Life — October 29, 1903 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE* people. Think to what price the poor man’s kerosene might have been raised during the c famine, had the avarice of the natural man not been restrained by the fear of the Lord. Think what might have been, had some grasping, cold- hearted man of the world been at the head of the Standard Oil Company all these years, instead of such a shining mplar of the teaching of the Nazarene as John D. Rockefeller, It is well for him to mention his religion 403 sUOW ME MY TRUE LOVE To-N10nT. J. D. Rockefeller’s Religion. CLEVELAND, Oct. 5.—At the close of the service at the Euelld Avenue Baptist Church Sunday John D, Rockefeller, approaching the pastor, Dr. Eaton, said: © You know, I was born in Ri ford, N.Y, There was no religion tn Richford. When I was elgnt years old I moved toa town —\% x es made up largely of God-fearing people, That was a revelation to me. [ shudder to think what 1 Sat hs T should have been if I had remained In Richford all =< my lite "The New York Times. Nance Z Instead of thanking God. = ous self-congratulatory individual, that he was not like unto a certain publican, our latter-day saint shudders to think what he might have been, had he remained in the God-forsaken town of Richford all his lif Rich- ford must in truth be an awful place. A locality from which John D, Rockefeller had to flee, as Bunyan from the City of Destruction, to save his soul, would seem fit for the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. The rest of us shudder to think what Mr. Rockefeller might have done had he gone on, unrestrained by the fear of God, to destroy competitors, monopolize necessaries, fight courts and legislatures, and provide for John D. Rockefeller. In such case, would anything have been left for the genius of J. Pierpont Morgan, or would Russell Sage, even, have been able to hold on toa pittance for his old age? Let us be thankfal that John D. met these God-fearing s did a previ- occasionally, lest we forget. Temperance. T ‘* [T ts 8 question well worth considering whether the continued presence of alcohol in the world is not more conducive in te long run to the evolutto {ts abolition “—Dr. Atel. of an eMictent self-ccntrol than would be Of course, an efficient self-control is not what we are after. What could be more prejudicial to the activities of the W. C. ‘T. U. than an efficient self-control? The drop too much is « beguile ourselves with the thought that drops are the evolution of an efficient self-control ? No, no. On the contrary, we shall move for the repe the radical amendn except for which there would be no such thin The dangerous doctrine that the Lord kne when He made the world was lor I RIGG: Sunday Griccs: papers. 1, of the laws of gravity at leads to intemperance. Shall we nducive to , or at least id molecularity. as drops. ¢ what He was doing I don't see how Jagson can wade through the Oh, well, you know he’s color-blind. A Letter Answered. ‘00 THE EDITOR OF LIFE Dear Si nti” and wholly provin you will make allowances for the rather in, half an , therefore sTama personal questions which Iam going to ask and which I hope you will answer in a direct way : 1. Would you abo If a member of your fan taken seriously ill, would you call Christian in, or neither? jentist, or a “regular” phy- Do you publish your imitations of the Society Columns because you consider the reiteration humorous, or because of pr: tical value to those mentioned or left out? 4. Granted that any misconduct of the vernment should be vigorous is it helpful to the nation to unceasingly disparage the ability and honor of Congress in terms which are clever, but which would be slanderous if applied to individuals? Of course I have no right to ask for answers, but, as an interested follower of your paper, I hope to receive them. Sincerely yours, Judson Greely. 1. We would make it optional 2 Both, and the Coroner, 3. From a stern sense of duty. 4. Certainly. comicbooks.com