Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements (Esprios Classics)

Russell Herman Conwell (February 15 1843 - December 6 1925) was an American Baptist minister orator philanthropist lawyer and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple and for his inspirational lecture Acres of Diamonds. The original inspiration for Acres of Diamonds his most famous essay occurred in 1869 when Conwell was traveling in the Middle East. The work began as a speech at first given wrote Conwell in 1913 before a reunion of my old comrades of the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment which served in the Civil War and in which I was captain. It was first published in book form in 1890 by the John Y. Huber Company of Philadelphia.