Russell HConwell, founder of the institutional church in America, the work and the man . sense, the knowledge of theworld, of the traveler and writer. Every experience ofhis own life he probed for help and light on this greatwork. Nothing was done haphazard. He studied thewants of men. He clearly saw the need. He calmly-surveyed the field, then he went to work with practicalcommon sense to fill it, filling his people with the en-thusiasm and the faith that led him, doing with a willall there was to do, and then leaving the rest with did he think of himself, of how he might lightenhis
Russell HConwell, founder of the institutional church in America, the work and the man . sense, the knowledge of theworld, of the traveler and writer. Every experience ofhis own life he probed for help and light on this greatwork. Nothing was done haphazard. He studied thewants of men. He clearly saw the need. He calmly-surveyed the field, then he went to work with practicalcommon sense to fill it, filling his people with the en-thusiasm and the faith that led him, doing with a willall there was to do, and then leaving the rest with did he think of himself, of how he might lightenhis tasks, give himself a little more leisure or rest. Thework needing to be done and how to do it was his studyday and night. A reporter of the Philadelphia Press once askedDr. George A. Peltz, the associate pastor of GraceChurch, if you were called upon to express in threewords the secret of the mysterious power that has raisedGrace Church from almost nothing to a membership ofmore than three thousand, that has built this Temple,founded a college, opened a hospital, and set every man,. This Picture Shows the Four Speaking Tubes Whicli Connect byTelephone with the Samaritan Hospital THE MAN AND THE WORK 161 woman and child in the congregation to working, whatwould be your answer ? Sanctified common sense, was the Doctors un-hesitating reply. Rev. F. B. Meyer, in speaking on Twentieth Cen-tury Evangelism, at Bradford, England, in 1902, madea plea for the institutional church, the wide outlook,more elastic methods, greater eagerness to reach and winoutsiders, more varied service on the part of Christianpeople, that the minister of any place of worship shouldbecome the recognized friend of the entire district inwhich his chapel is placed. The elastic method is characteristic of the workof The Temple. ^Vhen Dr. Conwell first came to GraceChurch, he organized four societies — the Ladies AidSociety, the Business Mens Union, the Young WomensAssociation, the Young Mens Association. Int
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