Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He always came early in the morning to kindle the fire and stayed late to dim the gas lamps.
"'Boys, do you know why I never became a drunkard?'
he liked to ask the room.
"'Cause I never took the first drink.'"
He had been covering half the church's budget out of his own pocket for decades.
His faith was not a costume he put on.
It was the oldest and steadiest thing within him."
which is exactly why his pew had become a kind of attraction.
The richest, most haunted man in the country sat in plain view of the ninth row every Sunday, and the church increasingly filled with people who had not come for the sermon.
They were curiosity seekers, feature writers, and panhandlers, and old men angling to get near his money or pry loose a tip on Standard Oil stock.
Instead, he gave them hymns and temperance lectures and nothing more.
He and Ida Tarbell were in the same room exactly once, and he never knew it.
In the fall of 1903, hearing that Rockefeller would give a special talk at his Cleveland Sunday School, Tarbell decided to attend.
She got there first and watched as he entered the room.
She watched him take off his coat and hat and slide a black skullcap over his bald head and sit down flush against the wall where he could see the whole room.
There was an awful age in his face, she wrote afterwards of 64-year-old Rockefeller, the oldest man I had ever seen.
I thought, but what power.
She studied him for the two-hour service, watching him crane his neck and scan the crowd and decided for herself that he was afraid.
She wrote, I was sorry for him.
I know no companion, no terrible as fear.
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