A REPUBLICAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13150, 9 August 1913, Page 10

A REPUBLICAN.

WHY HE , BECAME AN AMERICAN . LONDON, June 18. , Ut c. I. Aked, the preacher who went from the Pembroke Baptist Church m Liverpool to the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church m Now York six years ago, has become an American citizen. Dr Aked, who began his career as an auctioneer, received a salary of £250 a : year m New York, where the newspapers called him "The Twelve-Thou-sand-Dollar Parson." His congregation 111^ P^Pto pnce subscribed [ ±.65,000 at a single service. He quarrelled witt the trustees m connection with the. buildmg of a great new church, and afterwards, accepted a call to San Ej-ancisco* r aJ. a salary of £2000 a year. lJie New. York trustees said hard things of him -before Jus departure for the West, one of them, Air Elder, declaring that nothing but "a vast auditorium njled, with rambling religious rubbernecks" would satisfy Dr AkedV desires. NEW YORK, June 18. ''Why I became an American" is the subject of a long explanation , published lfl the American newspapers by Dr (diaries F. Aked, who is now pastor of the First Congregational Church m San Francisco, where on Saturday he renounced his allegiance to the King. \"I am sure my friends m England," he says, "will never understand why I have done this, but the reason is briefly this: I. have always . been a Republican. I seem to have been born into the. world with, a hatred of monarchy * and everything tlmt goes with it. All the homage paid to Kings and Queens and all the trappings of Qoui-ts, the very language employed has been, from, 1 my earliest boyhood intolerable to me. 'The fact, that oiie is a subject of King Edawrd or King George is unplsasant to mo and King-worship m all countries and a.ll ages disgusts me."' Dr Aked declares that the hero-worshipper i^' opposed "with all his soul to Kingworship,