J. Everist Cathell

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J. EVERIST CATHELL

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J. Everist Cathell—No better introduction to the work of Dr. Cathell could be given than the following splendid personal testimonials:

JAMES S. CLARKSON, United States Customs Service, Port of New York—I am delighted to know that you, with your abundant endowment of speech and power and trained knowledge of human nature and human need, are going into the Chautauqua work.  I know that you will carry new strength to the hearts of all the thousands who shall hear you, that you will give inspiration not only to the young who are looking upward for example, but to the many weary and despondent among those who shall hear you, or those of that class who are always looking on the dark side of life and walking in the shadow.  You have the great gift of encouragement and inspiration.

BISHOP MORRISON, of Iowa—I hear that you propose to go for a time on the lecture platform.  I feel sure that you will meet with great success as a lecturer.  Your many gifts have made you always helpful and interesting in the pulpit, but the lecture platform will give you an opportunity to deal with a class of subjects which you might hesitate to make themes for sermons, but for the consideration of which you are peculiarly fitted.  Here, too, your gifts of wit and humor will find an appreciative audience.

STRICKLAND W. GILLILAN, Offagin, Onagin, Gonagin, Finnigin—I am supremely pleased to know you have Dr. Cathell in the harness.  Ever since I used to sing in his vested choir on Sundays and to have delightful association with him nearly all the week-days—when he preached big sermons and I city-edited a little newspaper in Richmond, Ind., years ago—I have been wondering why he, with his splendid messages and his matchless methods of delivering them, did not seek the larger hearing to be had in the lecture field.  He is being good to the world in letting it have him.  I regard his public utterances, aside from their signal merits in substance and power, the most perfect lessons in flawless English rhetoric that I have ever heard or read.

EDWARD R. MEEK, U. S. District Judge, Dallas, Texas—I have learned that Dr. J. Everist Cathell is to go on the lecture platform.  This is good news.  He should belong to the American public rather than to a single parish or diocese.  He is a man of rare intellectual power, of catholic spirit and broad sympathies.  It has been my good fortune to hear many of the most gifted men in the American Church.  In profoundity and originality of thought, lucidity of style and eloquence of delivery, Dr. Cathell ranks with the first of them.  He is mature in his power, and his treatment of subjects reveals research and reflection brought to happy fruition.  I hope Texas, and the South, may have the good fortune to hear him.

RIGHT REVEREND MONSIGNOR FLAVIN, D. D.—I am pleased to hear that my close neighbor and good friend Dr. Cathell intends entering the lecture field for which he is eminently qualified.  He is a profound scholar and a most interesting speaker.  He has the peculiar facility of illustrating his subject by anecdotes full of wit and humor, so as to captivate his audience, and keep their minds concentrated on the principles which he inculcates.  The Bureau that engages his services may be congratulated on having a most eloquent and forcible orator.


RICHARD A. JACKSON, First Vice-President and General Solicitor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.—I have known Doctor Cathell for many years.  Endowed by Nature with a brilliant mind, eloquence and humor, a rich voice and a strong and attractive personality, he has developed these gifts by years of study and application.  He should, and in my judgment will, be a star of the first magnitude on the lecture platform.

A. B. STORMS, President Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts—Dr. Cathell has been known to me somewhat intimately for seven years.  I not only esteem his friendship, but I admire his forceful personality.  None can fail to listen when he speaks, whether from the pulpit or from the platform.  He has a voice of rich and sympathetic fibre, his sympathies are warm, his interest in men genuine, his intelligence and acumen clear and penetrating, his ideas original yet sane and sound.  He will be and is a distinct and notable voice on the platform, as he has been and is in the pulpit.

RT. REV. S. C. EDSALL, D. D., The General Convention House of Bishops, Richmond, Virginia—I am greatly interested to know that Rev. J. Everist Cathell, S. T. D., is to go upon the lecture platform; and feel that not only will he be a speaker who will attract the intense interest of his audiences, but he will instruct and inspire them.  Gifted with a splendid voice, with an irresistable humor which sparkles spontaneously, and a power of genuine and learned eloquence, I feel sure that he will be a power for good on the platform.

JOHN S. NOLLEN, President Lake Forest College—It is a rare thing these days to find in a public speaker the combination of such qualities as power and sympathy, dignity and humor, learning and eloquence, high culture and the graces of the orator.  Dr. J. Everist Cathell has these qualities in an unusual degree.  He cannot fail to please his audience, he is sure to appeal powerfully to their intelligence and their emotions, and to make his lectures an uplifting and educative influence.

REV. NASSAU S. STEPHENS, Rector St. George's Church, Newport, Rhode Island—I understand that the Rev. J. Everist Cathell, S. T. D., is to give a course of lectures upon popular and living subjects.  With his well equipped mind, knowledge of human nature and perfect style of English, any subject he selects will be treated in a way to instruct and attract an audience.  Originality, brilliancy and point will mark all that he does from the lecture platform.

DANIEL W. COMSTOCK, Judge Appellate Court of Indiana—It has been my privilege to listen, and always with pleasure, to Dr. Cathell.  The daily press has largely taken the place of the public speaker, yet the people are still moved by the graces of oratory.  With these he is richly endowed: a matchless voice, an easy grace, quick fancy, delightful humor, ready utterance, and the equipments of wide observation and extensive reading all unite to make him effective on the lecture platform.  He has been especially happy in the selection of subjects upon which he will speak.  In securing his services, the Lyceum Bureau has been most fortunate.

RABBI SONNESCHEIN, St. Louis—Rev. Dr. Everist Cathell possesses the magnetism of scholarly earnestness, of broad-brimmed native patriotism and of that eloquence which only nature and humanity offer as the bread-stuff for all classic as well as modern free intellect.  He is one of the most popular and most distinguished citizens of Iowa.


RT. REV. JOHN HAZEN WHITE, D. D.—The information has just reached me that Dr. Cathell is about to begin a career as a public lecturer.  I am delighted, and predict for him a conspicuous success.  Our many years of close friendship convince me that he is admirably equipped for a service which will bring him in touch with large audiences of cultivated people who cannot fail to be charmed and instructed by his happy and inspiring way of putting things.  His never failing good humor is so contagious and his fund of anecdote and illustration so rich, that I feel quite sure that delightful entertainment will be derived from his lectures.

GEORGE E. MACLEAN, President State University of Iowa—In the highest sense in which it is true of the poet, it is also true that the orator is born, not made.  The Rev. J. Everist Cathell is of the highest type of orators.  Soul, voice, eye, and personal presence at once proclaim the orator in him.  To the advantages of nature he adds those of acquirement and art.  By scholastic training in the queen of sciences, as Bacon called theology, and by experience in the first and greatest profession, that of the ministry, Dr. Cathell is prepared to illuminate the lecture platform.

HON. H. E. DEEMER, Judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa—The Reverend Doctor Cathell, who has recently entered the lecture field, has a most pleasing personality, and is in every sense a sane and strong man.  He possesses marked qualifications for success in his new field; is a large man physically and intellectually, has a fine voice, fine dramatic ability, unusual command of language, that indescribable something which, for want of a better term, we call personal charm or magnetism, a wit or cleverness which always attracts attention, and withal a message for those who think and care for instruction as well as entertainment.

HOMER A. MILLER, Cashier Des Moines Savings Bank, Des Moines, Iowa—I have learned from The Register and Leader that the Rev.  Dr. J. Everist Cathell is about to enter the field of popular lectures, and that his name is listed for engagements.  From my knowledge of his gifts of mind, both natural and acquired, his careful study, his broad and varied information, and his talent for putting his thoughts before his hearers in rich and powerful language, I believe his lectures will take high rank among those already known to fame.  I do not entertain a doubt of his complete success.

JESSE S. REEVES, Professor, Dartmouth College—I have known the Rev. Dr. Cathell for more than fifteen years and always during that period have I considered it a great privilege to hear him speak, both in the pulpit and out of it.  I have never heard any one conduct the services of the church with more beauty, grace and dignity of voice and utterance than he has at his command.  As a public speaker he is not only entertaining in the highest degree, but he always has something to say which is worth while.  The things he says are good and he says them marvelously well.  His worth in the popular lecture field will, I have no doubt, be instructive, interesting and suggestive.  He is a wonderful speaker.



SUBJECTS:

Reminiscences of the Civil War and Its Personnel
Jews and Jewels
Some Pleasantries of a Serious Calling
The Meaning of Education



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