Putnam patriot., 1914-08-28
EARNED $7,OOO,OOO
Rev. Dr. COnweIl Has Received This
 Amount From Lecture.
Delivered "Aeres of Diamonds" More
 Than 5000 Times.

Sun regarding Rev. pr. Gonwell and his famous lecture, "Acres sof Dia- monds, which he delivered here Chautauqua weeks, will be-of interest to all who heard,him.
 Rev, Dr. Russell Cenwell, pastor of Grace Baptist Temple and president of Temple University, in Philadelphia, has earned,S2 ,000,000 by the delivery of one lecture, entitled "Acres of Dia' mvnds, and he has used every cent of the money in educating. thousands of deserving young men and women all over the United States.
 Dr. Conwell has delivered the le ture just 5,000 times. All over the world he has stirred vast audiences with the logic, the insight into human nature and the knowledge of the broad fundamentals of life it displays. It is based on the legend of an Arab who sold his farm to go in search Of dia- mond fields. He searched vainiy for years and finally in despair cast him. self into the sea. Then the man to whom he sold the farm found a dis mond mine in the fields abandoned by the Arab.
 Using the experience of the Arab as his moral, pr. Conwell argues that the great opportunity lies at home. The lecture is frightened with scores of anecdotes of Dr. Conwell's versatile career as preacher, lawyer, lecturer, soldier and,edueator. When recently he gave his five thorsandth delivery of 'NAcres of Diamonds there were men and women in the audience that had heard it twenty.four and twenty five times. They were held ss tightly in its spell as those that were hearing it for the first time.
 pr. Conwell's. great purpose in life is the education of young men. Outing the past fifty years he has personally expended upon individual students in the United States sums which if in. vested at compound interest would reach total of BIO, 100000. As .the re- suit of his personal work, S4,000 stu. dents have been enabled to obtain an education in college.
 Dr. ConwelI has never attempted since he entered the ministry to lay up any money for himself. For twenty years part of his lecture income and part of his salary as pastor of the Bap- tist Temple have been devoted to car rying out plans for the development of Temple University. Each year he gives ,000 to this institution. Dur ing his twenty. years service as president of the university it hes never paid him any salary.
 The average IConwell lecture con tains 12, 900 words. It is safe to say that upon the lecture platform alone Dr. Conwell has spoken l00,000,0 900 words. This is exclusive of his ser mons and political and after dinner speeches. These lectures have been de- livered in every state, n the Union, in all eastern provinces of Canada, in every large city in England, France, Germany, Italy, and to English speak ing audiences in Egypt, Turkey, In din, China and Japan.
 One Sunday morning in small western town iDr. Conwell went into a church and sat down we'll toward the rear. A young minister preached an eloquent sermon. He urged the young men and women to make the most of their opportunities to acquire an education and said he had been able to go through college ioniy by the financial assistance of man whom he had never seen man who mad worked up and,down the country de- livenng lectures and giving his earn ings to education of young men-Rus- sell II Conwell. This is only one of the incidents which furnish an ample return to pr. Conwell for the money he has invested in young men.
 Aside from the thousandss who have been personally benefited by his con tubutions to Temple University, Dr. Conwell has paid the way of more than 2,500 young men through the colleges of this country. These men are to be found in all walks of life-ministefs, lawyers, brokers and merchants.
 When asked If he did not derive a lot of satisfaction from his work Dr. Conwell replied.
 "ft is the greatest comfort of my life.n
 Have they all turned out well2"
 "Bless you no. Some of them went to the peuitentiary
 But this is in no wise an argument against Dr. Conwell's work. Happily the number of jailbirds Is so ssmall as not to enter at all into the calculation.
 pr. Conwell WITS born and reared on a massachusetts, farm. His father could not afford to give him an eduea- tion. He educated himself, working his way through Wilbraham Academy and Yale. lie made his way by dig. ging potatoes, chopping wood, farm Ing, teaching school, teaching music selling books and almost starving him. self
 Often in those trying days shis only food for six weeks at time would bt mush and milk. Alter doing a day'' work at manual labor he would put in ten hours of study. His own Carly struggles to acquire an education made his heart go out in sympathy to tut boy who was making similar en deavor and whose phy sical strength s AS not as great. perhaps, as bis.