Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-16
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feet and acres of diamonds sparkle all
about me, If only am not blinded to
the sight of them? Not a single one
of us but has many opportunities TO
advance ourselves and gain a hlgher
position If only we seize those 'oppor-
tunities when they appear. There lies
the moral of the book and the lecture,
a sane. rational appeal to the best that
is in us.
When DR.. Conwell was at Yale he
had pretty hard row to hoe and con-
sequently came to the determination
that whatever he could do to make the
way easier at college for other young
men working their way, that he would
do. And the many millions of dollars
that have accumulated for at least the
last thirty years have been devoted to
helping educate 1000 young men; the
remainder of the lecture money Is used
to defray his expenses.
Just q thought-"Ninety- eight out
of one hundred of the rich men or
America are honest. That is why they
are rich. That is why they are trusted
with money That is why they carry
on great enterprises and find plenty of
people to work with them. 1t Is be-
cause they are honest men. Money is
power, and you ought to be reasonably
ambitious to have 1t. You ought to
because you can do more good with 1t
than you can without it. The love of
money is the root of all evil but the
Bible does not by this mean that you
sha'n't be ambitious to possess 1t.
How true it all is, and yet how differ
ent from the general attitude that is
taken in respect to extremely rlch
men, They are generally regarded in
an entirely different light. The book
is full of food for thought. and the lee
ture is very similar to the book, modi-
fed somewhat to meet local con-
ditions. Those who do not have an
opportunity of hearing DR.. Conwen
on Saturday evening of this week will
make a gilt-edged investment in
Acres of Diamonds"
Hear the story of Ali IIafed. the old
Persian farmer who was rich and con-
tented, who heard from an old priest
the story of the creation of the world
and how diamonds first came into
existence. He became interested in
the acres of diamonds which the old
priest told him were to be found in
certain part of the world, worth bill
lions and billions of dollars. Ali be-
came discontented, sold his farm, and
set out to look for these wonderful
diamonds After many wanderings he
became discouraged as well as discon-
tented and committed suicide. The
man who had bought his farm later
found that it was diamond mine in
disguise and became fabulously rich
ana pOWeGlul.
The scientifically correct, according
to the lecturer. definition of a diamond
is "a CONCEALED drop of sunlight" that
is, an actual deposit of carbon from
the sun. and that is how they were
made in the beginning, according to
the old Buddhist priest.
"The world was once q mere bank
of fog, and the Almighty thrust His
finger into this bank of fog, and be-
gan slowly to move his finger around,
increasing the speed until at last He
whirled this bank of fog into a solid
ball of fire. Then it went rolling
through the universe, burning its way
through other banks of fog, and con-
densed the moisture without, until it
fell in floods of rain upon it's hot sur
face and cooled the outward crust.
Then the internal fires bursting out
ward through the crust threw up the
mountain and hills. the valleys, the
plains and prairies of this wonderful
world of ours. If this internal molten
mass came bursting out and cooled
very quickly it became granite; less
quickly, copper; less quickly, silver;
less quickly, gold, and after gold, dia-
monds were made"