Henderson S. Martin

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Henderson S. Martin





Henderson S. Martin



Hon. E. W. Hoch, Governor of Kansas, in speaking of Mr. Martin, says:




M
R. MARTIN has long found his most congenial company among the master minds of the world of letters; he loves the society of good books.  He is not only a student of the printed page, but also of the great book of nature; he is a thinker, essentially a book maker.  He writes well, and to this adds the rare ability of expressing himself upon the platform in a very entertaining and instructive manner.  He has a fine presence, a clear, strong voice, a pleasing manner and something to say worth hearing.





SUBJECTS



Winning the West


Kings of the Furrow


The Country School Teacher






From 
Kings of the Furrow



Poor as these men were in the things I have mentioned, they were rich in some things beyond compare.  When you search out the proudest things in the history of our country you will find them in the history of the farmers of the old agriculture.  These men were with Jackson at New Orleans when the flower of European soldiery came marching to that city under the leadership of the hero of Salamanca, and these farmers, encouraged by the sweet scent of the magnolias and the prayers of their countrymen, stayed there until they had planted these flowers in a cypress swamp in Louisiana.  Weighed and found wanting has been written of kings, princes and potentates; of statemen, soldiers and captains of industry, but it has never been written of the farmers of the old agriculture.





From 
Winning the West



The country which they looked upon, as they halted upon the mountains, was a wilderness, but no better place has ever been framed for the habitation of men.  It is now the richest, as it was then the fairest, land that ever met the homeseeker's gaze.  Hills and valleys, prairie and woods, it held somewhere within its borders all the elements that nature has made essential to the happiness and prosperity of man.  The land of wild turkeys and canebrakes; of salt springs and woodland fruits; the land of the Indian corn, the greatest and best of earth's gifts to man.  Indian corn will grow in other soils, but it is found here in its home.  The cry of hunger has been the cry of humanity.  Famine here and famine there, but its sad wail was never heard in the home of the Indian corn.




I am willing to vie with you in lofty praise of American heroes; I am willing to sing of Yorktown and Appomatox, but the unmatched glory of our history is the humble backwoods Christian who inherited a wilderness and converted it into a Christian nation.





From 
The Country School Teacher



The country school teacher has opportunity to become acquainted with the boys and girls and to discover the style of their building.  You can teach them some discount and how to figure profit and loss, but you will also have an opportunity to wake up their sleeping spirits.  You can hitch their chariots to a star, and when you have done that, it matters little about your arithmetic and grammar, your reading and spelling; they have been born again, and this time into the society of the elect.  Their future hopes will be conceived in the depths of the country night and measured only by the breadth of their native prairie.  Accustomed as they are to real and honest things, they repudiate shams and frauds and have no formula but sincerity; they leave titles and pedigrees in the toy shops of shallow minds and content themselves with the reflection that it is better to be fit to be senator than it is to be senator.







Prof. A. H. Bushey, President Kansas State Teacher's Association
 — 
Mr. Martin is a clear, forcible and magnetic speaker.  His lecture on 
The Country School Teacher
 is an intellectual treat.  It is one of the most beautiful pieces of word painting it has ever been my privilege to hear.




Prof. John Richeson, Superintendent East St. Louis, Ill., Public Schools
 — 
Mr. Martin has somewhere caught the contagion of lofty thinking and inspiring enthusiasm.




Prof. W. L. Burdick, Law Department, Kansas State University
 — 
Mr. Martin's lectures are of rare excellence.  He is a master of diction, and in him the scholar and orator are united.




J. A. Leavett, President Ewing College, Ewing, Ill.
 — 
Mr. Martin is a clear thinker, has a pleasing personality and a good delivery.  He is an orator and we hope to have him here again.




At the Kansas State Teachers' Association, 1904
 — 
Mr. Henderson Martin's address on 
The Country School Teacher
 was the next subject.  His picture of the country school and teacher was highly poetical.  The purifying influences of the country made it possible to grow good men and women.  The deadening uniformity of graded schools was absent; in the atmosphere of the farm the vision is clearer, and the teacher has more opportunities to become acquainted with the boys and girls.  The country teacher, country doctor and country parson are kings of men.  The glory of our country is not in the cities, but in the country.




Chief Justice Doster


— The address is replete with thought and is delivered in an entertaining manner.  I compliment you on its excellence.




State Superintendent Dayhoff


— Mr. Martin's 
Country School Teacher
 is a most excellent lecture.




Kansas City Times


— Mr. Martin's gifts as a speaker are enviable.  His diction is faultless and his subject matter always interesting.




Eureka Herald


— Mr. Martin is of good personal address and physique.  He is a man of strong convictions, a clear thinker and a brilliant speaker.  He is considered one of the best lawyers in the state.




Westmoreland Signal


— Mr. Martin spoke to a splendid audience here Wednesday night.  He is one of the most logical and pleasing speakers that ever appeared before an audience in this city.




Marion Record


— Mr. Martin's lecture is thoughtful and orginal in subject matter, beautiful in diction and effective in delivery.





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