New Britain herald., 1921-08-19
HAS GIVEN LECTURE NEARLY 5000 TIMES
Worlds Most Famous Lecturer
 Was Also Here 50 Years Ago

Young men and women of this city who would like to become rich will nave the opportunity of being told now to do so tonight by a man who haa earned and given away moro than s9,ooo,OOO, telling how to accomplish 1 this in lecture which he has given | almost 5000 times in all the civilized | countries in North America, Europe,
 Asia; including the Japanese Islands, 1 Africa, India. Siam, Turkey, Jeru-
 salem, Egypt Abbysinia, etc. Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell, pastor 1 of the Baptist church in Philadelphia,
 with a congregation of 5000 members
 and president of Temple university,
 in that city, the most unique educa- 1 tional institution ond the only ono
 of it's kind in existence, which has 1 educated 10000 boys and girls in i the past 25 years and will open in 1 October, this year, with an enrolment l of 10000 students, Is acknowledged 1 as he highest salaried minister of | the gospel in the world. He started i as pastor of his present church at 1 $500 year and now is paid an an-
 nual salary of s1S,OO0.
 | His famous lecture, which he will
 give in his own church October 22
 for the 6,000th time, has earned, ac- l cording to figures of students in Tenn
 ple university, s9,OOO,O0O in the 50 years he has been delivering it. AL l though he takes his subject Acres
 of Diamonds he adapts the lecture
 entirely to local conditions. When l seen in his room at the Hotel Beloin 1 this morning he said: Its purpose | tonight will be to tell poor young men and women in New Britain how
 to get rich, if they want to do SOL There are fewer cities that I know l better than I do New Britain,'' said l Dr. Conwell, with the statement that l he has been here numerous times in
 the past 50 years. His lecture here ! 50 years ago was rendered in the 1 Methodist church.
 l In Philadelphia, where Dr. Conwell l will deliver his lecture in his own
 church for the 35th time at the an-
 niversary in October, 2,0Oo tickets
 already have been sold at $500 each. Every cent of this lecture money,
 whether received at his own church
 or on the chautauqua platform, is
 given to help some poor boy or girl 1 through college. The money he gets for tolight's lecture will help a one | 1 to get an education.
 1 T get more satisfaction out of my l money spending it that way than I 1 could in spending it any other way,' 1 said the famous lecturer.
 1 Temple university, in Philadelphia, ' which graduated 7,2O0 students at the close Of the term last spring and will open this fall with 10000 is a voca- ] tional institution, whereby poor boys 1 and girls from everywhere in she l United States can earn their own way | through school They are required
 to have high school educations be- fore enrolling. They are provided | with work in the city while learning.
 Law students get work in lawyers i offices, medical students go to city l hospitals or physicians offices, en- | gineerlng students tO-the places where | they can learn and earn at the same
 time They spend their evenings l working at these places and earning 1 their living expenses and go to school 1 at the university in the daytime.
 | Before entering the ministry, at the
 age of 29, Dr. ConweH worked several %years on the New York Tribune and later was editor of the Boston Travel | CT. He is very vigorous for his age. 79 but is accompanied by two trained l nurses at all times. You see," he
 remarked to a Herald representative
 with his famous smile, T am pretty we'll guarded"