The DeMotte Lectures

              The DeMotte Lectures
Season 1906–7

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PROF. JOHN B. DEMOTTE
IN HIS
THREE FAMOUS LECTURES
(ILLUSTRATED)


THE DEMOTTE LECTURES

Three Helpful Lectures: No. I. The Harp of the Senses; or Secret of Character Building

SENTENCE QUOTATIONS

Lancaster, Pa.  Never had his superior.
Xenia, Ohio.  The best we ever had.
Akron, Ohio.  An immense amount of valuable information.
Ottawa, Kas.  The most interesting of the session.
Ft. Wayne, Ind.  One of the grandest ever heard here.

I have followed Prof. DeMotte in a great many lecture courses, and without exception his audiences have been cordial and enthusiastic in their praises of the man, his charming personality and his splendid work.—Robert J. Burdette.

I consider Prof. John B. DeMotte one of the most interesting and helpful men on the American platform today.  He helps young people; he helps fathers, mothers; he helps teachers especially.  He touches and inspires all our natures.—Z. X. Snyder, Pres't State Normal School, Greeley, Col.

Prof. DeMotte's Harp of the Senses is a unique lecture.  No young person, no one who has the care and training of young people, can afford to miss it.  When given here a man told me he would take his boy a hundred miles to hear it.  It is not only highly educational, it is also of intense interest. — John W. Lyell.

Denver, April 24, 1899.  The Harp of the Senses and Python Eggs and the American Boy are two of the best lectures now before the public.  The superintendent of schools in a large city in Ohio, said to me that he regarded them as the very best lectures he ever heard for young people and their parents.  They are fascinating, eloquent from first to last.— William F. M'Dowell, Chancellor of Denver University.




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Announcement
WE have long desired to secure the management of Prof. DeMotte's lectures, knowing it would be a decided help in our effort to furnish the best lecture talent for high-grade and useful work.  For many years he has been associated with other Bureaus.  He has done them and the public good service.  He now enters the list of talent of The American Lyceum Union, and for the next five years will fill engagements made only by the various Bureaus connected with this Union.  We congratulate our patrons in the increased value of the service we can thus render them.

The Management.




SENTENCE QUOTATIONS

Joseph Cook.  It was a great talk.
Henry Grady.  It is the most scientific and highly entertaining lecture of today.
D. A. Sinclaire.  Have had him four times and want him next year.
W. L. Davidson.  It will never be forgotten.

No entertainment that has been presented in our building ever created a more favorable impression among the people than did the lecture of Prof. John B. DeMotte, entitled Harp of the Senses; or the Secret of Character Building. — Y. M. C. A., Philadelphia.

Nashville, Tenn.

Mr. J. G. Reeves, General Secretary Y. M. C. A., Ft. Worth.

My Dear Sir:—I cannot resist the temptation to especially congratulate you upon having secured Dr. John B. DeMotte in your list.  It has been my good fortune to have heard and known personally nearly all the noted men on the American platform, but Dr. DeMotte, in his Harp of the Senses, occupying as he does a place peculiarly his own, has impressed me in the marvelous beauty and strength of his discourse as has no other orator of recent years.  The Harp of the Senses is the happiest presentation of scientific truths, in combination with an eloquent, popular lecture, conceivable.  It is the master work of a master—intense, vivid, fascinating, touching, elevating, brilliant, beautiful, inspiring!  The series of experiments used to illustrate the speaker's argument, are the most delicate and difficult known to the scientific world.  I am sure you will agree with me that he is a favorite son of the American Lyceum.—A. B. Anderson—Gazette, Ft. Worth, Texas.





Three Wholesome Lectures: No. 2. Python Eggs and the American Boy

CONDENSATION
Prominent Educators, Leading Clergymen, Local, State and National Y. M. C. A. Secretaries—the best people in over a thousand cities have pronounced these lectures among the most interesting and helpful on the American platform to-day.  They touch and inspire the intellectual, the emotional and the spiritual in us.  They should be heard frequently in every community.


The lecture throughout was superb, replete and happy.  In parting with Prof. DeMotte, The Times desires to congratulate the facility of last night's superb lecture and compliment the Y. M. C. A. on this, the choicest number of the season's course. —
St. Joseph (Mo.) Times.


Prof. DeMotte is one of the greatest lecturers in the country today.  He has had more engagements during the last two years than any other prominent lecturer.  He has been booked in all the great Y. M. C. A. and Star Courses in this country; there is scarcely a prominent course in Pennsylvania that he has not been in from one to five times.—
Philadelphia Lecture Bulletin.


John B. DeMotte, scientist, lecturer and famous thinker, appeared at the West Chester State Normal School Saturday evening, and for two hours, instructed, edified and amused a large audience, whose only regret was that they could not have the pleasure of listening longer to one of the most entertaining gentlemen upon the American platform.—
West Chester (Pa.) News.




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The Series
PROF. DEMOTTE has been asked many times to give the Three Lectures at the same place on consecutive nights.  It has been done with such good effect that the Professor has decided to encourage the making of arrangements for the series when practicable.  Any desiring this plan will communicate with the Bureau.

The Sweetest Picture in the World is that of the True Mother and Her Babe.

The brilliant and scholarly Prof. John B. DeMotte entertained a large audience at the Christian Church Monday night with his lecture Python Eggs and the American Boy.  From 8 until 10 o'clock he held his audience entranced with his eloquence, learning and splendid illustrations.


Prof. DeMotte was the star of last year's lecture course.  He is a more popular man in Maryville now than he was a year ago.  His second appearance here was looked forward to by Maryville people with the pleasantest anticipations and they were more than fulfilled.  His diction is always perfect, although during the two hours he takes in delivering his lecture he talks with the greatest rapidity.  He touches on the most delicate subjects in a manner not in the slightest degree suggestive; and his elucidations of scientific matters are so clear and luminous that the least learned of people can understand him and easily follow the trend of his reasoning.—
Maryville (Mo.) Tribune.




CONDENSATION

The lecture platform continues to be one of the popular and effective methods of moulding public opinion.  Among those who are now before the public and ranking as the first in interest and profit to his hearers is the talented speaker, Professor John B. DeMotte, who entertained a large and delighted audience in Normal Hall last Saturday night.—
The Daily Leader, Bloomington, Ills.


The lecture is simply beyond description. —
Brookville (Pa.) Republican.


Professor John DeMotte delivered the most instructive lecture of the year from Gray Chapel platform last evening.  His subject was, Python Eggs and the American Boy; his theme, Habit, the biggest word in the English language.  Excellent stereoscopic slides illustrated the lecture.  The lecture held every auditor's close attention, as he unfolded the latest teachings of biology with regard to the formation of character.—
Delaware (O.) Gazette.


This lecture presents, in a fully illustrated and interesting way the latest research-work in brain building.  It is especially valuable to parents and ambitious young people, as it illustrates, delicately and scientifically, the reasons for the powerful effects for good or ill upon the adult, of thought and conduct during youth. Eloquently portrayed.  At times his burning words appealed to the tender feelings and started the tears, while again he moved the audience to applause.—
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald.





Three Invaluable Lectures: No. 3.  A Plea for Posterity; or the Problem of Heredity
(Discussed from Standpoint of Fact—not Fancy)

Their first obligation is the proper training of the soul entrusted to their keeping.

This is a problem for all thoughtful people, young and old, but too far reaching for immature minds to pass judgment upon.

It concerns parents.

It gives dignity to courtship.

It concerns the young man and maiden who are looking toward the holy bond.

We are not so much concerned with a temporary remedy for that which is amiss as we are to learn the causes which have determined the conditions of men.


Prof. DeMotte spoke on A Plea for Posterity; or the Problem of Heredity.  His address was aptly illustrated by magnificent stereopticon pictures, many of which the speaker himself has gathered from all parts of the world in his travels.  He showed how heredity, physical, mental and moral, had much to do in determining life.—
Kalamazoo Gazette.


Striking deep into the heart of his subject and evidencing at once clear exposition and scientific accuracy, Professor DeMotte made lasting impressions in many minds.—
Williamsport (Pa.) Gazette Bulletin.




Over there, he said, pointing toward America, right there where the sun is going down, is the girl I love, and I am keeping myself pure for her sake.



It is safe to say that no lectures from a scientific standpoint were more effective eye-openers to the perils of impure thoughts and conduct than the two lectures given by Prof. DeMotte.—
N. Western Mail, Madison, Wis.


TRUMAN W. HARRINGTON Expert Assistant, 16th Year




It is the most interesting, the most fascinating, the most appalling, the most suggestive, the most helpful, the most discouraging, the most simple, the most inexplicable, the most unsolvable problem of the ages.

It consecrates marriage.

It outlines a philosophy of happiness.

It touches all that is noble and lovable in life.

It accounts for much that is ill, insanity, suicide and physical degeneration.

It points to the responsibilities and dangers, the recompenses and securities of parenthood.


A Plea for Posterity; or the Problem of Heredity was the subject of the lecture which was illustrated, and Prof. DeMotte succeeded in entertaining his large audience in an unusually successful manner.—
Detroit Tribune.


Prof. DeMotte, scientist and lecturer, stands first in the list of popular lecturers today in America and Europe.  He is a man with an ideal home life, a practical Christian, a favorite among college students, a scientist, lecturer and famous thinker, possessing a great heart, which seeks ever to help and inspire to higher ideals. —
DesMoines (Ia.) The Message.






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