Show WOULD REFUSE OIL KINGS GiFT Protestants Held a Secret Meeting in inI I Boston Yesterday Y EXCITEMENT IS GROWING LETTER LEfTER OF PRESIDENT TUCKER OF DARTMOUTH D OSTON March 3 Despite pit the theD BOSTON B D fact fat that t th prudential commit committee tee tec of the American board bord of f commissioners for fOI foreign n missions has had I radically ll decided to accept ae pt the sift gift ift of ot from John D Rockefeller I to o further the th work of or the tb board a u ommittee representing ting the Congregational COir Congregational at clergymen of Boston and kIn vicin vicinity ity It who are opposed to the acceptance a I of the lift gift met today and amid decided to Continue the tite protest protect prot t It was agreed a Iet 1 by b the members of the committee that thata a wide expression of or opinion on the question was as desirable and for fot this purpose a committee was appointed to submit the facts fact and documents in the matter mutter to the Congregational ministers of the th country The Time prudential corn com committee mittel will not take final action on m the he acceptance of Mr Rockefellers gift Ift for or two weeks and it IB is the intention of the protesting linh committee c to learn if f possible the general hc n feel f feeling ins the clergymen of or the denomination meeting which was private was vas attended by fifteen members of the committee Tonight Toni ht the following statement regarding the lie t proceedings dings was war issued by Rev REY Herbert Herbrt VV W Glea Gleason son soil secretary of the IJ com corn committee committee Broad Question Raised The committee considered the reply lelly of the prudential committee to the protest and were a unit in the con eon conviction that this reply relly raises rai a still stillmore more nore fundamental fun and serious issue namely that the prudential commit committee tee disclaims di daims all moral responsibility re for discrimination as aB to the sources front from fro III which they the receive money for Christian work For this reason it IL seemed to the committee all an the more Inor necessary neef story to maintain m the th protest Therefore since the tIme prudential com committee have deferred action for two weeks in order that as wide an Hn expression ion of opinion as a possible I might be made upon the i u a committee was appointed to submit the thc facts and uld documents in the matter to the Con Congregational Jr ministers Inini of the country This committee was instructed to con confer confor 00 for fer with the time prudential committee and endeavor to secure if their cooperation in this action Dr Tuckers Letter Dr Washington Gladden of Column Colum Columbus bus bu 0 O and President Tucker of Dart Dartmouth mouth th college were in communication with the th committee ec by hy telegram tele m slid Hud HudI I I letter President Tucker wrote in part NUt m as follows In regard to 10 the thC general en ral position ilion taken by bp the defenders of or time the Ut action mettia of the prudential committee in accept accepting accepting ing Mr Rockefellers gift ft that a mis miM missionary ionn ry organization Hun lias hali IIa no Is right to discriminate in regard to lo the motleY money received lest it pass pas la s unwarranted l judg judgment jud meat ment upon the bushiest bu methods of or orthe the donor donOl I T take t i k issue at once OIW The TIU acceptance nce by b the American an hoard hO of ofa ofa a 11 gift from front this source under he the t eat ent t nt conditions must mean one of two things Either the hoard believes ll that the business methods involved d are cor correct correct correct I or r that they are ar a matter of moral indifference so go far as the recep rf p tion of the money is concern lon one I do not like Ilk to see fM s th the American n board take either t on ems of these the positions Such action hurts hurt the th conscience o of or tIme the coming coating generation more mor than that of lf the generation which is pawing I It Itis ItIs itIs is not an incentive to n zeal zal No organization organisation s set t to tn the high and anti lasting end endt of f Christian Christ Ian service can esit C n allow itself to be ha h thought indifferent In to I the moral issues of the day whenever r those these issues if UM are necessarily S affected by b bits its action |