Russell HConwell, founder of the institutional church in America, the work and the man . 256 xxii CONTENTS Chapter XXXI.—The Manner of the Message. ^^^ The Style of the Sermons. Their Subject Matter. Preach-ing to Help Some Individual Church Member . . 272 Chapter XXXII.—These Busy Later Typical Week Day. A Typical Sunday. Mrs. to the Berkshires in Summer for Rest .... 279 Chapter XXXIII.—As a Lecturer. Wide Fame as a Lecturer. Date of Entrance on Lec-ture Platform. Number of Lectures Given, The Presson His Lectures. Some Instances of How His LecturesHave Helped People. Add
Russell HConwell, founder of the institutional church in America, the work and the man . 256 xxii CONTENTS Chapter XXXI.—The Manner of the Message. ^^^ The Style of the Sermons. Their Subject Matter. Preach-ing to Help Some Individual Church Member . . 272 Chapter XXXII.—These Busy Later Typical Week Day. A Typical Sunday. Mrs. to the Berkshires in Summer for Rest .... 279 Chapter XXXIII.—As a Lecturer. Wide Fame as a Lecturer. Date of Entrance on Lec-ture Platform. Number of Lectures Given, The Presson His Lectures. Some Instances of How His LecturesHave Helped People. Address at Banquet to PresidentMcKinley 289 Chapter XXXIV.— As a Writer. Rapid Method of Working. A Popular BiographicalWriter. The Books He has Written 303 Chapter XXXV.—A Home Tendered by Citizens of Philadelphia in Acknowl-edgment of Work as Public Benefactor 309 Chapter XXXVI.—The Path That Has Been Blazed. Problems That Need Solving. The Need of Men Able toSolve Them 312 Acres of Diamonds. , 317 ^• Personal Glimpses of Celebrated Men and Women. 345. MARTIN CONWELL CHAPTER I ANCESTRY John Conwell, the English Ancestor who fought for the Preser-vation of the English Language. Martin Conwell of Runaway Marriage. The Parents of Russell Conwell. WHEIT the N^orman-Frencli overran England andthreatened to sweep from out the island theEnglish language, many time-honored Englishcustoms, and all that those loyal early Britons held dear,a doughty Englishman, John Conwell, took up cudgelsin their defence. Long and bitter was the strugglehe waged to preserve the English language. Insidiousand steady were the encroachments of the Norman-French tongue. The storm centre was the Castle school,for John Conwell realized that the language of thechild of to-day is the language of the man of royal was the battle, for it was in those oldfeudal days of strong feeling and bitter, bloody par-tisanship. But this plucky Briton stood to his gunsun
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