This is also the greatest testimonial that can be given to the merit of his work.

The great heart of the reading public is an unprejudiced critic.

"Is not the greatest voice the one to which the greatest number of hearts listen with pleasure ?" When a man has attained to great eminence under adverse circumstances we sometimes wonder to what heights he might have climbed under conditions more favorable.

Who can tell?
It is just as easy to say what the young man of twenty will be when a matured man of forty.

The boy of poverty makes a man of power while the boy nursed in the lap of luxury makes a man of uneventful life, and, again, a life started with a handicap remains so through its possible three score years and ten and the life begun with advantages multiplies its talents ten and a hundred fold.
So, after all, is not the heart of man the real man and is it not the guiding star of his ambition, his will, his determination, his conscience?
Harold Bell Wright, the second of four sons, was born May 4, 1872, in Rome, Oneida County, New York.