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Book, page 131 / 144 And after a pause he added: ``I do not attempt to send any young man enough for all his expenses. But I want to save him from bitterness, and each check will help. And, too,'' he concluded, na<i:>vely, in the vernacular, ``I don't want them to lay down on me!'' He told me that he made it clear that he did not wish to get returns or reports from this branch of his life-work, for it would take a great deal of time in watching and thinking and in the reading and writing of letters. ``But it is mainly,'' he went on, ``that I do not wish to hold over their heads the sense of obligation.'' When I suggested that this was surely an example of bread cast upon the waters that could not return, he was silent for a little and then said, thoughtfully: ``As one gets on in years there is satisfaction in doing a thing for the sake of doing it. The bread returns in the sense of effort made.'' On a recent trip through Minnesota he was positively upset, so his secretary told me, through being recognized on a train by a young man who had been helped through ``Acres of Diamonds,'' and who, finding that this was really Dr. Conwell, eagerly brought his wife to join him in most fervent thanks for his assistance. Both the husband and his wife were so emotionally overcome that it quite overcame Dr. Conwell himself. The lecture, to quote the noble words of Dr. Conwell himself, is designed to help ``every person, of either sex, who cherishes the high resolve of sustaining a career of usefulness and honor.'' It is a lecture of helpfulness. And it is a lecture, when given with Conwell's voice and face and manner, that is full of fascination. And yet it is
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