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Season 3 Episode 35: The Armour-Bearer

The moving story behind the founding of temple University in Philadelphia is told. The drama will relate how Russell Con well, founder of the university, abandoned a lucrative law practice to become a minister and a great humanitarian, as a result of the death of his armour-bearer in the Civil war. Conwell was a Union army officer when his armour-bearer, a young lad named Johnny Ring, died. Since the boy had hoped to become a minister and preacher after the war, Conwell decided to devote his own life to these objectives, as a testimonial to the boy's, high moral spirit.

Genre:

Drama

Seasons:

61

Episodes:

364

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1951

IMDb:

8.8