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Agnes Rush Burr. Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America
Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
CONWELL THE PIONEER
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Chapter I.—Ancestry. John Conwell, the English Ancestor who fought for the Preservation of the English Language. Martin Conwell of Maryland. A Runaway Marriage. The Parents of Russell H. Conwell. Chapter II.—Early Environment. The Family Circle. An Unusual Mother. What She Read Her Children. A Preacher at Three Years of Age. Chapter III.—Days of Study, Work and Play. The Schoolhouse in the Woods. Maple Sugar-making. The Orator of the Dawn. A Boyish Prank. Capturing the Eagle's Nest. Chapter IV.—Two Men and Their Influence. John Brown. Fireside Discussions. Runaway Slaves. Fred Douglas. Rev. Asa Niles. A Runaway Trip to Boston. Chapter V—Trying His Wings. Boyhood Days. Russell's First Case at Law. A Cure for Stage Fever. Studying Music. A Runaway Trip to Europe. Chapter VI—Out of the Home Nest. School Days at Wilbraham Academy. The First School Oration and Its Humiliating End. The Hour of Prayer in the Conwell Home at the Time of John Brown's Execution. Chapter VII.—War's Alarms. College Days at Yale. The Outbreak of the Civil War. Patriotic Speechmaking. New York and Henry Ward Beecher. Chapter VIII.—While the Conflict Raged. Lincoln's Call for One Hundred Thousand Men. Enlistment. Captain Conwell. In Camp at Springfield, Mass. The Famous Gold-sheathed Sword. Chapter IX.—In the Thick of the Fight. Company F at Newberne, N.C. The Fight at Batchelor's Creek. The Goldsboro Expedition. The Battle of Kingston. The Gum Swamp Expedition. Chapter X.—The Sword and the School Book. Scouting at Bogue Sound. Captain Conwell Wounded. The Second Enlistment. Jealousy and Misunderstanding. Building of the First Free School for Colored Children. Attack on Newport Barracks. Heroic Death of John Ring. Chapter XI.—A Soldier of the Cross. Under Arrest for Absence Without Leave. Order of Court Reversed by President. Certificate from State Legislature of Massachusetts for Patriotic Services. Appointed by President Lincoln, Lieutenant-Colonel on General McPherson's Staff. Wounded at Kenesaw Mountain. Conversion. Public Profession of Faith. Chapter XII.—Westward. Resignation from Army. Admission to Bar. Marriage. Removal to Minnesota. Founding of the Minneapolis Y.M.C.A. and of the Present "Minneapolis Tribune." Burning of Home. Breaking Out of Wound. Appointed Emigration Agent to Germany by Governor of Minnesota. Joins Surveying Party to Palestine. Near to Death in Paris Hospital. Journey to New York for Operation in Bellevue Hospital. Return to Boston. Chapter XIII.—Writing His Way Around the World. Days of Poverty in Boston. Sent to Southern Battlefields. Around the World for New York and Boston Papers. In a Gambling Den in Hong Kong, China. Cholera and Shipwreck. Chapter XIV.—Busy Days in Boston. Editor of "Boston Traveller." Free Legal Advice for the Poor. Temperance Work. Campaign Manager for General Nathaniel P. Banks. Urged for Consulship at Naples. His Work for the Widows and Orphans of Soldiers. Chapter XV.—Troubled Days. Death of Wife. Loss of Money. Preaching on Wharves. Growth of Sunday School Class at Tremont Temple from Four to Six Hundred Members in a Brief Time. Second Marriage. Death of Father and Mother. Preaching at Lexington. Building Lexington Baptist Church. Chapter XVI.—His Entry Into the Ministry. Ordination. First Charge at Lexington. Call to Grace Baptist Church, Philadelphia. Chapter XVII.—Going to Philadelphia. The Early History of Grace Baptist Church. The Beginning of the Sunday Breakfast Association. Impressions of a Sunday Service. Chapter XVIII.—First Days at Grace Baptist Church. Early Plans for Church Efficiency. Practical Methods for. Chapter XXXI.—The Manner of the Message. The Style of the Sermons. Their Subject Matter. Preaching to Help Some Individual Church Member. Chapter XXXII.—These Busy Later Days. A Typical Week Day. A Typical Sunday. Mrs. Conwell. Back to the Berkshires in Summer for Rest. Chapter XXXIII.—As a Lecturer. Wide Fame as a Lecturer. Date of Entrance on Lecture Platform. Number of Lectures Given. The Press on His Lectures. Some Instances of How His Lectures Have Helped People. Address at Banquet to President McKinley. Chapter XXXIV.—As a Writer. Rapid Method of Working. A Popular Biographical Writer. The Books He has Written. Chapter XXXV.—A Home Coming. Reception Tendered by Citizens of Philadelphia in Acknowledgment of Work as Public Benefactor. Chapter XXXVI.—The Path That Has Been Blazed. Problems That Need Solving. The Need of Men Able to Solve Them
CHAPTER I
ANCESTRY
CHAPTER II
EARLY ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER III
DAYS OF STUDY, WORK AND PLAY
CHAPTER IV
TWO MEN AND THEIR INFLUENCE
CHAPTER V
TRYING HIS WINGS
CHAPTER VI
OUT OF THE HOME NEST
CHAPTER VII
WAR'S ALARMS
CHAPTER VIII
WHILE THE CONFLICT RAGED
CHAPTER IX
IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT
CHAPTER X
THE SWORD AND THE SCHOOL BOOK
CHAPTER XI
A SOLDIER OF THE CROSS
CHAPTER XII
WESTWARD
CHAPTER XIII
WRITING HIS WAY AROUND THE WORLD
Part of the time Bayard Taylor was his traveling companion, and there grew up between these two kindred spirits an intimate friendship that lasted until Taylor's death
CHAPTER XIV
BUSY DAYS IN BOSTON
CHAPTER XV
TROUBLED DAYS
CHAPTER XVI
HIS ENTRY INTO THE MINISTRY
CHAPTER XVII
GOING TO PHILADELPHIA
CHAPTER XVIII
FIRST DAYS AT GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
CHAPTER XIX
HATTIE WIATT'S LEGACY
CHAPTER XX
BUILDING THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER XXI
OCCUPYING THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER XXII
HOW THE CHURCH WORKS
CHAPTER XXIII
FAIRS AND ENTERTAINMENTS
CHAPTER XXIV
THE BUSINESS SIDE
SPECIAL OFFERING. THE BAPTIST TEMPLE
VISITORS AND MEMBERS
CHAPTER XXV
THE CHORUS OF THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER XXVI
SERVICES AT THE TEMPLE
PRAYER. HYMN. BENEDICTION
CHAPTER XXVII
A TYPICAL PRAYER MEETING
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE TEMPLE COLLEGE
"RUSSELL H. CONWELL."
CHAPTER XXIX
THE SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
CHAPTER XXX
THE MANNER OF THE MAN
CHAPTER XXXI
THE MANNER OF THE MESSAGE
CHAPTER XXXII
THESE BUSY LATER DAYS
CHAPTER XXXIII
AS A LECTURER
CHAPTER XXXIV
AS A WRITER
CHAPTER XXXV
A HOME COMING
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE PATH THAT HAS BEEN BLAZED
ACRES OF DIAMONDS
PERSONAL GLIMPSES OF CELEBRATED MEN AND WOMEN
ACRES OF DIAMONDS.[A]
"PERSONAL GLIMPSES OF CELEBRATED MEN AND WOMEN."[A]
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Agnes Rush Burr
The Work and the Man
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At three years of age, he trudged off to school with his brother Charles. Though Charles was three years the senior, the little fellow struggled to keep pace with him in all their childish play and work. Two miles the children walked daily to the schoolhouse, a long walk for a toddler of three. But it laid the foundation of that strong, rugged constitution that has carried him so unflinchingly through the hard work of these later years. The walk to school was the most important part of the performance, for lessons had no attraction for the boy as yet. But the road through the woods to the schoolhouse was a journey of ever new and never-ending excitement. The road lay along a silver-voiced brook that rippled softly by shadowy rock, or splashed joyous and exultant down its boulder-strewn path. It was this same brook whose music drifted into his little attic bedroom at night, stilled to a faint, far-away murmur as the wind died down, rising to a high, clear crescendo of rushing, tumbling water as the breeze stirred in the tree tops and brought to him the forest sounds. Hour after hour he lay awake listening to it, his childish imagination picturing fairies and elves holding their revels in the woods beyond. An oratorical little brook it was, unconsciously leaving an impress of its musical speech on the ears of the embryo orator. Moreover, in its quiet pools lurked watchful trout. Few country boys could walk along such a stream unheeding its fascinations, especially when the doors of a school house opened at the farther end, and many an hour when studies should have claimed him, he was sitting by the brookside, care-free and contented, delightedly fishing. Nor are any berries quite so luscious as those which grow along the country road to school. It takes long, long hours to satisfy the keen appetite of a boy, and lessons suffered during the berry seasons. Another keen excitement of the daily journey through a living world of mystery and enchantment was the search for frogs. Woe to the unlucky frog that fell in the way of the active, curious boy. Some one had told him that old, old countryside story, "If you kill a frog, the cows will give bloody milk." Eager to see such a phenomenon, he watched sharply. Let an unlucky frog give one unfortunate croak, quick, sure-aimed, flew a stone, and he raced home at night to see the miracle performed. He was just a boy as other boys—mischievous, disobedient, fonder of play than work or study. But underneath, uncalled upon as yet, lay that vein of perseverance as unyielding as the granite of his native hills.
The schoolhouse inside was not unattractive. Six windows gave plenty of light, and each framed woodland pictures no painter's canvas could rival. The woods were all about and the voice of the little brook floated in, always calling, calling—at least to one small listener—to come out and see it dance and sparkle and leap from rock to rock. If he gained nothing else from his first school days but a love and appreciation of nature's beauties, it was a lesson well worth learning. To feed the heart and imagination of a child with such scenery is to develop unconsciously a love of the beautiful which brings a pure joy into life never to be lost, no matter what stress and storm may come. In the darkest, stormiest hours of his later life, to think back to the serene beauty of those New England hills was as a hand of peace laid on his troubled spirit.
