○  russell conwell : acres of diamonds  ○

elds, and gardens; that he had money at interest and was a wealthy and contented man. one day there visited that old persian farmer one of those ancient buddhist priests, one of the wise men of the east. he sat down by the fire and told the old farmer how this old world of ours was made. 

he said that this world was once a mere bank of fog, and that the almighty thrust his finger into this bank of fog, and began slowly to move his finger around, increasing the speed until at last he whirled this bank of fog into a solid ball of fire. then it went rolling through the universe, burning its way through other banks of fog, and condensed the moisture without, until it fell in floods of rain upon its hot surface, and cooled the outward crust. then the internal fires bursting outward through the crust threw up the mountains and hills, the valleys, the plains and prairies of this wonderful world of ours. if this internal molten mass came bursting out and cooled very quickly, it became granite; less quickly copper, less quickly silver, less quickly gold, and, after gold, diamonds were made. said the old priest, “a diamond is a congealed drop of sunlight.” now that is literally scientifically true, that a diamond is an actual deposit of carbon from the sun.

the old priest told ali hafed that if he had one diamond the size of his thumb he could purchase the county, and if the had a mine of diamonds he could place his children upon thrones through the influence of their great wealth. ali hafed heard all about diamonds, how much they were worth, and went to his bed that night a poor man. he had not lost anything, but he was poor because he was discontented, and discontented because he feared he was poor. he said, “i want a mine of diamonds,” and he lay awake all night. early in the morning he sought out the priest. i know by experience that a priest is very cross when awakened early in the morning, and when he shook that old priest out of his dreams, ali hafed s

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