Dr. George R. Stuart: preacher and lecturer

              1910

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Dr. George R. Stuart


GEO. R. STUART: Southern Humorist
Subjects:

I.
Lop-Sided Folks (Humorous)
II.
Is Fun Divine or Devilish? (Humorous)
III.
Opportunity (Heroic)
IV.
Etchings from Human Nature
V.
My Stump Digger (Temperance)
VI.
Whence and Whither the Southern Moral Movement (Temperance)
VII.
The Christian Home, the Citadel of Our Nation (Moral)
VIII.
World's Bid for a Man (Moral)



PERSONAL COMMENTS
I regard George R. Stuart as one of the most remarkable products of our American pulpit.  For picturesque oratory, brilliancy of imagination, charm of rhetoric and heart-moving pathos I do not know that I have ever heard him surpassed.—Rev. Isaiah D. Hopwood, D. D., of Calvary Church, Newark, N. J.

There are few outstanding days in every man's life.  One of mine is the date on which I heard George Stuart.—Bishop Robert McIntyre, Los Angeles, Cal.

George R. Stuart is the best and most accomplished lecturer and preacher of his order in the United States of America.  In a wide survey on two continents I have never met his equal.—S. Parks Cadman, Pastor Central Cong.  Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.

I regard George Stuart as the greatest living evangelist.—Sam. P. Jones.

George R. Stuart is one of the brilliant lights of the Chautauqua platform.  In all his addresses brilliancy of wit is beautifully combined with wisdom of thought and sweetness of spirit.  His criticisms are sharp but just, pungent but not stinging.  He is a man of loving personality, of winsome manner, and of wholesome manliness in his entire character.—R. S. MacArthur, Pastor Calvary Baptist Church, New York City.

There is no man on the American platform today who is equal to George Stuart.  He is by far superior to all the popular lecturers in the cause of moral reform.—Len G. Broughton, Pastor Baptist Tabernacle, Atlanta, Ga.

It gives me the greatest pleasure to say that we have never had any one on our Winona platform who has been more enthusiastically received than Mr. Stuart.  I consider him one of the strongest men in his line I have ever met—J. Wilbur Chapman, Director Bible Conference, Winona Lake, Ind.




GEO. R. STUART: Southern Humorist
PERSONAL COMMENTS
Since Sam Jones has passed to his reward, Rev. George Stuart is without a peer in his native power to move people to smiles and to tears.  No man is so enthusiastically greeted by the people of the South and West, and his message of temperance and evangelism is as stirring as a bugle blast.  He is a hater of shams and a mighty power for righteousness.  Hear him.—C. L. Goodell.

George R. Stuart is one of the most unique and satisfactory platform speakers of our times.  I never saw a crowd he could not hold, and holding, help.  He is a man with a mission.  He talks of vital things in which all people are interested.  He has the flowing speech and fiery energy characteristic of southern oratory at its best.  He is witty, but never vulgar or even coarse.—Rev. W. L. Davidson, D. D., Washington, D. C.

I have just engaged George Stuart for the fifteen hundred young men at Armour Institute.  He will delight them.  I heard him three times and I feel that I have made the discovery of a really great master of assemblies.  I laughed until I was on the verge of collapse; then I was rescued by a wise remark worthy of a philosopher.  I wept like a little child as he led me through scenes of boyish delight or sympathy.  Then he lifted me to heights of moral vision which I hope I may never forsake.  Great is the mission of humor; great is the cleansing power of tears which are without regret; great is the realm of the noble life, and George Stuart has a passport to them all.—Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, D. D., Chicago, Ill.

George Stuart is all right.  He has Sam Jones' wit and Dr. Thomas Dixon's fire and fun.—R. V. Hunter, Pastor Central Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N. Y.



PRESS COMMENTS

For years Rev. George Stuart has been with Rev. Sam P. Jones in the evangelistic work, and is a good match for this marvelous reformer and preacher.  Mr. Stuart is a remarkable man.  His wealth of thought and expression is surprising.  His words burst from his soul like a great torrent from its mountain source and sweeps over his crowds, stirring them, moving them, uprooting them.  He is wise in the choice of illustrations and master in their use Sam Jones' genius was never better displayed than in the selection of this gifted and eloquent Tennesseean for his associate—
Atlanta Journal.


Mr. Stuart is the equal of any man ever heard in Augusta.  His sermon Sunday morning ought to be heard in the pulpits of the land.—
Augusta (Ga.) News.


Mr. Stuart preached at the First Baptist Church yesterday morning.  Chairs were placed in the aisles, and after making these provisions to accommodate the crowds, hundreds were turned away.  Such a condition of things has never been known in Atlanta.  Not even during the Moody meetings when the Exposition was at the flood tide and people were here from all parts of the land.—
Atlanta Constitution.


Rev. George R. Stuart preached at the Tabernacle at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.  The crowd began to flock toward the place as if a fire was going on.  He is very eloquent, and made some telling points.  He closed the sermon with a thrilling flight of eloquence.  The large crowd swept the ushers off their feet, and confused the committee of arrangements.—
The Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala.




GEO. R. STUART: Southern Humorist
PRESS COMMENTS

Rev. George R. Stuart, the co-laborer of Sam Jones, appeared at Staub's theater yesterday afternoon to a packed house.  The auditorium was quickly filled, the balcony was packed and the galleries had to be thrown open.  Many were turned away.—
Knoxville Tribune.


Fifteen hundred people wanted to hear George Stuart talk at the Stone Church last night, but the church under ordinary conditions will not hold over one thousand.  The conditions last night were extraordinary, and the ushers managed to squeeze two hundred more into the aisles.  That left three hundred out.  They went home disappointed.  Those who got in were grateful and listened to the impassioned speaker for more than an hour with intense interest.  Three times during the evening the enthusiasm of the audience overcame the character of the edifice, and caused them to interrupt him with clamorous applause.—
The Chattanooga Times.


He has the fluency of Talmage, the pathos of Moody and the humor of Sam Jones.—
Galveston (Tex.) News.


He has the power of Talmage to vividly picture startling truths, and the peculiar style of Sam Jones to drive the truths right home.  The largest audience that ever assembled in the auditorium for a lecture greeted him.—
The Daily Times, Van Wert, Ohio.


He declares the truth, clothed in humor, pathos, fire.  You laugh, you cry, you repent, and pray.  Few of us ever witnessed a wilder scene than we saw on Friday night.  So powerful his energy of speech, so convincing was the argument that the large audience—three thousand strong—waved their handkerchiefs at one climax, and yelled like soldiers scoring a victory in a hard-fought battle.  It was a memorable occasion.—
Midland Methodist, Nashville, Tenn.


The pulpit is Stuart's throne of power.  With a voice of wonderful flexibility and richness; with that familiar way with the jury which makes some lawyers irresistible; with a wealth of illustrations, taken together from personal experiences; with an earnestness white hot and flashing; with a humor heart-born and innocent, and a pathos which opens at once the tear ducts, he succeeds in bringing his congregation under a spell.—
Raleigh Christian Advocate, Raleigh, N. C.


At 6 o'clock every street leading to the church was filled with two throngs of people—one going to the church and the other going in the opposite direction, unable to gain admittance.  When Mr. Stuart reached the church he was unable to get so much as his little finger through the jam.  The ushers and officials were in despair, for the idea of shutting out the evangelist was a stunner.  Lift him up, some one shouted, and up he was lifted and carried over the heads of the multitude and deposited upon the platform.—
The Portsmouth Daily Blade, Portsmouth, Chio.

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