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Message Subject Rockefellers
Poster Handle CHRIST
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DID ROCKEFELLER SWINDLE HIS CHURCH?


YOU BE THE JUDGE:


ONE OF THE EARLIEST EPISODES. ROCKEFELLER WAS NO MORE THAN

20 YEARS OLD. ROCKEFELLER HAD HELPED HIS MOTHER WITH

BOOKEEPING, WENT TO A COMMERCIAL SCHOOL AND STUDIED

BOOKEEPING, AND WAS HIRED IN HIS FIRST JOB AS A BOOKEEPER

BY 'HEWITT AND TUTTLE' COMMODITY TRADERS IN CLEVELAND.


'WHEN HEWITT AND TUTTLE ASSIGNED ROCKEFELLER TO PAY THE

BILLS, HE WENT AT THIS TASK WITH AN UNDISGUISED ZEAL, A

PRECOCIOUS VIRTUOSITY, AND "ATTENDED [TO IT] WITH

MORE RESPONSIBILITY THAN THE SPENDING OF MY OWN FUNDS"

HE CLOSELY REVIEWED THE BILLS, CONFIMING THE VALIDITY

OF EACH ITEM AND CAREFULLY ADDING UP THE TOTALS. HE

POUNCED ON ERRORS OF EVEN A FEW CENTS AND REACTED WITH

SCORNFUL AMAZEMENT WHEN THE BOSS NEXT DOOR HANDED HIS

CLERK A LENGTHY, UNEXAMINED PLUMBING BILL AND BLITHELY

SAID "PLEASE PAY THIS BILL". ROCKEFELLER WAS APPALED BY

SUCH CAVALIER INDIFFERENCE, HAVING JUST CAUGHT THE SAME

FIRM IN AN OVERCHARGE OF SEVERAL CENTS."


JOHN JOINS THE CHURCH.


"IN THE FALL OF 1854, AFTER MAKING A PERSONAL CONFESSION

OF FAITH, JOHN WAS IMMERSED IN THE BAPTISMAL BASIN BY

DEACON SKED AND BEFCAME A CHURCH MEMBER (IN THE ERIE

STREET BAPTIST MISSION CHURCH, ORGANIZED BY THE FIRST

BAPTIST CHURCH)."


"INSTEAD OF MERELY ATTENDING SERVICES, ROCKEFELLER PERFORMED

NUMBERLESS TASKS IN THE CHURCH. WHILE STILL IN HIS TEENS,

HE BECAME A SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER, A TRUSTEE, AND AN UNPAID

CLERK WHO KEPT THE BOARD MINUTES IN HIS OWN HAND."


"WHILE ROCKEFELLER'S RELIGIOUS FAITH RAN STRONG, HE WAS

MOST INVOLVED IN THE TEMPORAL AFFAIRS OF THE CHURCH, WHICH

HE THOUGHT SHOULD BE RUN LIKE A TIDY BUSINESS."


"HE SOON HAD A CHANCE TO DEFEND THE CHURCH'S SOLVENCY WHEN

IT FELL BEHIND ON INTEREST PAYMENTS ON A $2,000 MORTGAGE

HELD BY A DEACON. ONE SUNDAY THE PASTOR ANNOUNCED FROM

THE PULPIT THAT THIS CREDITOR THREATENED TO FORECLOSE ON

THE CHURCH AND THAT THEY HAD TO RAISE $2,000 VERY FAST

TO SURVIVE. AS THE STUNNED CONGREGATION FILED OUT, THEY

FOUND ROCKEFELLER STATIONED AT THE DOOR, BUTTONHOLING

PEOPLE AND ASKING THEM TO PLEDGE SPECIFIC AMOUNTS"


QUESTION: HOW COULD THE CHURCH FALL BEHIND IN ITS PAYMENTS,

DURING ROCKEFELLER'S TENURE?



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