J. Everist Cathell, S.T.D: lecturer

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J. EVERIST CATHELL, S.T.D. Lecturer
A WHITE ATTRACTION

Nicholson Press, Richmond, Indiana



J. EVERIST CATHELL, S.T.D. LECTURER
OF RICHMOND, INDIANA

SUBJECTS OF LECTURES

Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Reminiscences of the Civil War and its Personnel
Oratory and Orators
Ultimate Christianity in America
The Meaning of Education
Decisiveness and Fidelity



PERSONAL AND PRESS COMMENDATIONS

FROM THE PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.
I have known Rev. J. Everist Cathell, D. D., of Richmond, Indiana, for many years, and I esteem him most highly.

I feel quite sure that if he consents to give his time and strength for a series of lectures his intellectual ability and kindly humor and eloquence of speech will secure him abundant success.

DANIEL S. TUTTLE, Bishop of Missouri.



THE RT. REV. T. N. MORRISON, D. D., Bishop of Iowa.
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.



THE RT. REV. L. R. BREWER, D. D., Bishop of Montana.
I have know the Reverend J. Everist Cathell for more than twenty years.  He possess qualities which, I am sure, will make him successful on the lecture platform.  He has a wonderfully rich and well modulated voice.  He has excellent intellectual ability.  He is possessed of wit and humor, which add to his attractiveness as a speaker.  His reading is extensive, and he is a finished writer.  I am sure his lectures will be instructive and inspiring, amusing and entertaining.

L. R. BREWER.



FROM HON. LESLIE M. SHAW, Former Secretary of United States Treasury.
I have known Dr. J. Everist Cathell more than ten years, and after listening to him repeatedly, I believe he can conduct the Episcopal service with greater grace, more feeling and in every way more satisfactorily, than any other man living.  He is a good thinker and his mind runs true.  There is no yellow in his make-up and no guile in his bosom.  In addition, he is a most interesting speaker, and an effective orator in the better sense of the term.  Public speakers are not always competent to instruct, and none can instruct if they fail to interest.  Dr. Cathell will interest his hearers and instruct them also, and the instruction he imparts will be wholesome.

Philadelphia, Pa.

L. M. SHAW.



PRESIDENT HILL M. BELL, Drake University.
It is not too much to say that no one has been received more enthusiastically by the students and faculty of Drake University than Dr. J. Everist Cathell, in every one of his numerous strong addresses and lectures with which he has kindly favored us at different times in the past.  There is special and urgent need of just such messages as he delivers with such great acceptability.

HILL M. BELL.



REV. DR. W. R. HUNTINGTON, Late Rector Grace Church, New York.
My Dear Dr. Cathell—If I thought that your mounting the platform meant your quitting the pulpit, I should hesitate a long time before saying that I approved of the step; but, if I understand your intention, it is to relinquish for a time the engrossing duties of a pastorate, while continuing, as opportunity may offer, to exercise the function of a preacher.  That you will succeed as a lecturer, I have not the slightest doubt, and I shall watch your career in that capacity with keen interest.  If you decide to take up, as you intimate your intention of doing, the grave and pressing subject of Christian Unity, you will be doing your fellow countrymen a service, the value of which is quite impossible to estimate.  This subject has too long been shut up in ecclesiastic circles.  It needs an airing, and I know that you will give it a thorough one.  God bless you.

Faithfully yours,
W. R. HUNTINGTON.




LOU J. BEAUCHAMP.
Hamilton, Ohio.

There are many lectures on Abraham Lincoln, given by many notable persons, but it seems to me that the lecture by Dr. J. Everist Cathell on that subject gives us pre-eminently the real Lincoln, the man of the tender heart as well as the great, strong soul, the man who was so tenderly human, and yet so superhuman in many of his attributes—as none of the other lecturers seem to do.  Dr. Cathell thrills with much of his story of the great Commoner's public life, yet before you are aware of it, the tears are flowing as though the one wept for was a close personal friend just passed away.



THE RODEPH SHALOM CONGREGATION, Pittsburg, Pa.
To Whom It May Concern:

It was my pleasure and privilege to listen the other night to a lecture on Abraham Lincoln by the Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell, of Richmond, Indiana.  It was a masterpiece of oratory and a superb piece of platform work in every respect.  Since hearing this gifted speaker, I have recommended him to all my neighbors and friends as one of the greatest speakers I have ever had the pleasure to hear.  I know of no more sincere appreciation of this splendid orator than to say that, among the first men selected for the Temple Lecture Course for the season of 1910–11 was he who so greatly delighted us this season.

J. LEONARD LEVY.



GOODWYN INSTITUTE Memphis, Tenn.
Rev. J. Everist Cathell:

My Dear Dr. Cathell—I write to express my appreciation of the splendid lecture you gave our audience in Goodwyn Institute Monday night on Oratory and Orators.  I consider it a privilege to have met you, and am glad that Goodwyn Institute had the opportunity of presenting your lecture to one of our Memphis audiences.  With best wishes for your continued success, I beg to remain,

Sincerely yours,
C. C. OGILVIE, Superintendent.



DEAN HODGES, OF THE EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
Dr. Cathell combines in a rare way the qualities of eloquence, discretion, humor and correctness, which make a successful lecturer.  They who hear him will find it is worth while.  They will go away both pleased and profited.

GEORGE HODGES.



PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, EARLHAM COLLEGE
Richmond, Indiana.

The faculty and students of Earlham College frequently have opportunity to listen to lectures and addresses of Dr. J. Everist Cathell.  It was with much expectancy, therefore, that they came together on the morning of the twelfth instant to hear his new lecture on Daniel Webster.  From the very first Dr. Cathell had his audience under the spell of his eloquent portrayal of the life and work of America's greatest orator.  With faultless English and with keen penetration into the mainsprings of Webster's power, he showed how the hand of God had shaped events and men, so that that power might be used most effectively in carrying out His will in the history of this Republic.  This lecture should be heard throughout our entire country for it will grip men's minds and hearts, and make them appreciate afresh the privileges of American citizenship and Christian civilization.

Very cordially,
ROBT. L. KELLY.



HON. 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 the subjects upon which he will speak.  In securing his services, the Lyceum Bureaus have been most fortunate.



INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS TEACHERS.
I have had the pleasure of listening to a lecture on Abraham Lincoln by Dr. J. Everist Cathell.  Never before had Abraham Lincoln been anything to me more than an historical character.  I hope every school boy and girl in our land may hear this lecture.  Nothing can kindle a greater love of country than to hear a lecture like this.  In listening to this lecture, the lecturer was entirely forgotten, so rapt became the listener in the great subject.  This is the highest tribute I can offer.  The lecture is a masterpiece, delivered with matchless eloquence, in faultless English.

J. F. THOMPSON, Secretary.



GEORGE E. MAC LEAN, LL.D., 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 this 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.

GEORGE E. MACLEAN.



CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
Indiana invaded Chicago last night and acquired by annexation that portion of the city which is occupied by the Auditorium Annex Hotel in general, and in particular that part of the hotel which is designated as the gold banquet room.  At least annexation was declared by the five hnudred members of the Indiana Society of Chicago, who still acknowledge allegiance to the Hoosier State, for the occasion of the fourth annual banquet of the society.  Of the good things eatable and convivial there were many and more; but of good things expressible there was most, some of the most choice coming from George Ade, George Barr McCutcheon, Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell, Meredith Nicholson and from Addison C. Harris, former U. S. Ambassador to Austria.  * * * Dr. Cathell brings a new face to the ranks of oratory, although he is a well known and eminent clergyman of the Episcopal Church.  Possessed of a wonderfully magnetic personality, a voice of unusual range, power and charm, a learning which gives him immediate rank as a literary and historic scholar and a fund of practical
 and artistic illustrations gathered through many years of human study and experience, told with unconscious but genuine dramatic talent—Dr. Cathell was listened to last night with unusual degrees of surprise, approval and commendation.  He is the newest addition to the list of gifted sons of Indiana, and it is easy to predict for him the popular esteem of cultivated lovers of originality and good literary form.



RT. REV. S. C. EDSALL, D. D., Bishop of Minnesota.
I am greatly interested to know that Rev. J. Everist Cathell, S. T. D., is 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 irresistible 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.



PROFESSOR JESSE S. REEVES, Ph. D., Of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
I have known the Reverend Doctor 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 before heard any one conduct the services of the Church with such beauty, grace and dignity of voice and utterance as 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 work in the popular lecture field will, I have no doubt, be instructive, interesting, suggestive and effective.  Those who will be fortunate enough to hear him are to be congratulated.

JESSE S. REEVES, Formerly Assistant Professor of Political Science in Dartmouth College.  Now, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.



STATEMENT OF CHARLES H. JOSEPH, Vice-Chairman of Temple Course, Pittsburg, Pa., Concerning the Lecture of J. Everist Cathell on Lincoln.
Pittsburg, Pa.

No other Lecture Course in America has enjoyed the presence of so many noted men and women as the Temple Course of Pittsburg.  Dolliver, Watterson, Griggs, Folk, Johnson, Mrs. Booth, Lorado Taft, Gov. Glenn. Booker T. Washington, and others of like standing have spoken for us, but I must say that none has appealed to our audience with as much interest as Dr. J. Everist Cathell in his lecture on Lincoln on February 10.  For over two hours our audience, one of the most critical in the country, was thrilled and entertained by Dr. Cathell's remarkably human story of the lights and shadows in the life of the great emancipator.  It was the best Lincoln lecture ever heard in Pittsburg, and the highest evidence of our appreciation is shown in the fact that Dr. Cathell was the first lecturer engaged in our course for next season.



KENYON COLLEGE Rooms of the President.
Dr. J. Everist Cathell lectured before Kenyon College on the subject of Abraham Lincoln.  The lecture was delivered on the Larwill foundation and deeply impressed the audience.  Dr. Cathell is an interesting and effective speaker and has his subject thoroughly in hand.  His information is extensive, and personal reminiscence and experience add to the interest of his tribute.  The treatment of Lincoln's character and work must prove interesting and inspiring to any American audience.

WILLIAM F. PEIRCE.



HON. JOHN BELL KEEBLE, President Monteagle Assembly.
I had the pleasure of hearing the lecture on Abraham Lincoln, delivered by Dr. J. Everist Cathell at the Monteagle Assembly this summer.  Dr. Cathell presented in a forceful way the heart side of Lincoln.  Such a treatment of this phase of Lincoln would not be possible except from a man who had had personal contact with him.  I am sure that the people of the South especially, will be glad to hear this expression of a great phase of a great man's character.



REV. S. R. LYONS, D. D., Pastor Reid Memorial Church, Richmond, Ind.
The lecture by Dr. J. Everist Cathell, last night, at the English Lutheran Church on Oratory and Orators, I count a fine specimen of what the lecture platform ought to furnish.  He gave us a fine definition of a great art; his illustrations brought us close to the heart of some of the world's great orators; he himself, the while, being the true orator.  Best of all was the uplift, the inspiration of it, giving us what no money can buy, the strength and beauty of another man's spirit.



STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BOWLING GREEN, KY. H. H. Cherry, President.
Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell gave us a splendid lecture last night.  We have heard here many of of the most celebrated lecturers of the age.  Dr. Cathell is the peer of any I have ever heard.  His lecture on Lincoln is a masterpiece in conception, diction and delivery.

J. M. GUILLIAMS, Professor of English.



WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE. Assembly Chamber, Madison.
This city was favored, last evening, with a literary treat of unusual merit.  Dr. J. Everist Cathell, of Richmond, Indiana, spoke for over two hours before a large and appreciative audience on the subject of Abraham Lincoln, and he held his audience fascinated by his realistic descriptions of the many traits of character of our martyred president.  Dr. Cathell possesses the rare gifts of the natural orator—entertaining, brilliant, dramatic and witty.  Coupled with these qualities, he has a deep human sympathy which gives him rank among America's greatest platform speakers.  Dr. Cathell became so realistic in his vivid portrayal of Lincoln's character, citing many personal reminiscences, that the audience was made to feel the living presence of his great subject.  I consider his lecture among the best that I have ever heard, bringing, as he did, the great Commoner close to the hearts of all of us in admiration, sympathy, communion.

GEO. P. HAMBRECHT.



ST. KATHARINE'S SCHOOL. Davenport, Iowa.
It is not often that the faculty and pupils of St. Katharine's School have the pleasure of listening to a lecture of such absorbing interest and brilliant intellectuality as that of the Rev. J. Everist Cathell on Abraham Lincoln.  We had been thrilled often before with the wonderful part
 in history played by Lincoln, but it was left for Dr. Cathell to make us personally and intimately acquainted with one of the greatest heroes of American history.  Aside from the pleasure derived from such an evening, we believe that any student would learn more of history and of good English in the hour or so of Dr. Cathell's lecture than in many weeks of dry class-room recitations.  We hope it may be our good fortune to hear Dr. Cathell's lectures on his other subjects.

HENRIETTA CATTELL, Director of Studies, St. Katharine's School.



THE 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 can not 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 rich illustration so rich, that I feel quite sure that delightful entertainment will be derived from his lectures.



RABBI SONNESCHEIN, ST. LOUIS.
Rev. Dr. J. 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.



JOHN S. NOLLEN, Ph. D., PRESIDENT LAKE FOREST COLLEGE.
It is a rare thing in 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 can not fail to please his audiences, he is sure to appeal powerfully to their intelligence and their emotions, and to make his lectures an uplifting and educative influence.

JOHN S. NOLLEN.



INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL William W. Parsons, President, Terre Haute, Ind.
Dr. J. Everist Cathell, of Richmond, Indiana, delivered the commencement address at the Indiana State Normal School last June.  His subject was Decisiveness and Fidelity.  The audience consisted of our student-body, the faculty, the Board of Trustees and a large number of representative citizens.  The address was listened to with close attention throughout its delivery, and was received with marks of approval by the audience.  Doctor Cathell is himself deeply interested in his subject; he speaks with judicious deliberation and right-minded earnestness, and presents the subject-matter of his addresses in the most attractive and effective manner. This is the only occasion on which I have heard him speak, but I have read a number of newspaper clippings and testimonials from a large number of prominent men, all speaking in the highest terms of his platform work in many places.  He impresses me as a man devoted to the highest and the best interests of society, and as one who wishes to instruct and inspire, as well as entertain his audiences.

WM. W. PARSONS.



RHODE ISLAND STATE COLLEGE.
Kingston.

My Dear Dr. Cathell—Your lecture to us on the evening of the 15th was uplifting.  We found our students next morning in the library consulting books on Lincoln.  Not a day has passed without some reference to the lecture and lecturer.

You succeeded in impressing deeply upon the minds of these young men the greatness of Lincoln's character, and thereby, I believe, gave them a strong impulse towards worthiness in themselves.

Very truly yours,
WILLIAM S. SPENCER.



CHIEF JUSTICE DEEMER, 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 indescribably 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.



UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C.
I have known the Rev. J. Everist Cathell for many years as an able and eloquent clergyman.  His appearance on the lecture platform adds a new interest to the Lyceum world.  He is a man of intellect, finely equipped to inspire and lead the thought of these times, with no elements of sensationalism in his makeup.  The message which he brings to the people reflects the profound study of a lifetime of those problems with which modern society has to deal.  As has been beautifully said of the late President McKinley, Dr. Cathell is a helper as well as a leader of men.

J. P. DOLLIVER.



KENYON COLLEGE.  Department of English.
For almost two hours the audience gave the closest attention to Dr. Cathell's lecture before the students and citizens of Gambier.  By exposition, dramatic description and personal narrative Dr. Cathell aroused an interest attaching to an unusual point of view, for he introduced surprising evidence regarding Lincoln and his times, and enforced it eloquently.  The lecture is sure to stir up wholesome interest and debate, and no one can hear it without feeling a compelling desire to read widely about Lincoln.

W. P. REEVES.



EARLHAM COLLEGE.  Department of History and Political Science.  Harlow Lindley, Richmond, Indiana.
To one interested in the correct presentation of historic facts for the background of a popular lecture, Dr. Cathell's careful study and historic accuracy must be a source of great satisfaction.  I have never known a better illustration of this than displayed in his comprehensive lecture on Daniel Webster.

HARLOW LINDLEY.




N. E. KENDALL, SIXTH DISTRICT IOWA, House of Representatives U. S. Washington, D. C.
I have heard Dr. Cathell's lecture on Abraham Lincoln, and I regard it as a masterpiece.  The subject matter is intensely interesting and his delivery is unusually attractive.

N E. KENDALL.



THE REV. ALFRED WILSON GRIFFIN, Chaplain of Kemper Hall School.
Kenosha, Wis.

We are still talking of your visit to Kemper Hall and of the pleasure and profit we derived from your lecture and your sermon on Sunday.  Not often in our School Lecture Course have the subject and the speaker combined to furnish an evening of such an intense and absorbing interest as in your lecture on Abraham Lincoln.  Your personal recollection of him made him seem so much more real than any of us had ever been able to conceive of him.  A student audience, and especially of girls and young women, is not the least difficult that a lecturer may be called upon to face; but you were able to hold the attention and interest of even the little girls in the front row, and that certainly was quite a triumph for you.  I am sure that all the girls will be most grateful as the years pass that they were privileged to get at first-hand from an eye-witness so clear and sympathetic and real an estimate of the life and character of the greatest American—Abraham Lincoln.



BOWLING GREEN (KY.) TIMES-JOURNAL
There was a large audience at Vanmeter Hall last night to hear Dr. J. Everist Cathell's lecture on Abraham Lincoln.  It was a scholarly effort, replete with valuable information, enlivened with humor, and delighted the audience immensely.  The concensus of opinion is that Dr. Cathell is one of the most powerful, fascinating and irresistible platform orators ever heard in this old college town.



REV. A. B. STORMS, D. D., Central Avenue M. E. Church, Indianapolis.
Dr. Cathell has been known to me somewhat intimately for seven years.  I not only esteem his friendship, but I admire his forceful personality.  No one 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.



DR. EDWARD M. CRANE, Committee on Lecture Course.
Hardwick, Vt.

Dr. J. Everist Cathell:

Dear Sir—I can not refrain from communicating to you the verdict of our people on your lecture.  A Character Study of Abraham Lincoln, which you gave here last week.  You lectured to an audience that has heard most of the leading orators before the American public for more than forty years, and which is dissatisfied with any short of the best.

They have placed you in their estimation among that class, and pronounce your lecture equal to the best.  Many have requested that we engage you for a return date, which we will undoubtedly do in the near future.

EDWARD M. CRANE, M. D.



RT. REV. MONSIGNOR FLAVIN, D. D., Apostolic Protonotary, Des Moines, Iowa.
I am pleased to hear that my close neighbor and good friend, Dr. Cathell, is 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 Bureaus that engage his services may be congratulated on having a most eloquent and forcible orator.



TRINITY CHURCH, Newport, R. I.
My Dear Doctor Cathell:

It was a privilege, as well as a pleasure, to hear your new lecture on Ultimate Christianity in America.  So forcefull and illuminating a presentation of the problem that faces the religious forces of America must do incalculable good.  I trust you may have a wide hearing.

STANLEY C. HUGHES.



HON. 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 best 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.



MEMPHIS (TENN.) COMMERCIAL-APPEAL
The Commercial-Appeal, in commenting upon the lecture of Dr. Cathell on Oratory and Orators at the Goodwyn Institute of that city, spoke as follows: Dr. Cathell is a very interesting speaker.  His whole heart and his every effort is centered on his subject.  His plea for the preservation of the old school of oratory was a forceful one.  His history of oratory, dealing with it from the time the world was created until the present day, is an ample proof of years of deep study.  Dr. Cathell is full of originality.  His stories, for the greater part, have a touch of pathos which wins the hearts of his hearers and enlists their sympathy.



REV. DR. SLATTERY, Rector Grace Church, New York City.
I have learned that the Rev. J. Everist Cathell, D. D., is a public lecturer.  I am always glad, in any body of which we are both members, when he rises to speak, for his racy, concise arguments always illuminate the subject under consideration.  So I know with what delight and profit the audiences to whom he will lecture will listen to him.  With a clear mind he unites a kind heart and robust common-sense.  I have no doubt of the benefit which his lectures will bring to any community.  He will not only entertain, he will help.

CHARLES LEWIS SLATTERY.




GENERAL SECRETARY Y. M. C. A.
New Bedford, Mass.

Mr. K. M. White, Boston, Mass.:

Dear Sir—There is no discount on Dr. J. Everist Cathell, of Richmond, Indiana.  In his lecture before our great audience of 2,000 men last Sunday afternoon in the New Bedford Theatre, he held them nearly two hours in his Character Sketches and Personal Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln.  Men sat as if riveted to their seats, and when its speaker had concluded, seemed loathe to move out of the theatre.  The speaker, his subject, and his charming manner have been the chief topic of conversation ever since he left.  This lecture of Dr. Cathell's should be heard by every young man throughout the land.

Yours very truly,
E. C. CASTER.



HON. JAMES G. BERRYHILL.
I have known Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell during the entire fifteen years of his rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Des Moines, and have heard a number of his sermons, lectures and short addresses.  In his chosen field he stands in the first rank.  He is magnificently equipped for the lecture field, endowed as he is with rare intellectual and personal gifts.  His fund of humor and facility of expression enable him to entertain his hearers as well as instruct and inspire them.

JAMES G. BERRYHILL



PADUCAH (KY.) SUN
Abraham Lincoln, the Keystone of the American Historical Arch, was the subject of a most admirable and illuminating lecture at the Chautauqua pavilion last evening by Dr. J. Everist Cathell, of Richmond, Indiana.  His audience was among the best since the Chautauqua opened, and although he brought a northern subject into a southern community, he was most cordially received.  Dr. Cathell began by picturing the setting for Lincolns early life, the beautiful rural districts of Kentucky, his humble origin, his scanty facilities for self-improvement, his ungainly natural endowments, and all of those adverse conditions which are more or less familiar to every American.  Then he showed Lincoln surmounting each obstacle in the way of the expression of his innate character, coming out of an environment comparable to the middle ages, into a complete sympathy with modern civilization at fifty years of age.  How the economic phase of slavery gained the ascendancy in the minds of the southern half of the republic, among a people of no less natural spirituality than the north, was graphically described, and how Lincoln saw the fatality of a house divided against itself and strove ever to preserve the union, was clearly portrayed.  Lincoln inaugurated his administration with his own party divided against itself as to policy, and by the giant strength of his own splendid common sense he guided the ship of state through its worst civil gale.  Southern sentiment has always felt kindly toward Lincoln, and lectures like Dr. Cathells tend more to eliminate sectional feeling.



WILLIAM C. HANSON District Superintendent Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas Conference.
The Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell delighted and pleased the patrons of the Clay Center Chautauqua with his lecture, Oratory and Orators.  Dr. Cathell will easily take place in the first ranks of the platform talent of the present day.

WILLIAM C. HANSON, President Clay Center Chautauqua. Clay Center, Kansas



PASTOR FIRST M. E. CHURCH, Greenfield, Ohio.
Rev. J. Everist Cathell, S. T. D., Richmond, Indiana:

You came to our church under adverse circumstances.  A strong entertainment company had been largely advertised, and at the last they failed us.  And you, an utter stranger, were put on the program in their place.  Of course, we were disappointed at the failure of this company, and we feared the people would be.  But what a lecture you gave us!  And what an inspiration in the presentation of it!  We had read much about Abraham Lincoln, and heard much, but as the result of your lecture, we saw a new Lincoln, and got new views of this great, broad-minded and sympathetic man.  Your lecture throughout was refined and scholarly.  It was radiant with wit and humor.  It was illuminated by a highly dramatic instinct.  It was strong in instruction, as well as in entertainment, from start to finish.  In short, it was a masterpiece.  I wish you could hear the words of appreciation that are being spoken.  The people seem to be glad that the entertainment company failed to appear.  This community has heard the best talent on the lecture platform and can appreciate the best, and you have demonstrated yourself to the people here as an equal, if not absolutely the superior of any.

Yours fraternally,
JOHN E. BEERY.



HON J. B. SULLIVAN, OF IOWA.
Dr. J. Everist Cathell is not alone an effective orator and pleasing speaker, but, first of all, is a scholar of ripe experience.  His studious habits have led him to become familiar with questions that are today agitating the public mind.  He was recently invited by the Board of Education to deliver the commencement address to the three hundred members of the graduating class of the Des Moines High School.  He chose as his subject, The Meaning of Education.  The address was one worthy of the speaker and of the occasion.  In clear and incisive manner, he set forth what education means in a way that was striking, cumulative and forcible, the thought being, that true education is not book learning only, but also the knowledge of life and the relationship of man to society.  Dr. Cathell is a worthy citizen and a gentleman of high order.

J. B. SULLIVAN.



MEDFORD (OKLA.) PATRIOT STAR
The lecture on Abraham Lincoln, delivered by Dr. J. Everist Cathell at the opera house last Monday evening as the second number of the lecture course, was a treat to lovers of history.  Living in Washington at the time the great events transpired which immortalized the martyred Lincoln; of an age when deep impressions were made upon his mind; it is congruous that Dr. Cathell should speak of this great historical character in an interesting manner.  The portrayal of the scenes so closely connected with the civil war, which can not be presented without referring to Lincoln, recalled to the aged members of the audience the years that stirred the nation to its foundation.  Many incidents were related by Dr. Cathell not given in history, yet which came under his own observation.  To the younger members of the audience it was a lesson long to be remembered.  Dr. Cathell is a pleasant and impressionable speaker.  He speaks fluently without notes, having the data of his lecture thoroughly in mind and being able to present it in an attractive and interesting manner.




FATHER LENNON'S TESTIMONY.
Whitefield, N. H.

Rev. Dr. Cathell's lecture on Lincoln was one of the finest I have had the privilege of listening to for a long while, and, unquestionably, the best ever delivered in the history of this community.  The Rev. Doctor possesses great oratorical abilities.  His person is commanding, dignified, and his countenance is highly expressive.  He is endowed with a rich, musical and sympathetic voice and used varied, graceful and forceful gestures.  Besides these mere outward elements of his personality, he has extraordinary mental resources, a fertile and glowing imagination, fluency and brilliancy of speech; and, above all, a heart that reaches his hearers and moves their wills by convincing and sympathetic warmth of his utterances.  As a public orator his place is secure among the masters of modern eloquence.

H. E. LENNON, D. D., Pastor St. Matthew's Catholic Church.



FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH, Richmond, Indiana.
The lecture by Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell last night, the third number of our Lecture Course, on Oratory and Orators, was, without question, the finest number of our course.

Dr. Cathell is a natural orator himself, in all that this word implies, and this lecture gives him the opportunity of displaying his talents along this line.

We regard him as one of the greatest platform speakers ever heard in our city.

LEE B. NUSBAUM, Chairman Lecture Course Committee.



REV. ISAAC M. HUGHES, D. D.
Last evening I listened, with great delight and profit, to a lecture by the Rev. Dr. J. Everist Cathell on Ultimate Christianity in America.  He showed the unsatisfactory condition of religious denominationalism in our country at this time, dwelt upon the unfulfilled intercession of the Master that all may be one, even as we are one, that the world may believe that Thou has sent Me, and declared that the wisest Christian leaders are calling for a greater Christian unity for the effective conduct of war against the mighty forces of evil in Christian lands and communities.  The speaker deplored the habit of division which has arisen from centuries of cultivated separation, and affirmed that many Christian churches regard separation as a permanent test of orthodoxy, and made the proposition that no body of Christian men should contend for anything as essentially true which does not, by right, belong to all.  The lecturer suggested that it is not true loyalty to Christ to merely desire unity, but that true faith will lead its possessors to expect it.  Dr. Cathell does not deny virtue to the motives and methods of denominationalism, but declares that, like builders of a great temple or palace, the artisans should finish each their faithful and requisite labor, and leave the edifice complete, accomplished and beautiful, for the ultimate purposes of its construction.  The lecture was enlivened by relevant with and humor and was eagerly listened to by all present, making a profound impression.  It should be heard all over the land, and I have no doubt that it would be greeted with intent interest by multitudes of earnest, thoughtful people, and be productive of great good.

ISAAC M. HUGHES, Pastor Emeritus, First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Indiana.



WALLINGFORD, CONN.
In language simple, chaste, beautiful, a masterly orator gave us a picture of a master of men that will remain forever memorable in the minds of those who were privileged to listen to him.  It was a delight and an inspiration.  I could have listened until midnight, said a learned and thoughtful citizen, as he left the opera house.

Lincoln will be better known and better loved by all who can hear the story of his life from the lips of Dr. J. Everist Cathell.

RICHARD G. WOODBRIDGE. Pastor First Congregational Church.



THE PARISH ADVOCATE
On Sunday morning, October 17, we had with us as the preacher, the Rev. J. Everist Cathell, D. D., who will be remembered as having been in charge of Trinity Parish for nearly a year, during an interregnum in the rectorship, a number of years ago.  Dr. Cathell has a wide reputation as preacher and lecturer.  His sermon on Sunday morning was an eloquent one and consisted of a striking and clearly made contrast between Solomon, the worn-out worlding's estimate of life, as expressed in his saying: Vanity of vanities; all is vanity; and that of our Lord, as expressed in His life and teachings.  Dr. Cathell has, until recently, been rector of St. Paul's Church, Des Moines, Iowa, the largest parish in the Diocese.  He has laid aside for a time parochial work and is engaged in lecturing.  There will be opportunity to hear him more than once in Pittsburg during the winter.  He has not laid aside his office as a preacher, but finds opportunity to preach, and willingly accepts it, nearly every Sunday, in the places where he chances to be.—The Parish Advocate, Church of the Ascension, Pittsburg, Pa.



THE JACKSON (MICH.) PATRIOT
Dr. J. Everist Cathell spoke for two hours to a very large audience at the First M. E. Church last evening as a number of the lecture course.  The subject was Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.  For the benefit of those not present, it may be stated that Dr. Cathell is nearly 60 years of age, a clergyman built on lines which suggest a very portly business man.  Dr. Cathell is as brainy as he is large, and to any who have a liking for historical reference as matters of interest and entertainment, the smooth, scholarly address regarding Lincoln and his connections with the war must certainly have appealed.  Being full of the subject with which he dealt, and possessing an easy delivery, the speaker was able at all times to hold the strict attention of his hearers, and it is more than likely that the majority of the audience would have been satisfied to have remained a further hour with a continuation of the address.




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