1843-1925
Preacher

Outstanding Minister.

Promoting Growth.

Speaker.

The Pursuit of Wealth.

And Conwell believed that people should seek wealth. As he pointed out, "I have come to tell you . . . you ought to be rich and it is your duty to get rich." He concluded the lecture by saying that "to make money is to preach the gospel." Conwell was careful to distinguish between seeking money for its own sake and seeking wealth to do good. Like other self-help spokesmen at the end of the nineteenth century, he believed in the stewardship of wealth. "The man that worships the dollar instead of the purposes for which it ought to be used, the man who idolizes simply money, the miser that hoards his money in the cellar, or hides it in his stocking, or refuses to invest it where it will do the world good, that man...