Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 1 | Carnegie Said to be Infidel

akes Patriotism lis Seal M. jS Not Been Inside of a 'Church to Worship for j Many Years. K&Dtrine of Lifo If to Teach Wten to Be Rcnl Good , &fczens. MlLADELPHIA. .May o. "Andrew SfcjrrieEie is an infidel," is tho Ssurtllns Msertion published by Xorth American of this city, jfcfwmatlon Is accredited to one dC fyifs most prominent educators, iis Quoted as saying: $itgie docsn t believe in God, and certain I" liis ideas concerning fu-nl fu-nl and punishment' for the Itii evil whkii men do In this iuiolism Is Carnegie's Idol. He time for churches, and refuses ctritute to their support, except-2 except-2 Mveral cases to provide organs. in ho thbiks musical education is j&agh his family continue to at-lie at-lie Presbyterian church, Carnegie sot ten inside a house of worship 22J years, It Is said. Liide's antipathy to the church tie religion of Christ are known to abate friends, but it has been bxttl belief that he was a Prestos. Pres-tos. Carnegie does not Haunt his iitr In the public view, neither li It from the hundreds of siay of them "of the cloth,' who QtOblm for financial aid. ice Carneglo offered a splendid kran to a Methodist , church In Soj. and It was refused. When Kijict was discussed by tho M II was concluded thut the a.could not accept a gift from a it-owns an avowed infidel, teft believe In God,' Carnegie ican who went to him, asking aid s'ltstltutlon whose work was in da the steel master's ideas. 'My patriotism. Teach' a man to be I citizen and you have solved tho a of life.' fald that a comparatively little Jl observed by Carnegie ninny !ro turned him from the church ih his fathers worshiped, "ifyli has never told that in-!,lo in-!,lo any oC his friends, so far as yarned. That is his secret, and while that he clings to his beliefs the man Is bestowing istrestralued vlth both hands."