The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Aked, Charles Frederick

AKED, ā′kĕd, Charles Frederick, Anglo-American clergyman: b. Nottingham, England, 27 Aug. 1864. He began his career as auctioneer to the sheriff of Derbyshire, but later entered as a student in the Midland Baptist College. He first attracted attention in Liverpool as a speaker and his congregation there became one of the largest in England. During the Boer war he was one of those who founded the Passive Resistance League whose object was to put an end to that war, and this made him, for a time, very unpopular. In 1907, through the influence of John D. Rockefeller, he received a call to the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York. In 1911 he went to San Francisco, where he became pastor of the First Congregational Church. In 1913 he became a citizen of the United States. Among his published writings are ‘The Courage of the Coward’ (1905); ‘A Ministry of Reconciliation’ (1907); ‘Mercies New Every Morning’ (1907); ‘Wells and Palm Trees’ (1908); ‘Old Events and Modern Meanings’ (1908); ‘The Lord’s Prayer; Its Meaning and Message for To-day’ (1910).