Dr. E. A. Steiner

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Dr. E. A. Steiner


Dr. E. A. Steiner, Lecturer

SUBJECTS of LECTURES

On the Trail of the Emigrant
(It has a message for the times.)
Russian Problems of To-day
Tolstoi the Man—His Message
The Balkan and its People

Dr. E. A. Steiner's lecture On the Trail of the Emigrant, at Lakeside, Ohio, made a profound impression.  Every one who heard it was richer in his estimate of the dignity and worth of men.  I know of no one on the platform who can do more to create or deepen noblest convictions at this time of need and to give men a stronger grip of living truth.  He is a prince among lecturers.—H. S. Wannamaker.

He is a delightful entertainer


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A student of human history



ANNOUNCEMENT
We scarcely need state more than the bare fact that Dr. STEINER is coming.  Anyone who has heard him in his intensely interesting lectures on the Slavic people, their life and thought, will be very glad to hear him in these discourses, which throw new and penetrating light on the rising power of that vigorous race.  For the benefit of a few who are unacquainted with him or his reputation, we will say that EDWARD A. STEINER, Ph. D., is a native of Austria; educated in the best European schools, especially at Heidelberg, where he obtained the above degree; has traveled very widely; is a personal friend of the greatest modern European literary and philosophical lights, Count Tolstoi, Max Nordau and others; he is a brilliant and entertaining talker, one of the kind who make you wish they would not stop.  If he had no other recommendation this would be enough: He has been engaged to lecture at Chautauqua another season although an established rule of the Chautauqua management is never to allow a speaker to appear in consecutive seasons.





Dr. E. A. Steiner, Lecturer
It made the deepest impression in Chautauqua.—Bishop Vincent.


It was the testimony of an expert, most graphically and interestingly told.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Dr. Steiner knows more about Russia and the Slavic world than any other living American.—Dr. Henry A. Schauffler.

The story of the Characteristics and the Countries of the Slavs drew enthusiastic audiences.—Dr. W. A. Duncan, Syracuse, (N. Y.) University Building.


My Dear Dr. Steiner:—I am glad that you enjoyed your day here.  I hear glowing reports about it.  The people were greatly interested.—
Washington Gladden, Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Steiner's lecture on The Slavic World is a vivid, accurate, and very instructive picture of countries which he knows well.  He has the faculty of making everything which he touches extremely interesting.—John Henry Barrows.

A large number of our best people were out to hear Dr. Steiner's three lectures on The Slavic World, and they were delighted.  As a lecturer, he is not only interesting, but thoroughly understands his subject, and has subjects the people want to hear about.  It was like drinking from a fountain instead of a pitcher.  I hope many will have the privilege of hearing Dr. Steiner in his lectures on The Slavic World.—Dr. Sidney Strong, Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. E. A. Steiner's lecture On the Trail of the Emigrant is the message of a man who has seen something with his own eyes, and not as a curious spectator or as an interested newspaper reporter, but as one who with heart as well as hand has shared the life that he describes.  The subject matter of the lecture moves me as do the straightforward lectures of Jacob Riis, and it is not until afterward that one remembers the rare literary merit of the lecture.—Edward I. Bosworth.


Dr. Steiner is a student of human history, a student of man as he finds him and what is more, he does not fail to find him in his natural sphere.  To gather the material for the lecture delivered last evening, Dr. Steiner went up and down the length of the great Slav world, with his camera and note book, gleaning the choicest bits of narrative and the brightest of pictures with which to entertain his audiences.  It is therefore no wonder that his address last evening was a gem for entertainment and instruction.  The lecture was amply illustrated by a large number of stereopticon views which were taken by the speaker in his travels.  Dr. Steiner prefaced his lecture by giving an idea of the extent of the Slavonic population in the world.  He stated that it numbered 150,000,000 people, comprised eight nationalities and fifteen different tongues.—
Toledo Times.

There is no praise too extravagant when referring to your magnificent lectures on the Slavic race, and it will be the pleasure of my life to tell the whole world about it.—Mrs. Sara Hogan, Author and Editor, Atlanta, Ga.


These people, in their different spheres, from peasant to patrician, Dr. Steiner placed before his hearers in one of the most fascinating stories ever given from the lecture platform, crowning it all with glimpses of Tolstoi in his home life, as the reformer, the novelist, and as one of the brightest examples of the Slavonic race.—
Toledo, (Ohio) Blade.

Dr. Steiner possesses a wealth of instructive and entertaining information on the subject of the Slavic world, gathered from personal residence, travel and observation in the countries he describes.  His account of the scenes and customs among the least known of the Slavic nations, namely those of the Balkan, is especially valuable.  His illustrations and their lively description cannot fail to arouse a thoughtful interest in an important subject.—L. F. Miskovsky.

Dear Friend Steiner:—I want to use this opportunity to thank you for your wholesome lecture of Friday evening.  Just such subject matter as you brought to us needs to get dissemination in America today.  Few men are qualified to do that work as you are.  The public needs information first-hand and perfectly reliable in order to get a healthy sentiment as touching our social and civic relations.  You are equipped for a work that must be done and the sooner done the better.  While you are naturally on the side of the weak and unfortunate, I feel that you are schooling yourself to be just.  Your words thrilled us all the other night, and all who heard you will listen for more through your voice or pen, and I know you will not disappoint us.—Byron R. Long Columbus, Ohio.

To Rev. Dr. S. C. Dickey, Superintendent of Winona Chautauqua Assembly.

Dear Sir and Brother:—Last year I heard at Chautauqua, several of the series of lectures on The Slavs, delivered by Dr. Edward Steiner.  They were most interesting and instructive and immensely popular.  The subject itself is of the deepest moment and felt to be so by all of the students of world-politics.  First-hand information is difficult to get on this matter, from a popular lecturer in whose sober, Christian judgment you can rely.  Mr. Steiner's life has been divided between Slav and Anglo-Saxon.  He knew their language before ours.  He speaks from intimate acquaintance with the folk-life, customs and feelings.  And he has made serious studies into questions of origin and race-geography.  You could not go amiss if you should be able to incorporate this series.  Mr. Steiner has been again abroad (since speaking at Chautauqua) pursuing the same line of observation and preparation.—Sylvester T. Scovell, Ex-President Wooster University.




Dr. E. A. Steiner, Lecturer

Dr. Edward A. Steiner's work will be of the greatest social and political importance.—
The Outlook.


Dr. Steiner combines rare qualities and even to us Europeans, his knowledge of the Slavs was a revelation.—
Dr. Moritz Necrer, Literary Editor of Free Press, Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Steiner's lectures are unique; he brings before the audience all he has seen and felt in picturesque groups of living beings, and a journey with the lecturer means a journey with the people whom he describes.—Rev. E. P. Ingersoll, D.D.

I have heard Dr. Steiner's lecture On the Trail of the Emigrant with great interest and profit.  It is popular in the best sense and has a real and needed message with a strong appeal to every thoughtful hearer.—Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin College.


One of the most interesting features of the morning was the lecture delivered by Dr. Edward A. Steiner upon the topic, On the Trail of the Emigrant. Dr. Steiner is a man of attractive personality, eloquent in speech, brilliant in narrative and as he had a complete grasp of his subject the lecture was both delightful and profitable to the hearers.—
Jamestown, (N. Y.) Post.

We did enjoy your visit to the full; and let me tell you, Dr. Steiner, that almost to a girl, the verdict was that the afternoon lecture was the most inspiring and delightful.  I tell you this because you were so distressed about that afternoon lecture.  Not that everybody did not enjoy to the full the evening lecture, but that the girls felt there was more of a message in the afternoon talk.—Womens College, Oxford, Ohio.

I regard Dr. Steiner as a lecturer of more than usual power for several reasons.  He speaks in a simple and straightforward way, aiming to secure attention by the interest and value of his message, rather than by trying to use the arts of the orator.  He talks about those subjects of which he has a direct and personal knowledge.  In no case has he secured material for his popular lectures by perfunctory investigations and travel, but they have grown out of the wealth of his own personal experiences.  His interests are all dominantly human and what he has to say leads to wider vision and larger sympathy.  With it all he is a delightful entertainer.—J. H. T. Main, Dean of Iowa College.

A large audience received Dr. Steiner, who spoke on Tolstoi, the Man and His Message. Out of a deep admiration for the man, from personal acquaintanceship of some seventeen years, the speaker spoke with great earnestness, with deep conviction and with a dramatic fervor that carried persuasion to the hearts of his hearers.

The speaker himself is a man of no mean mental mould, shaped by nature to feel big things, buffeted by fortune from the universities of Europe, to the cold plains of Russia and then to America, from skepticism to deep faith and from curiosity to active work.

Dr. Steiner made the point that Tolstoi's life resembled that of the Christ, in that he descended to man.  He took this as the key-note of his philosophy.  To really help the masses he believed that it was necessary to become as one of them, to live under their conditions, but to show them that such a life, though humble, may be pure and sweet.

Dr. E. A. Steiner is not only a speaker of exceptional ability, but is a rare entertainer.  While he is a man of exceedingly keen and sensitive feelings, he is well-balanced and is possessed of the wisdom that goes with knowledge.  He is a member of the faculty of Iowa College, having been but recently called there to fill the chair of Applied Christianity.  He has just returned from Russia, and a protracted visit at the home of Tolstoi, and is contributing to the Outlook a series of articles upon the life of Tolstoi.  He is a profound student of social questions, both at home and abroad, and is particularly qualified to speak concerning Russian problems, as he is a recognized authority upon all Russian topics.  He has crossed the Atlantic over twenty-five times, and it has been his choice to travel as a steerage passenger in order that he may the better study and know mankind.  As a college professor, as a pastor for many years, as a prolific contributor by tongue and pen to all debates on the developments of social Christianity and civic betterment, and as a well-rounded, rationally progressive Christian minister, he fills today a large place in the Church at large.  Dr. Steiner has been in great demand on the lecture platform, and is one of the very few speakers who has been invited again and again to address the Chautauqua Assembly in New York.—H. H. Kennedy, Secretary Chicago Congregational Club.



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