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Show THE ROCKEFELLER BIBLE CLASS. There Is a quiet disposition on the part of certain of Ihe New York newspapers news-papers to mnko fun of Mr fohn D Rockefeller Jr because he leads one of the ptomlnent lllblo classes of the city Almost ever) Mondi) these New vork newspapers havo news, usually Illustrated an! more or less arcurate, about young Mr Rockefellers little talks te his three hundred or four hun-drun hun-drun Sunday-school pupils Man) of these havo not become famous Some of them havo because tho clnss has honorary members among them Mark 1 wain nnd If these distinguished people peo-ple do not ittcnd the sessions regularly regular-ly It Is their own loss and their own fnult The fact Is that )oung Mr Rockefellers Rockefel-lers effortB appeal as In leed the) ought to appeal to the right feeling nnd the right thinking of all gool peo-1 peo-1 le The Sunday school needs no defense de-fense but the )oung man nnd especially espe-cially tho )nung man of wealth nnd gifts who has the time tn take nn Interest In-terest in these sacred nnd valuable affairs af-fairs does not deserve well of his neighbors unless he makes an effort to bring out the good that Inheres In others and aso the very great good which oven Inheres In him It Is a double dou-ble benefit to participate In public or altruistic ifTatra of nn) kind It helps the recipients of the public or the private pri-vate favor It mskes them krateful and stirs them up to efforts of theli own The advnntugo to the Individual who puts forth the effort originally ought also to brt taken Into account ns or,j of tho most significant Incidents In the manB oi the woman a life Young Mr Rockefeller himself liar said that It Is of no purtlc r credit to anybody to simp!) poaicas things The creditable ihlng Is tho wish to give them nuns 'I Ills of course, does nnt I ply meiely lo mom) of which this )oung man has plenl) nnd more tn ionic, It ii plies riiuall) to his words of ni)utliy or encouragement, hla good ah Ice, his hearty gtusp ot tha hind, hla determlnatl in tn do what good he can as he goes along Young Mr Rockefeller may not realize fully how much good he la doing tor others and how much he Is also doing for himself |