“’There’s many a man and woman, young and middle-aged, who is not satisfied with himself—­he wants to go on farther, he wants to learn more.  But his daily work won’t allow him to complete his education because of the inconvenient hours of the classes and lectures in other colleges.  And he comes to Temple, as there classes are held practically all day and for several hours at night.  The terms of the course at Temple College are reasonable, and thus many young men or women may prepare themselves for higher and more remunerative work, whereas they would not feel that they could afford to pay the tuition fee at some other institution.  The Temple University will be similar to the London University, a city university for busy persons.’”

Thus Temple College grows because it is needed.  And such an institution is needed in other cities as well as in Philadelphia.  This is but the pioneer.  It can have sister institutions wherever people want to study and Christian hearts want to help.

It grows also because in the heart of one man, its founder, is the bitter knowledge of how sorely such an institution is needed by those who want to study, and who himself works hand, heart and soul so that it shall never fail those who need it.

Says James M. Beck, the noted lawyer:  “There have been very wealthy men who, out of the abundance of their resources, have founded colleges, but I can hardly recall a case where a man, without abundant means, by mere force of character and intellectual energy, has both created and maintained an institution of this size and character,’”

Far back in the dim light of the centuries, Confucius wrote, “Give instruction unto those who cannot obtain it for themselves.”  This is the great and useful work the Temple College is doing and doing it nobly, a work that will count for untold good on future generations.

CHAPTER XXIX

THE SAMARITAN HOSPITAL

Beginning in Two Rooms.  Growth.  Number of Beds.  Management.  Temple Services Heard by Telephone.  Faith and Nationality of Those Cared For.

His pastoral work among his church members and others of the neighborhood brought to Dr. Conwell’s mind constantly the needs of the sick poor.  Scarcely a week passed that some one did not come to him for help for a loved one suffering from disease, but without means to secure proper medical aid.  Sick and poor—­that is a condition which sums up the height of human physical suffering—­the body racked with pain, burning with fever, yet day and night battling on in misery, without medical aid, without nursing, without any of the comforts that relieve pain.  Nor is the sick one the only sufferer.  Those who love him endure the keenest mental anguish as they stand by helpless, unable to raise a finger for his relief because they are poor.  Through the deep waters of both these experiences Dr. Conwell had himself passed.  He knew the anguish of heart