New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-13
Social" Pastor, Out of
Jail, ReneWs Attack on
John d. Rockefeller, Jr.

Should the withdrawal of United
States troops from Colorado result in
more bloodshed in the mining districts
the Rev. Dr. Bouck White, pastor Of
the Church of the Social Revolution
and fresh from term in Jail in Long
Island City, asserts he will once more
break up the service Of the Fifth Ave
nue. Baptist Church, OF which John ID.
Rockefeller is n member.
He and the other members of his
church, undaunted by the six months
sentence which he finished yesterday,
admit they will demand of the pastor,
DR.. Cornelius Woelfkin. whether
Christ taught the immortality OF being
rich. They say they will make this
demand at the Sunday morning service.
Tonight, as the first step toward re-
opening his attack on Rockefeller
whom he holds responsible for the
troubles in Colorado, White will adj
dress a meeting at Carnegie Hall. lie
has issued an open challenge to Dr.
Woelfkin, who obtained his election
from the church last spring; TO Mag
istrate Campbell, who sentenced him,
and TO Justice Malone, who rejected
his appeal, daring them to answer the
questions and attack which he plans
TO direct against them at this meeting
"They haven't got the nerve to
come" he said when seen at his
church, 80 East 25th st. They're not
men enough to do it. | challenge them
to come; and if they don't we are
going to dig them like rats out OF
their holes.
1--WE believe in spiritual dynamite. |
believe the recent explosions In Cain,
Ollie churches were due TO the refusal
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church to
meet US in a Christian spirit, and the
sin and the curse Of them lie at their
door. When spiritual forces abdicate,
the solution Of these things is left to
material forces. Only spiritual forces
can avert the use of force, but at any
rate If these men come they Will get
more courteous treatment from us, at
our meeting, than we got at theirs
DR.. White added that he had been
told he was in danger, but said he did
not expect any trouble.
al shall tell our side of the case"
he said, land then give these men a
chance TO get up and defend them
selves. We feel that, far from being
closed, this issue is more important
and farreaching than ever. If the
action of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church were to go down in history as
the verdict of the Christian Church,
il would be one of the most damning
blows that have ever been delivered at
Christianity and Professionalism.
"The last six months have been edu-
cative at Rockefeller's church. They
have searched their hearts. DR.. Woelf-
kin burst into tears when DR.. Percy
Stickney Grant, DR.. Hall and Rabbi
Wise went to him as a protest commit
tee in this matter"
Here DR.. White asked Edward Ames
and Charles c. Morrison, who were ar
rested with him, whether they dared
to go to Rockefeller's church in case
there was "need" for it.
"All that men dare / dare" said
Ames.
81 certainly do" said Morrison.
"The social crisis" said White, will
come to head this winter. We are
moving into the most revolutionary
times that New York City or our civil
ization have ever seen"
Whites exit from the Queens
County Jail was more of a triumph
than humiliation, according TO those
of his followers, some fifty in number,
who had gathered about the little
white building to welcome him. Sol
Feldman, who had been acting pastor
during Whites absence, ran the demon
strstion, and the reverend pastor was
finally whirled away in a taXicab,
aflaUnt with flags and streamers.
White said he had converted his
jailers and even the warden during his
stay in Jail and that they would usher
at to-night's meeting. He had been
II.
said. because the conditions there were
we're so bad the authorities feared he
would see enough to write a book about
than