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a lecture that has been delivered more than
5000 times by the Rev. Russell Conwell of Phila.
This truly remarkable man has sent nearly
1800 young people to College from the proceeds
of this one lecture. He keeps a list of those
he wishes to help educate and after subtracting
his actual expenses the remainder is sent
at once to the individual heading the list and
their name is crossed off, usually before he
retires for the night of the lecture. The obvious
moral of this discourse is that one need not
travel to distant lands nor look for help from
others, but “to make the best of the opportunities
within reach will often, if not invariably
bring success and contentment.” Mr. Cornwell
was a poor boy in a little N. E. town, and he
marched away in the early sixties, to fight
for the Stars and Stripes. After his return home
he became a minister and finally took charge
of a forlorn hope in Phila. Now, he not only
has a tremendous congregation but has been instrumental
in founding a large hospital and a
university. He has an almost uncanny power
of making people help to accomplish any
great philanthropic work he desires.

After a pleasant social time we adjourned
to the home of Louisa T. Brooke, on
10-15-1916, afterwards postponed until the 19th,
owing to the decease of our fellow member, -
Martha A. Holland –

Mary Bentley Thomas, Sec’y-