(Some women may be superficial in education and accomplish...)
Some women may be superficial in education and accomplishments, extravagant in tastes, conspicuous in apparel, something more than self-assured in bearing, devoted to trivialities, inclined to frequent public places. It is, nevertheless, not without cause that art has always shown the virtues in woman's dress, and that true literature teems with eloquent tributes and ideal pictures of true womanhood.
(EVERY MAN'S UNIVERSITY A distinct university walks about ...)
EVERY MAN'S UNIVERSITY A distinct university walks about under each man's hat. The only man who achieves success in the other universities of the world, and in the larger university of life, is the man who has first taken his graduate course and his post-graduate course in the university under his hat. There observation furnishes a daily change in the curriculum. Books are not the original sources of power, but observation, which may bring to us all wide experience, deep thinking, fine feeling, and the power to act for oneself, is the very dynamo of power.
Woman and the Law a Comparison of the Rights of Men and the Rights of Women Before the Law.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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(Russell Conwell was an influential and highly successful ...)
Russell Conwell was an influential and highly successful Baptist minister who introduced ideas about prosperity and abundance that were, at the time, highly controversial in the world of Christianity. Contrary to then-popular opinion, Conwell believed that Christians and other spiritually-minded people had a duty to capitalize on their divinely given gifts to become wealthy. In the remarkably popular volume Praying for Money, Conwell addresses this topic in detail and provides some helpful how-to hints.
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THE health and happiness of mankind depend in a great d...)
THE health and happiness of mankind depend in a great degree on faith. Every emotion of the body and every action of the mind is an exhibition of faith. Persons who believe they are well, even if they are ill, will soon recover, and persons who believe that they will not be sick are seldom ill. There is no department of human life so dependent on belief as that connected with health. Millions would arise, take up their couches and walk, if they could be made to believe that they could do so. To believe a falsehood has cured many people, and consciences waver between the duty to tell a patient the clear truth when he is very ill and to make him believe a lie in order that he may get well.
It must also be stated, in fidelity to the truth, that the subject of healing by faith has called out a host of the half-insane classes who proclaim with trumpet tones some cases of divine healing which are unworthy of a moment's consideration. Hence, out of a collection of possibly sincere letters, many have been rejected altogether as foolish or misleading. Eleven hundred written testimonies to cases of healing in direct answer to prayer at the Baptist Temple have been carefully examined and the trustworthy testimonies tabulated. Those "years of healing" to which reference is so often made were years of prayer and years of faith. After deducting all the questionable cases, and after a wide allowance for the naturally health-giving and health-preserving power, the normal human belief is that there remains an overwhelmingly convincing amount of evidence that healing is directly brought about by sincere prayer.
CONTENTS:
Effect of Environment
How a Church Was Built by Prayer
Healing the Sick
Prayer for the Home
Prayer and the Bible
(In Leipzig, Germany, in 1866 there stood an old three-sto...)
In Leipzig, Germany, in 1866 there stood an old three-story mansion, used as a manufactory of mechanical toys. An American student attending the university was invited to visit the showrooms in the upper story and became intently interested in the surprising exhibition of inventive genius. As the visitor descended to the second and first floors he visited the rooms where machinery of many kinds was turning out various parts of the toys. But when he ventured to descend to the cellar to look at the power plant he found "No admission" on every door. But he was more disappointed when he was told that the "designing room," where the toys were invented and the drawings made, was in the subcellar. In order to preserve their patents and their secret processes, even the workmen on the upper floors were forbidden ever to look into the subcellar. That illustrative fact came forcibly to mind when meditating long over a letter written by a praying student and author who said that he felt sure that the only direct passage between the human soul and the world spirits is through the subconscious mind. From that subcellar of the soul come ideas, impulses, and suggestions which most largely influence our actions. But we are forbidden to enter that department to examine the plans or listen to the wireless dispatches from the spirit world so continuously received there. "No admission" is posted on every door to the subcellar designing room of the human soul. We get the blue prints of new plans, or read suggestions for new or improved work sent up to our brains. But who makes them we do not know. In the impenetrable regions of our mental and spiritual nature are formulated many ideas and moral laws which we must blindly obey. A man is what he thinks, and the larger portion of his thinking is originated or molded in his subconscious self
Russell Herman Conwell was an American clergyman, editor, educator, and author. He served as a minister of the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia and as the first President of Temple University.
Background
Russell Herman Conwell was born on February 15, 1843, in South Worthington, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Martin and Miranda Wickham Conwell. The father was an Abolitionist and their farm home was a station of the “Underground Railway” and sheltered many a runaway slave. It was a plain home of poverty and hard work, but it had a certain intellectual atmosphere and Russell developed early into an extensive reader.
Education
At the age of fifteen Russell ran away and worked his way to Europe on a cattle ship. In 1859 he graduated at Wilbraham Academy where he supported himself largely by his own exertions. After a year spent in teaching, he entered Yale, taking the academic and law courses together and earning his expenses by work in a hotel.
Career
In the fall of 1862 Conwell raised Company F, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in the Hampshire region of the state. This company, of which he became captain, was known as the “Mountain Boys. ” His term of service was spent in North Carolina and Virginia, and so great was his reputation as a recruiting officer that he was asked to raise Company D, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, of which he was elected captain. He became lieutenant-colonel on the staff of General McPherson, where he saw much service and was severely wounded at Kenesaw Mountain. He was admitted to the bar in 1865, and went to Minneapolis where he practised law and founded the Daily Chronicle.
After three years of professional and civic activity his health failed and he went abroad as immigration agent for Minnesota. After the recovery of his health he began a career of intense activity in Boston as lawyer, editor, lecturer, and author. He founded the Somerville Journal and the Boston Young Men’s Congress. In college he had become an avowed atheist, but after his wound at Kenesaw Mountain he turned to religion, and after the death of his wife in 1872, this experience deepened.
Taking up a decadent Baptist church in Lexington, Massachusetts, he achieved a remarkable success. He was ordained there in 1879, and after eighteen months was called to the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, which was struggling with debt and discouragement. Under his leadership his Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, entered on a great career of prosperity, and in 1891 dedicated its new home, the great Baptist Temple, seating 3, 000 people. Out of a night school in the basement of the church, with a corps of volunteer teachers, grew Temple University, a college for working people, which had instructed more than 100, 000 pupils in Conwell’s lifetime. Russell became the university's first president.
His famous lecture, Acres of Diamonds, whose proceeds were devoted to the education of more than 10, 000 young men, was given more than 6, 000 times. He was prominent as a lecturer on a great variety of subjects for more than sixty years. Among his numerous books are campaign lives of Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Blaine, and biographies of Spurgeon, Bayard Taylor, and John Wanamaker. In 1923 he was awarded the Bok Prize of $10, 000 by the people of Philadelphia.
Conwell had the gifts of the popular orator and his appeal was preeminently to the plainer sort of people. It has often been pointed out that his ideals of success were nothing more than the popular materialistic ideals of his day, though he always coupled philanthropy with money-getting, in precept and practise.
Connections
In 1865 Conwell married Jennie Hayden of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, who died in 1872. In 1874 he married Sarah Sanborn of Newton Center, Massachusetts, who died in 1910. The children were a son and a daughter by the first marriage and a daughter by the second.