Charles Brandon Booth

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Charles Brandon Booth
Lectures on
The Reclaiming of the Prisoner
and
The Church in Community Life




The Volunteer Prison League's Home for Discharged Prisoners at Chicago, Ill.



The immense dining hall at the Federal Prison, Leavenworth, Kansas.  The Prison League meetings were held in this hall before the completion of the prison chapel



One of the more Modern Prisons where 1600 men can be housed without crowding.





CHARLES BRANDON BOOTH, because of his vital connection with the Volunteer Prison League, the work founded by Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, and consequent contact with hundreds of discharged and paroled prisoners, is one of the best qualified lecturers obtainable to speak upon



The Rerlaiming of the Prisoner
For oven ten years he has been in constant touch with the many interests of this important subject.  In the prison field he has studied the lives of men and women known to the world as the given-ups and from their varied experiences and remarkable reclamation has learned the lesson of the redeemability of human nature.

Mr. Booth's lecture deals with facts and not with theories.  His treatment of the subject is intensely practical and he lays stress upon the essential reforms which must be accomplished for an adequate solution of the prison problem.

To his masterful presentation of his subjects he brings a vividness of illustration, an intense earnestness and a natural eloquence that make for great human heart interest.  His auditors readily realize the message as being from one whose individual experience in his life work has brought him a clear vision of the crying needs in this field of labor.  By the force of his personality, the power of his logic, and the appeal of his great sympathy for the so-called down-and-outer, he chains the great Chautauqua audience of the land to their seats as firmly as discipline holds the prisoners to theirs.  He is a moulder of opinion, a reformer of laws, a messenger of brotherhood and a stellar attraction on any program.




Subjects

THE RECLAIMING of the PRISONER
LIFE STORIES from PRISON SHADOWED HOMES
A NEW HOPE for AMERICA'S PRISONERS
REMOULDING MEN



COMMENT

Charles B. Booth moved the Ford Hall meeting last evening as these meetings have seldom been moved.
The Globe (Boston Mass.).


The reclaiming of American prisoners was vividly described by Charles Brandon Booth, General Secretary of the Volunteer Prison League.  Mr. Booth has seen a very great deal of life in the prisons all over this country and his lecture was made especially interesting through the illustrations of actualities which he has seen during his years of experience in Prison Work.
The Herald, Newport, R. I.


There are many able lecturers, but few have held a local audience to such close attention as did Charles Brandon Booth, the lecturer of the morning.  He is extremely earnest in utterance, and his manner is most sincere, even dramatic at times.
Union Sun (Lockport, N. Y.)

I wish you could tell your story throughout America as you told it to our audience last night.  It would do every individual hearer good and while creating a new intelligent sympathy for prisoners, would vitally diminish the spread of crime.

PERCY STICKNEY GRANT, Church of the Ascension, N. Y. C.

He has winning personally; he is an excellent platform speaker, and has a message for the people.

CHARLES H. RUST, Second Baptist Church, Rochester, New York.

Mr. Booth delivers a lecture to everyone, and he presents his message with an earnestness and eloquence which leave a lasting impression upon his audience.  The regret was general that he did not speak longer.

FRANK L. PALMER, Former Mayor and President of Lecture Committee (Saco, Maine).



The Church in Community Life
Mr. Booth has prepared a number of lectures upon subjects relating to the church, its importance, possibilities and opportunities in the life of the Community.  These lectures are strictly non-denominational.  He is particularly well-fitted to speak authoritatively of this problem which is of such immediate interest, having held office in certain of the largest churches in the East and also as the result of his contact with churches and study of communities, throughout the country.  He has collected a vast fund of information regarding the organization, results and benefits of Institutional Church Work and he brings a message of constructive criticism, helpful suggestion and deep interest.

MANAGEMENT FOR CHARLES BRANDON BOOTH