friday. Be- ing a man of independent spirit, this finally got on Dr. Aked,s nerves. There was also an impression abroad in the land that Dr. Aked had been appointed MT. Rockefeller's alrnoner. and that he had millions of dollars at his disposal to dispense in aims. Dr. Aked repeatedly denied that such a relation existed between him and the oil magnate, and the denial was widely published in the public prints, but the truth never caught up with the lie. Beggars of all kinds and degres from those who sought the price of a square meal to those who would be contented with nothing less than 3 few millions, swartned about the Aked house and made the life of the clergyman miserable. Several secretaries had to be employed to at- tend to the mail which consisted largely of begging letters from all parts of the world. A majority of the letters were from obscure church es which wanted money to lift mort Gages, erect new edifices or pay the salaries of pastors, but each mail also brought scores of epistles from those who wanted money for purely person. al purposes.
 Dr. Akeds was born in Nottingham, England, Aug. 27, 1864, and was or dained to the Baptist ministry at the age of twenty-two. He first visited America in 1893, and from that year until he accepted the pastorate of the New York churuch he made annual lecture and preaching tours of the United States and Canada.