Paragould soliphone., 1921-06-29

told me that she was happier then, in that humble home. than she ever had been in her palace
 So l say to men, "Get money; l get all you honestly can. And get fame; get all you honestly can. But don't be deluded with the idea that either your money or your fame are in themselves, going to bring you happiness"
 Mr. Barton: But if neither mon ey nor fame makes a man happy in old age, what does? What isl the secret of cohtentment in old age-of your contentment?
 Doctor Conwell: I think I should answer that by saying: First of all the power of adjustability. If only men and women could realize the importance of that secret, what a different world it would be. Every where you go you see people making themselves miserable by futile struggle against things that cannot be changed; fighting their environ ment; fretting over the difficulties of life, as though the difficulties were not a recognized part of the
 contract; fighting off old age. To learn early to change what can be changed, and to put up happily with what cannot be-what q bless
 ing that is!
 1 Frances Willard knew that secret as well as any person l ever saw.
 I was with her at great conference | in Edinburgh The hotel was bad: her room was small, dingy, and un-
 comfortable She was woman of international reputation and lmpor- tance. It would have been so easy for her to make herself unhappy and a lot of other people too-by complaining about the lack of re- lspect and thoughtfuncss shown her. |But not a suggestion of complaint. She settled herself quietly into the little room and went on with her work. It is question whether she was even conscious of the room at Iall-so little did circumstances af- fleet her course or her thought.
 l There arc many good notices in ithe world, but none l like better than this: Let patience have her lperfect work I lecture two hundred and ten nights every year; I travel 1.-two hundred and ten days; I stop in two hundred and ten hotels, some good, some pretty good, some pretty bad If I miss a train it does not fret me. I pull out a book, and sit down and wait for another train.
 I say to my students: Don't try to do less as you grow older; dc the same amount, or more-but dc lit more easily" When l was q lstudent at Yale and we sang on the college fence, the song leader wrote over the top of one of our Isheets of music-Allegro non toe
 mucho, which was bad Italian but mighty good common sense. Ale gro, non too mucho. Fast, but moi too fast To work but not to over work To have faith in God; but |not the faith in recklesSness, or the
 faith that lies down and expects God to pull the whole load To have money. but not too much money. For money is like fire-a good ser
 want but bad master.
 MT. Barton: You say "to have
 money, but not too much money
 How much money is too much
 How much is enough? At what point does money give the largest
 satisfaction with the least burden
 Doctor Conwell: l don't know that I can answer that. Men differ
 in their characters and requirements. But if you change the question a little and ask, How does money
 give the largest satisfaction?"
 con tell you that.
 Last Christmas John D. Rockefc- Ter sent me check for one thousand dollars. I have never been associat cd with Mir. Rockefeller in all my
 life, never asked him for cent. never written him or given him
 any reason to suppose that l needed money. Yet here, out of q clear lsky, comes a check for one thousand dollars. When l opened the envc- lopc and found it, l said to myself: Here's q thousand dollars that l
 hadn't expected at all. How can |
 have the most fun with it?'
 Well, l went over to the dean of Temple University and asked him for tho names of six boys who had been forced 10 drop out for lack of money; ! l gave d hundred to each. and they were ablo to finish the year. Then l | thought sf poor old widow oul
 on tue edge of the city, who had | been sick and wasn't able to pay
 even the ptiful little rent for her 1 tiny cottage. So I rode out there 1 and paid her rent for two years in l adVance--two hundred dollars d year---and took the receipt and gave | it to her as d Christmas gift.
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