Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
SUBURBAN PASTOR.
PLEASES SCHWAB
Rev. w. Warren Giles Tells
How He Entertains Mil
IionaireS With Speeches.
BY ROGER BATCHELDER.

BY ROGER BATCHELDER.
EAST ORANGE. N. j., July IL
(N.ANA).-"I'm just a simple sub
urban minister" said the Rev. w. War
rem Giles, pastor of the First Re-
formed Church here.
In a pleasant home shaded by many
trees, and surrounded by commuters
lawn, the man who was called recently
to tell the executives OF the United
States Steel Corporation about the cor
relation of religion, life and business,
spoke quietly.
He had come from his study. with
its great shelves of books, and was be-
wildered that his forceful talks at
New York banquets had won him fame.
The fact the steel magnates had in
vited him to speak at their banquet
had not made tremendous impress
sion on him and he was at loss to
understand why he was in constant
demand at business mems dinners.
50 Years in Ministry.
DR.. Giles, about six feet tall, with
white hair and smile that at nrSt
seemed to proclaim him as the old
time pastor" has been in the ministry
almost so years. He was born in the
Chelsea section of New York shortly
before the Civil War, and after at
tending the Tarrytown Military 1nsti-
tute. ne went to the Pennsylvania Mill
tary College.
IT got my college degree from the
College of the City of New York" he
asserted. II had to work so hard to
keep up that there was no trouble IN
getting through the Union Theological
Seminary. 1t had been good training"
DR.. Giles talks that way, and therein
must lie the reason for his general
popularity among "conventioners."
81 went over to Newark one evening"
he related, ito make a talk before bust
ness men on the Constitution of the
United States. Instead of reading or
! quoting from religious authorities, I
thought the best idea would be to tell
the gentlemen about the country, and
do it in what you might call hard
boiled fashion,
Cites Fathers Scheme.
ct told them about the big business
man whose son was going to Europe
| on a Cunarder Instead OF giving him
copy of the Holy Writ, which the
son wouldn't have read, he left a copy
of the Constitution in his cabin, and
told the boy to look 1t over.
He was a good judge OF character,
and he asked the boy to learn the IS
| things that Congress could do legally.
The scheme worked, and the boy is
today q great success in business, and
in religious life be has maintained the
balance that I am trying to urge.
You must not think am ever ire
ligious because I place SO much stress
on another topic" insisted DR.. Giles.
But I maintain that business has
much in common with the Holy gospel
and the good of the United States, and
that the three have something in COM
mon.
"The men responsible for the birth
and the continuance of this country
we're young men. Their average age
was 40, much less than that of the
leaders of today, when men OF 40
should be leaders"
Quotes Words of Pope.
Gentlemen Of SO and over blinked
when they heard this announcement
over the banquet tables from the pas
| tor. Some one older than themselves
was telling them they were getting
old, suggesting indirectly they should
get their sons ready to rule.
Benedict, the Fifteenth" DR.. Giles
| hurled at the astonished business men,
said there were five modern plaques
| The unprecedented challenge to au-
| thority, the unprecedented hatred be-
| tween man and man, the abnormal
aversion to work, the excessive thirst
for pleasure and the complete ma
| FERTILIZATION of life, expressed in the
reputation of all spiritual ideals.
THE business men gulped and took
| It," said DR.. Giles.
"'He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear quoted, pointing out % thrones
had fallen in the mire Of post-benum
| upheavals.
"It happened my after-dinner speech
| was broadcast, and the next thing !
| knew I was asked by James A. Farrell
Of the United States Steel Corporation
to talk at its dinner. Mr.. Farrell in
vited me to speak at the Commodore
Hotel, and I spoke straight from the
shoulder, just as I would in my own
pulpit. Charles M. Schwab liked my
talk and said so, and 1 had letters
from other directors later.
Like Humor In Religion.
"TheSe business men do not want
| religion handed out on a platter like
the next course at the banquet They
| like little humor, and that takes all
| the hurt out of things that one might
say. 1t makes them laugh, even II
| they laugh to hide their inner feelings
| II have tried to make these great
men laugh when I tell them there is
a need Of an absolute and heartfelt
return to the principles of the Con-
stitution, and 1 tell every one that
nothing permanent can be gained
through Communism and Fascism.
Education helps, despite the theory
Of the self-made man. OF the signers
of the Constitution, % were lawyers.
Twenty-four of the 80 were college
graduates, and that is why our Con-
stitution was good one"
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