FORTUNE REFUSED FOR SAKE OF CONSCIENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81898, 3 December 1906, Page 4

FORTUNE REFUSED FOR SAKE OF CONSCIENCE.

What was. perhaps, Ihe latg.tt fortune eve 1 k-luskl lu, conscience *«kc was that front which Mr Frederick Cnaning-.oii, the famu> t<mpcrahce advocate and religious worker in tlie East End of London, turned aside. Mr Ct;aning;ou was emu cd to a si,an, in his father's great brewery bu-inetts—one of the .aige-'t • n Loud hi—and it is estimated i.iat the share lie refused was worth .£1,250.000 when ae made up his mind that he would not accept t. 1 he story i, tuld of how he was led to make his momentous resolve. He chanced to b s'.itn:l:ng outside a public house in the Ea-t End, w leu he saw a drunken man shot tinough the tk-..rs into i;;2 aims of a wretch-ed-locking woman, who was patiently awaiting nini. Ti.e diunkard suuek the woman and heaped the vite-t abuse 011 tier witaout- any apparent ptovocation; and iu they slouched away Mr Chan in;.; on, chancing to g anee up, saw hi. own name in larye gilt letters 011 the public house sign. It was one of the biewery's tkd house-. Such was tlie impre-sion left by the incident upon Mr Chavrington's mind thai he vowed henceforth to have 110 share in tile fade which was productive of such re-ulis, but in-tead to devote himself to the cause of iempeiar.ee and restuing the outcasts of East London, a work he has done at- the utmost self sacrifice "How much do thev pav vou for Vvearing that bit of b u'e l'ibbon ?'' sneeringly enquired an impeitinent young man of Mr Cnarrington on one occasion. "As nearly a s I can make out," answered the reformer, with a bland smile, "it costs me £20,000 a year."