Russell H. Conwell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 351 pages of information about Russell H. Conwell.

Russell H. Conwell eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 351 pages of information about Russell H. Conwell.
  “Three Scenes from the Mount of Olives.” 
  “Americans in Europe.” 
  “General Grant’s Empire.” 
  “Princess Elizabeth.” 
  “Guides.” 
  “Success in Life.” 
  “The Undiscovered.” 
  “The Silver Crown, or Born a King.” 
  “Heroism of a Private Life.” 
  “The Jolly Earthquake.” 
  “Heroes and Heroines.” 
  “Garibaldi, or the Power of Blind Faith.” 
  “The Angel’s Lily.” 
  “The Life of Columbus.” 
  “Five Million Dollars for the Face of the Moon.” 
  “Henry Ward Beecher.” 
  “That Horrid Turk.” 
  “Cuba’s Appeal to the United States.” 
  “Anita, the Feminine Torch.” 
  “Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women.”

His lecturing tours now are confined to the United States, as his church duties will not permit him to go farther afield, but so wide is his fame that a few years ago he declined an offer of $39,000 for a six months’ engagement In Australia.  This year (1905) he received an offer of $50,000 for two hundred lectures in Australia and England.

He lectures, as he preaches, with the earnest desire ever uppermost to help some one.  He never goes to a lecture engagement without a definite prayer to God that his words may be so directed as to do some good to the community or to some individual.  When he has delivered “Acres of Diamonds,” he frequently leaves a sum of money with the editor of the leading paper in the town to be given as a prize for any one who advances the most practical idea for using waste forces in the neighborhood.  In one Vermont town where he had lectured, the money was won by a young man who after a careful study of the products of the neighborhood, said he believed the lumber of that section was especially adapted to the making of coffins.  A sum of $2,000 was raised, the water power harnessed and a factory started.

A man in Michigan who was on the verge of bankruptcy, having lost heavily in real estate speculation, heard “Acres of Diamonds,” and started in, as the lecture advises, right at home to rebuild his fortunes.  Instead of giving up, he began the same business again, fought a plucky fight and is now president of the bank and a leading financier of the town.

A poor farmer of Western Massachusetts, finding it impossible to make a living on his stony place, had made up his mind to move and advertised his farm for sale.  He heard “Acres of Diamonds,” took to heart its lessons.  “Raise what the people about you need,” it said to him.  He went into the small fruit business and is now a rich man.

The man who invented the turnout and switch system for electric cars received his suggestion from “Acres of Diamonds.”

A baker heard “Acres of Diamonds,” got an idea for an improved oven and made thousands of dollars from it.

A teacher in Montrose, Pennsylvania, was so impressed with the practical ideas in the now famous lecture that he determined to teach what his pupils most needed to know.  Being in a farming district, he added agricultural chemistry to their studies with such success that the next year he was elected principal of one of the Montrose schools and shortly afterward was appointed Superintendent of Education and President of the State University of Ohio.

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