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Show I PREACHING NOf I SATISFYING I j Rockefeller's Pastor Sees Big- I ! ger Promises In West I. ) Than in New York City I i H , Now York, Feb. 14 Tlml tlio Hov. B Charles !'. A!c(l reels (lint tic Is waHt- Bf lug tlmo us pastor or tlio Fifth Avon- B uo HaptiHt cliuich In tlilH city or H which Jolin I). Ituckefeller Is n lead- B? lug member anil that tlio fnmouH Br , L'ngllsh preacher contemplates leaving B his present pustorato for somo moro B promising Held of labor, possibly Cal- Bj , j Ifornln, in pot forth In statements or K unusual character made by Or. Akcil B to n HrltlBh news ogcnc tor publlcn- B tloti this week In Uiif,lnml. B Dr. Akcil Is now on a month'H aca- H , tloit, where he ImH mot a ery cordial B rccoptlon The, statement legardlng B his work In New York city wiih pro- B ' pnrcd befoio ho left for the went, but B ( with tlio condition that It Hhould not B bo made public, either -In F.nglnud or Bl America until today. Ho says: KJ f "If I could bo content with n vory B easy berth and n Bltuatlon among tb Br" taOBt charming poci'c In tho world, B '( my future In nettled, but I cannot be B t j content with n work that seems to me B ' to be (small B "It Ih a question for mo whether I B ran bring myself to accept the llmltii- B , tlons of my present position for tho B sake of friendships aud for tho sako B ' of tho llttlo good I can do In Now B I J ,York. Mrs. AUed pays thn tlho nlcost B ' peoplo In tho world nro to bo found B among Americans; that tho nlcoat BJ Americans aro In Now York and that Bp tho nicest people In Now York nro In B' our churcli, ami as that represents B the feeling of both of us, you can un- B'l derstand that It would bo an absolute B'S horror to feci that one's work called B one elsewhere. B Salary No Object . B'f "Tho question of salary docs not Bv eigh with me. It's perfectly truo Bji! that tlio church lias Just raised my B' salary to $12,000 from $10,000, but I Bf, would rather have a third or a uuar- K ter of that salary as I used to haro Bh and feel 1 wns doing somo god In tho Bh world, thnn liavo a big salary and H feel that I nm, compared with my Kng- B'l llsh life, wasting my tlmo. BU "I know that It Is not tho view my Bt"i peoplo take. Tho church Is crowded Btf at nil Us various services. Tho people BM think It mngniricent and their kind- B y nebs to mo knows no bounds. Hut all Bp seems very small to mo after my Kng- BH llsh life. I feel as though, after four B years, wo ought to bo In a dlrforont Bt position and with different prospects B "Tho trustees hae understood 1. from the first that I could not con- Bj.J tcmplato a permanent mlnlstr under i present conditions. Now I do not sec how present conditions are to bo rom- Sedled and I havo to sit down and con- 'f ' slder whether I can accept prcsont Br. ' conditions for tho roninindor of my BJ,. natural llfo or whether I shall llstou J to proposals from somo other city, or H somo olthor country." BJ( Dr. Akcd speaks at length ot his BJ' efforts In connection wit lithe project BJ'. , for tho construcllori of a big now cdl- BJ flco for tho church. It If tho failure BJ of this schema on account or tho dif- BJ flculty ot securing u site which tlio BJ ttustees could agree upon as entirely BJ suitable, which appears to have dls- BJ couraged him mobt of nil. |