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one man's interpretation of life

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Table of Contents

I. The Story of the Sword.
Page 19
II. The Man He Grew to Be.
Page 26
III. Doctor Conwell's Ancestry.
Page 29
IV. The Conwell Home Without and Within.
Page 32
V. The Friends that Came and Went.
Page 45
VI. Early Years.
Page 59
VII. The Runaway.
Page 67
VIII. School Days.
Page 75
IX. The Place of Music in Education.
Page 83
X. School Days at Wilbraham.
Page 90
XI. College Days at Yale.
Page 101
XII. The Outbreak of the War.
Page 106
XIII. Going to War.
Page 112
XIV. The Second Enlistment.
Page 125
XV. New Ventures.
Page 135
XVI. Busy Days in Boston.
Page 151
XVII. His Entry into the Ministry.
Page 166
XVIII. His First Pastorate.
Page 170
XIX. The Early Days of the Philadelphia Pastorate.
Page 185
XX. A Child's Legacy.
Page 197
XXI. Building The Temple.
Page 199
XXII. How The Temple Works.
Page 209
XXIII. The Business Management.
Page 227
XXIV. The Music of The Temple.
Page 233
XXV. Temple Services.
Page 243
XXVI. Temple Prayer-Meetings.
Page 255
XXVII. How Temple University Transforms Life.
Page 261
XXVIII. A University for the People.
Page 274
XXIX. A Democratic Institution.
Page 282
XXX. Helping the Sick Poor.
Page 294
XXXI. Spreading Visions.
Page 296
XXXII. The History of "Acres of Diamonds."
Page 307
XXXIII. Ten Million Hearers.
Page 318
XXXIV. Fifty Years on the American Platform
Page 331
XXXV. Doctor Conwell as a Writer.
Page 340
XXXVI. Marginalia.
Page 347
XXXVII. The Message of a Life.
Page 352
XXXVIII. "Open the Gates of the Temple".
Page 355
APPENDIX
Doctor Conwell's View of a Menace to Our Democracy
Page 363
"The Battlefields of the Rebellion"
Page 376
Whittier's Poem, "Memories"
Page 388
Outline of Early Sermons
Page 391
Service used in the Dedication of Infants
Page 399
ACRES OF DIAMONDS
"Acres of Diamonds"
Page 405

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Published in
Philadelphia

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Library of Congress
BX6495.C6 B8

The Physical Object

Pagination
438 p. incl. illus.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7120388M
Internet Archive
russellhconwellh00burr
LCCN
17005422

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