Edward T. Hagerman, D. D

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Edward T. Hagerman, D.D.



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EDWARD T. HAGERMAN, D. D. Announcement



D
R. HAGERMAN'S entrance into the lecture field was in response to a generous demand of an ever-widening reputation of a magnetic orator and known student of affairs.  He is a man peculiarly sympathetic, in touch with the activities of every-day life, and a lover of the best American ideals.  His lectures present an infinite variety in humor and pathos, and masterfully depict human tendencies logically developing in individuals, society and government.  He is a genius in word-painting, and his thoughts are emphasized by natural, wholesome wit, as refreshing as a burst of sunlight.  His themes are practical and so related to living interests and human nature as to be always timely, absorbing, uplifting.  For ten years Dr. Hagerman's public utterances have told mightily for a more vivid Christianity, a stronger patriotism and the dignifying of noble manhood.  Enthusiastic praise characterizes the reports of his appearances everywhere.  The Bureau presents him, after years of successful bookings, with fullest confidence.





Subjects



The World We Live In


The Potter and the Clay


The Square Man





Testimonials from the Press and Public



Erie (Pa.) Dispatch


—The lecture last evening by Dr. Edward T. Hagerman was one of the best, if not the best, ever delivered before the County Institute.  His subject, 
The World We Live In,
 was taken from a practical standpoint and each thought demonstrated in a manner so pure and simple that everybody understood and appreciated the full purport of his words.




Des Moines (Iowa) Daily Capital


—The Martin Luther Club of St. John's Church, has given a number of entertainments during the winter.  Last evening Dr. Hagerman, of the First Methodist Church, delivered his lecture, 
The World We Live In.
  A large and appreciative audience greeted the speaker.  Dr. Hagerman proved himself a master on the platform.  It was expressed by many that 
The World We Live In
 was one of the best lectures they had ever heard.  The lecture sparkled with witticisms, a thread of humor ran through the whole, while it embodied the most wholesome truths, presented in a manner that will have a lasting impression.




J. T. Stewart, County Superintendent of Schools, Indiana, Pa.




—Dr. Hagerman pleased our people very much.  He is worth more money than you pay him.  The closing of his lecture is simply grand.  I have not heard one adverse criticism to Dr. Hagerman.




East Palestine (Ohio) Echo


—Last Friday evening Dr. E. T. Hagerman delivered his lecture, 
The World We Live In,
 which was highly commended by almost all of the audience.  The doctor in his discourse took up the following phases of life:  Literary, religious, sensitive, superstitious, world of style and world of commendation.  He dwelt on the good and bad influences of the above in a witty, tactful and entertaining manner.  His story of the Irishman's definition of true and undefiled religion seemed to be a taking anecdote when Pat assured the preacher that to be brief was insurance against fire in the next world.  The story of the Ransom family was also good.  The special moral teaching of this lecture was to live in a world of commendation rather than criticism, and he illustrated it in a very forceful manner.  The lecture committee is to be congratulated on securing such good talent.




Riverside (Cal.) Daily Press


—Dr. Hagerman is one of the most fascinating speakers ever heard in this city.  His manner is singularly charming and magnetic, he is a master of clear-cut, incisive English, and he has a most happy faculty of dressing up old facts and presenting them in a new and pleasing guise.  No long-hand report would do justice to his eloquent address, and none will be attempted.  Had Riversiders generally known what a privilege was theirs, the hall would not have held the crowds.  It was a distinct literary treat.



EDWARD T. HAGERMAN, D. D.

Kane (Pa.) Weekly Leader


—The second number on the Y. M. C. A. entertainment course was the lecture of Dr. Hagerman.  It was delivered Wednesday evening to a large house.  As a speaker there is sound logic and convincing argument in Dr. Hagerman's lecture.  He is a unique wit, keeping his audience in a state of expectancy and then suddenly springing a new, really new, and apt story, which charms and pleases without belittling the theme of the speaker.  One forgets that it is a minister on the platform and thinks for a moment that an acquaintance of many years has recently returned and is telling of new and entertaining personal experience.  Many who heard the lecture of Wednesday would enjoy the same speaker on another theme if he could be induced to make a date.



Warren (Ohio) Chronicle


—Dr. Hagerman has the ability to puncture human foibles and at the same time to suggest a better thing or purpose in so happy a combination that permanent benefit is sure to result.  He is clear in voice and thought, sprightly in illustration, a splendid mimic, evidently well acquainted with human nature, a good storyteller.  He had his audience from the start and kept it in sympathy with his idea that the world inside of us is the world in which we live.  He will be welcome whenever he comes to Warren again.



Fayette (Ia.) Reporter (Upper Iowa University)


—
Faculty, students and towns people unite in pronouncing the lecture, 
The World We Live In,
 by Dr. E. T. Hagerman, one of the strongest presentations of practical truths ever given in Fayette.  The happy blending of wit and wisdom, the chaste rhetoric, the sustained forceful utterance, all conspired to make the lecture one long to be remembered.  Indeed, the emphasization of the fact that 
The World We Live In
 is inward, not outward, will, we doubt not, bring forth fruitage in the lives of many who heard the eloquent divine.



Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat


—Dr. Edward T. Hagerman appeared at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium yesterday in his popular lecture, 
The World We Live In.
  Dr. Hagerman was greeted by a large audience and everyone was highly pleased with his effort.  He referred to the world of literature and made a plea for a departure from fiction, though he upheld standard fiction.  He also spoke of the world of love and said love was all inclusive and takes one out of his own self to brighten the lives of others.  He advocated the word of commendation and said men should be given credit and encouragement for what they do.  Dr. Hagerman discussed his subject from a practical standpoint and all his hearers understood and appreciated the pure, simple thoughts he expressed.



Des Moines (Ia.) Register and Leader


—
Dr. Hagerman never fails to please, especially when he gets in the lecture mood.  His logic, his illustrative stories, and even his delivery itself indicated yesterday that he understands human nature and depicts it realistically.



Duquesne, Pa.


—
The Carnegie Music Hall was occupied last Friday night by an audience that manifested much interest in the lecture of Dr. Edward T. Hagerman, who furnished the third entertainment of the Star Course.  Dr. Hagerman took for his subject 
The World We Live In,
 and handled it in a manner that stamped him as one of the best lecturers who has ever been in Duquesne, and bore out the many good things said about him by others.  Dr. Hagerman's philosophy of life is one that all might follow with credit to themselves.



Morris (Minn.) Times


—The lecture given by Dr. E. T. Hagerman Wednesday evening of last week was received with great favor by the audience.  It was one of the best that has ever been delivered since the lecture course was started here.  Dr. Hagerman has a homely, as well as a humorous way of putting things, and while he entertained he also enforced home to the minds of his auditors some very valuable lessons.  His subject was 
The World We Live In,
 the 
world
 being explained as a mental one.  He spoke of the literary world and those who live therein, of the religious world, the sensitive world, the business world, the world of commendation, as well as others, and under each heading he said many good things.  Everybody voted this number of the course a fine success.



Indiana (Pa.) Progress


—Those who braved the combination of bad weather Monday evening and went to Library Hall were well repaid.  The opening attraction of the institute lecture course was Dr. E. T. Hagerman, the well-known lecturer and preacher.  His subject, 
The World In Which We Live,
 was presented in a charming manner and displayed a wealth of eloquence, logic and wit.  He pointed out many valuable helps, which aid in getting the most possible good out of life.  His lecture was highly appreciated by the large audience which greeted him.



Meadville (Pa.) Morning Star


—Dr. Edward T. Hagerman appeared Monday evening at the Academy of Music in the Meadville Entertainment Course.  The audience, which was large, was kept interested from beginning to end of the exceedingly entertaining and instructive lecture.  Dr. Hagerman was introduced by Col. Ned Arden Flood.  He spoke on 
The World We Live In,
 and his lecture consisted of a series of vivid, realistic sketches of every-day life and the most common experiences of humanity.  Frequent stories and apt illustrations led the way to the many telling points brought out.  Dr. Hagerman follows closely the conversational style and yet makes effective use of his voice in emphasizing his strong points.  If everything he said in the way of advice were followed by everybody, the world would be beyond the need of reformers.



Postville (Ia.) Recorder


—

In all that is good, Iowa affords the best,
 is a reputation the Hawkeye state has won throughout the nation by the many brainy and brilliant men she has produced and is still producing, and this reputation was most ably sustained at Turner Hall on Tuesday evening by Dr. Edward T. Hagerman, of Des Moines, in his lecture, 
The World We Live In.
  It was the second number of the winter's lecture course, and a star number it was, which for almost two hours held entranced and delighted an audience of close to four hundred souls, and we doubt not but many who heard his words of wisdom woven with wit had the world they lived in somewhat enlarged.  We believe we may safely say without the charge of prejudice or unfairness resting against us, that no lecture ever delivered in Postville has given better satisfaction.  To use one of the Doctor's expressions, 
It was a corn-crib to our soul,
 from which all who heard him will take frequent feeds.



Greenville (Ohio) Daily Tribune


—Friday night's lecture at the auditorium was a rare treat.  Dr. Edward T. Hagerman was the lecturer and his theme, 
The World We Live In.
  But the subject gives no conception of the witty, brilliant treatment of human responsibilities and possibilities that kept the audience alternately laughing and electrified.



EDWARD T. HAGERMAN, D. D.


Salem (Ohio) Daily Herald


—The third entertainment in the lecture course series was delivered to a good house last evening by Dr. E. T. Hagerman on the subject, 
The World We Live In.
  The lecture was full of thought and highly entertaining.  In his introduction he said that when a boy stands on his father's doorstep and looks around at the world about him he sees it all, and that so many people to-day pass their life and at its close are no better acquainted with the 
World in Which We Live
 than is the boy who views it from his father's doorstep.  He also said that it was the world within one's self that made him capable of enjoying the outer world in the highest sense.  He said there were several worlds, the literary world, the religious world, the sensitive world, the superstitious world, the stylish world and the world of commendation.  The lecture was extremely interesting and he kept his audience guessing whether they lived in one or all of his worlds.




Butler (Pa.) Institute Reporter


—Rev. Hagerman, in his lecture at the City Opera House, paid a fine compliment to the teachers.  He said that there is no class of workers so poorly paid, so badly treated, and so little appreciated in proportion to the service they render.  About the only time the average parent ever thinks of a teacher is when Johnnie comes home with a tale of how mean the teacher is, and then an angry note is written to the overburdened one.  He told about a teacher who was once complimented [siccomplemented]for the work she had done, and she broke down and cried, and said that was the first person who had said one kind word about her work.  As the lecturer said, people are a little too sparing with their compliments.  Not only the teachers, but others also, might be made happier if we would remember to say some pleasant things occasionally in regard to their work.  And nothing untruthful need be said, either, for most people do creditable work at times.




Bainbridge (N. Y.) Daily Reporter


—The second entertainment of the Bainbridge lecture course took place at Prince Hall last Friday evening, when Edward T. Hagerman, D.D., lectured upon 
The World We Live In.
  For nearly two hours Mr. Hagerman held the closest attention of his audience with his brilliant delineation of human nature, his incisive treatment of our mental and moral weaknesses and his kindly sarcasm.  With keen wit and winning eloquence he showed the size of many a person's religious and intellectual worlds and pointed out several other worlds in which some dwell, such as the world of style, sensitiveness and commendation.  The lecture throughout was one of the best and most instructive ever given in Bainbridge, and no one who had the pleasure of hearing it could be persuaded to remain at home should Dr. Hagerman come this way again.




Huron County (Ohio) News


—Dr. Hagerman's address, as was anticipated, was one of the best of the evening.  He dwelt long and strongly upon the character of McKinley and his accomplishments in life.  Though a minister of the Gospel, it must be said that Dr. Hagerman's entire capability does not end there.  He proved himself pretty thoroughly conversant with the political situation of the country, and in his remarks handed out more politics than did his predecessors on the program.




Monongahela (Pa.) Times


—The very disagreeable weather was responsible for a comparatively small audience at the Opera House last night to greet the well-known lecturer, Dr. Hagerman.  His subject was 
The World We Live In,
 and his eloquent address was listened to with deep attention from beginning to end.  It was full of good things and contained, in addition to an abundance of valued information, a varied assortment of wit and humor that kept the audience in good humor from start to finish.




Charles F. Johnson, Secretary Des Moines (Iowa) Y. M. C. A.—


Dr. E. T. Hagerman has appeared on our platform several times, and he has always given the best of satisfaction.  His strong personality and pleasing delivery make him especially popular and interesting.  His lecture on 
The World We Live In
 is a masterpiece of eloquence, wit, humor and good common sense, being mixed together in a way that appeals to the average thinker.  We count it a pleasure to have heard and known him.




Dr. J. C. Barr, Manager Lecture Course, Mars, Pa.—


The fifth entertainment of the Mars lecture course was 
The World We Live In,
 by Rev. E. T. Hagerman, D.D., and was the crowning success of the season.  I take great pleasure in recommending Dr. Hagerman to all entertainment committees, as he is eloquent, logical and instructive, and his lectures are sparkling with wit and humor from beginning to end.  He is a grand, good man, and one of the most popular lecturers of the day.  Hear him and be convinced, converted and convulsed.




Charleroi (Pa.) Daily Mail


—The last number in the public school entertainment course was given last night.  It was the lecture of Dr. E. T. Hagerman, 
The World We Live In.
  There were six numbers in the course, all highly enjoyed.  Dr. Hagerman's lecture was a grand finale.  It is safe to say that though he came as a stranger, scores of people in town will remember him all their remaining days.  His lecture was bright, humorous, fascinating and, best of all, stimulating. His pictures were vivid, but not overdrawn.  His demands for charitable and earnest living well based and elevating in tone.  Every mortal who heard Dr. Hagerman certainly felt a condemnation for his past narrow life and a spirit of resolution to live on a broader and more helpful level.




Mantua (Ohio) Herald


—Dr. E. T. Hagerman's lecture, 
The World We Live In,
 Tuesday evening, completed the High School entertainment course for this season.  This last number was considered by many as the best of anything in this line ever given in Mantua.  The entire line of thought presented was of a most practical nature and held the attention of a full house throughout.  While every word was directed to lift the minds of all to higher ideals of life, the wit and humor, together with forceful utterance, were such that the youngest and those who would ordinarily be inclined to have the lightest appreciation of a lecture, were filled with interest and thoughtful attention.  It was fortunate that such an excellent number should close the course.  All will be most highly delighted to have another opportunity of hearing Dr. Hagerman.




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