Dr. James S. Kirtley

              Dr. James S. Kirtley
(HYDE PARK, CHICAGO)
SEASON 1914–15

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Dr. Kirtley's lecture on the Barefoot Kingdom, under the auspices of our Men's League in Chicago, was a masterpiece.  It sparkled with rare wit.  It charmed by its beauty of imagery.  Above all, it was thought-provoking and life-inspiring.—Rev. Austen K. deBlois, D. D., Pastor First Baptist Church, Boston.


TITLES OF LECTURES

In the Barefoot Kingdom Music and Folks
The Boy in His Teens
The World's One Man
The Problems of Eugenics
The Life of Christ — Six Lectures
Our Wonderlands — Three Lectures (Illustrated)




SKETCH OF LECTURER
Dr. Kirtley comes of a race of preachers, and has amply fulfilled the prophecies that went on before him.  In several cities in the South, West and Northwest, but particularly in St. Louis, Kansas City, Elgin and Duluth, he has wrought in a ministry at once distinctive and honest.  His broad interest in all life, and in all thought, as made permanent in the best literature, makes any lecture that he gives a replica for the earnest man to hang up in the chamber of his soul.



THE LECTURES

The Two Boy Lectures—In the Barefoot Kingdom and The Boy in His Teens—are offered for lecture courses, clubs, chautauquas, banquets and rallies.
Music and Folks, considers the significance and symbolism and uses of music.
The Problem of Eugenics—A discussion of a live question.

The Wonderland Lectures are:


1.
The Yellowstone Wonderland.  A trip through Yellowstone Park, with over one hundred colored pictures as good as can be made.
2.
The Northwestern Wonderland.  A journey over the mountains, lakes and streams and through the forests of Oregon and Washington with one hundred and forty-five pictures, giving the interesting experiences of two trips to the Pacific Coast.
3.
The Canadian Wonderland.  A trip through the most picturesque mountains of North America, taking in Lake Louise, the most beautiful small lake in the world—over one hundred pictures.

The World's One Man—Jesus Christ, the only normal man, who has ever been among us.

The Life of Christ—Six lectures with printed syllabus on the subjects:


a.
Historical Preparation.
b.
Personal Preparation.
c.
His Method—Teaching.
d.
His Method—Work.
e.
His Death.
f.
His Program.


The lecture entitled In the Barefoot Kingdom, delivered at Emanuel Church Friday evening by Dr. J. S. Kirtley, was highly instructive and pleasantly interspersed with brilliant humor.  It grows in interest from the beginning to the end.  Dr Kirtley is a speaker of rare ability.—
Kansas City Times.


His subject, Music and Folks, was presented in an especially pleasing and forcible manner, and the lecture throughout was replete with beautiful and original thought.—
Marshall, Mo., News-Democrat.


Dr. Kirtley's lecture was a masterpiece of thought and his audience was fairly carried away by his eloquence and earnestness, wit and humor.—
Blackwell, O. T., Daily News.


The final number of the series of entertainments here this winter, and by odds the best attraction of them all.—
Dexter, Kansas, Advocate.


Dr. Kirtley's lecture, The Barefoot Kingdom, at the annual banquet of our Congregational Men's Club charmed everyone, and we want him again for his lecture, The Boy in His Teens.  We recommend him to any audience that can appreciate high-class humor and clean, wholesome logic.—
J. F. Magee, Two Rivers, Wis.


Dr. Kirtley's humor won his audience.—
Elgin, Ill.


Eloquent and Forceful.—
Three Rivers, Mich., Reporter.


One of the delightful features of the lecture was the brilliant humor that ran through it all.—
Alliance, Ohio, Leader.


In the happiest phrasing and most beautiful descriptive terms, he gave a comprehensive definition of the modern boy.  His analysis of the boy was keen, philosophical and enlightening.  Few men possess the ability of Doctor Kirtley to give such solid instruction with apt illustrative and amusing anecdote.—
The Standard, (Chicago).


Such a delightful combination of wit, pathos and serious thought as to captivate all who heard it.—
Versailles, Ky., Sun.

The lecture by Dr. Kirtley, In the Barefoot Kingdom, ranks with the best things on the platform.  In humor, eloquence and sentiment, it is a gem.——E. W. Stephens, Columbia, Mo.

Very entertaining and instructive.—J. P. Greene, President William Jewell College.

A charming speaker, having a bright personality; he always lifts upward.—J. M. Greenwood, Supt. Kansas City Schools.


It was Dr. Kirtley's fluent descriptions of Yellowstone Park, his scientific explanations of the formations of these wonders, his humorous stories, and his own strong personality, that made the lecture Tuesday evening such a pleasure to those who listened to it.—
The Elgin Courier.


Wise and witty, humorous and pathetic.  Dr. Kirtley is possessed of a musical speaking voice and an excellent platform presence.—
Quincy, Ill., Journal.


The lecture was full of apt illustrations, fine humor and valuable counsel.—
Stockton, Kansas Record.


Dr. Kirtley's vivid descriptions made us feel we were present with him in the Yellowstone Park.—
Paducah, Kentucky, News-Democrat.

Dr. Kirtley gave two of his splendid popular lectures and conducted the Bible hour at our Ottawa, Kansas, Chautauqua this year, 1914, and won many friends for his work as teacher and lecturer.  His In the Barefoot Kingdom should have a wide hearing.  It is brilliant, sensible, popular.  It is difficult to say who liked it more, the boys or the boys' parents.—E. S. Stucker, Platform Manager.

I have had Dr. Kirtley at several of my chautauquas and have studied his popularity.  He has two special characteristics, originality and dainty humor.  He is unlike anyone else and there is marked literary finish to his style.—James H. Shaw.




Said About His Recent Book, That Boy of Yours
Published by George H. Doran & Co., New York - $1.00

You will learn more from this sympathetic study of boyhood than you ever dreamed of before.—
The Advance, Chicago.


In thirty-seven short, crisply written chapter, lighted with humor and abounding in common sense, the author discusses aspects of boyhood all the way from His Appetite to His Religion.—
American Youth.


In exceptional measure Dr. Kirtley has opened the rich and startling treasures of a boy's soul before us.  What father can read these pages and not feel his own record largely written here?  A mature 'boy' is here simply exchanging sacred experiences with 'other boys' who 'understand.'—
The Standard, Chicago.


The book cannot but be helpful to the boys themselves and to all who have aught to do with them.—
Zion's Advocate, New York.


The author has made a special study of boys and is at his best when he writes about them.—
Baptist World, Louisville.


The big-hearted, fun-loving, ever-young preacher who wrote this book was fashioned by nature and finished by grace for just such a task.  The book is a wonder in breadth and depth.—
The Examiner, New York.


A fresh, original and well-balanced study of the boy, inspired by unusual insight and large experience.—
The Survey.


It will be of special service to parents, ministers and students of child psychology.  It is written in a clear, forceful style, controlled  telligence and a power of observation which  delightful reading.—
Biblical World.

The heart of a boy is still in Dr. Kirtley.  Humor and wit smile and flash along its pages, happily blending with deeper feelings and serious purpose.  The style is free, limpid, popular and strong.  It reflects all unconsciously the personality of the author, in its geniality of temper, its keenness of intelligence, its wealth of sympathy and its nobleness of aspiration.  A cultured maiden lady got hold of my copy and was so charmed she insisted on keeping it.—mdash;Dr. W. R. L. Smith, Chapel Hill, N. C.

You have done boyhood and the parents of boys a distinct service.  The book is wholesome and human and not refrigerated by too much psychology of adolescence, from a good deal of which the good Lord deliver us.  You have written of the boy, not as he is in books, but as he is in boots and breeches, which is much to the boy's help and health.—Bishop W. A. Quayle, St. Paul, Minn.

My own boyhood is such a short distance behind me that I hugely enjoyed experiencing again, through your mediation, the fun of that golden age.  The book is most stimulating and, in the hands of parents and teachers and all who have to do with the problem of boyhood, will be a most helpful interpreter of the inside life of the average boy.—Rev. Dr. H. E. Fosdick, Montclair, N. J.

Dr. Kirtley evidently knows the boy first hand and has put upon the printed page what few men have given regarding boy life—a graphic picture of the boy in his own world.  The book is very timely and should be exceedingly helpful to parents and workers with boys.—F. A. Crosby, City Director of Boys Work, Chicago Y. M. C. A.

Dr. Kirtley knows boys—he has read about them, has lived with them, has been one himself and has not forgotten the experience.  And he knows how to write books so that when you begin to read you want to go on.  His wise words and delightful humor are alike apparent in this valuable volume.  Many a parent and Sunday School teacher who does not understand boys will find just what he needs to know in this charming book.—Rev. Dr. T. G. Soares, Prof. Homiletics, Divinity Department, University of Chicago.

An exceedingly discriminating and sympathetic portrayal of the boy in his ideals and needs and replete with suggestions for his guidance and development.  Dr. Kirtley has brought with him all the youth and vitality of his own boyhood and has transferred them to the pages of his book in the interest of the growing boy.  Every father and mother who has a boy should possess a copy of this book.—Rev. Dr. Edgar Y. Mullins, President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville.

Dr. Kirtley has clear insight and sympathy and sets his ideas forth in a bright, epigrammatic style that makes reading a pleasure.—Rev. Dr. C. S. Gardner, Professor Homiletics in Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville.

Dr. Kirtley's book is a growth.  It is not an effort but an overflow from a full life of thoughtfulness and genuine love.  The boy in his nature did not drop out when he grew to manhood.  He vividly remembers when he was young and has kept in touch with young life around him.  He has a boy of his own.  He has the insight of sympathy, a genius for advantageous points of view.  Keen discernment never loses itself in particulars.  The specific is always brought in quick relation to the whole boy problem.  A vein of humor keeps the author sane and sunny.  The profoundness of his psychology and the largeness of his view make him unconquerably optimistic.  He has a native faculty for telling sentences.  For the purpose in hand his style approaches perfection.  It is a book for the parent and the teacher.  It is also a good book for boys to read, for there they see themselves as they really are.—Rev. Dr. Benjamin A. Greene, Professorial Lecturer in Divinity Department, University of Chicago.


Particularly suggestive and entertaining.—
Review of Reviews.


Dr. Kirtley's theory is that if a father wants to make the most of his boy he must get inside of him and he thinks it helps the father to do this if he is able to go back into his own early days and be for a time both man and boy.  This is the most important point.—
New York Times.


An admirable volume for parents with an intimate and direct message that should be widely read.  Each chapter is a delightful little conversation which conveys much fundamental information in a very easy way.—
Chicago Herald.


Every phase of boy life is treated by a boy lover.  If every father accepted its standard, that his relation to his boy is the human counterpart of the relation of the Heavenly Father to men, if every father thus mingled wisdom with love, faithfulness with sympathy, watchfulness with comradeship, the red light district would be a thing of the past.—
Chicago Tribune.




About His Volume Entitled
The Young Disciple and His Lord, or Twenty-Six Days with Jesus — $.60
Published by American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia

The Standard:
Dr. Kirtley has fine qualifications for this kind of work.  He has wide grasp, clear, analytical discernment, the ability to group effectively and a style that is lucidity itself.  In addition to this he has spiritual insight and a knack of adapting complex material to growing minds.


Journal and Messenger:
Dr. Kirtley has won for himself a high place in our ministry as a preacher and pastor, and these Days with Jesus give him a similar place among expositors.


Central Baptist:
Dr. Kirtley is gifted in his power of analysis, in his ability to arrange details in facile order.  His language is exceedingly simple and clear.  He has written for those who need, first of all, a complete view of Christ's life, and in giving them this view he has also set forth the deeper meaning of those facts.  The book would form an admirable course of study for a Bible class as well as for private study.


Biblical World:
The book will prove an easy and helpful guide to the class for whom it was written, and is to be commended both for spirit and content.



About His Book
Royal Path to Success and Happiness, Originally Entitled The Young Man
Published by the Walter Book Co., Chicago

Kansas City Journal:
No book ever produced for young men has analyzed the subject so thoroughly.


Epworth Herald:
This book for young men, by Rev. J. S. Kirtley, D. D., is so well planned, so carefully and sanely wrought out, and so broad in its scope, that it deserves wide circulation.  It covers the whole range of things in which they are interested, and is in every page a safe guide and counselor.


The Baptist World:
It is just such a book as young men and boys should have, and the writer is just the man to make the book.


Arkansas Methodist:
Every element of good character and every exercise which goes to make good character are discussed.


Louisville Evening Post:
Dr. Kirtley writes with great zeal, eanestness and faith.  He has no false ideas of success, but holds that all true, whole men succeed, and he would make them true and whole.


The Outlook:
A book of wise counsel, with many incidents of men who have achieved honorable success.


Religious Heradl:
It is certainly one of the worthiest members in that large class of excellent literature which is designed to cheer, to move and inspire our boys and young men.  It is the choice book for young men.  Boys will be charmed with it.


The Nashville American:
Each of the themes is discussed in an easy, logical order, with a rare wealth of choice historical, literary and scientific illustration, and luxuriously adorned with apt and beautiful quotations.  It is easy to read Dr. Kirtley's book.  Once you begin, you are held to the closing paragraph, and you close the book feeling that you can be a man of honor and power.


Kansas City World:
The entire solution of the young man problem may be found in this book.


Baptist Reflector:
A more unique and timely volume has not appeared in recent print.  There is not a dry chapter, not a stale sentence in the whole work.


The Standard:
The popular Baptist pastor, Dr. J. S. Kirtley, has seen more of young men and their needs than falls to the lot of many ministers.  The standard writers, as well as recent books and magazines, are drawn upon for illustrations.  Any appearance of dryness suggested by the topics will be at once removed when the reader dips into a chapter here and there, noting the fresh and apt quotations, the epigrammatic sayings, the sensible yet elevating consideration of moral and social questions.  Dr. Kirtley has enriched his book by the inclusion of a remarkable list of nearly seventy halftone page portraits of successful living Americans, in politics, the professions, business, authorship, etc.  Each person who allowed the use of his photograph in this connection sent also a sentiment appropriate to some chapter of the book, and the reader has thus not only a collection of portraits which could scarcely be brought together elsewhere, but a considerable number of epigrammatic quotations not previously publis
hed, from men prominent in contemporary life.  Any young man, or middle aged man, or old man, for that matter, would be the better for imbibing some of the breezy optimism and healthful moral vigor of these well-written chapters.


Louisville Christian Observer:
Dr. Kirtley's book will find a wide welcome in our State and we commend it especially to all the homes where are boys and young men.

Bishop W. A. Quayle: The work is rare, wholesome, broad, manly, like its author.

Judge Jonathan Haralson: It contains a vast amount of information I have never seen collected in one volume before.

S. B. Capen: I congratulate you on so valuable a publication.

Dr. Nicholas Snn: It should be in the hands of every you.   it will be of the greatest service in directing ourse through life and imbuing him with the nest ideals of manhood and duty.

Gov. Alvdams: The idea and plan of the book are so unique you could get a patent on it.

Prof. J. M. Greenwood, Superintendent of Kansas City Public Schools: I have no hesitancy in recommending it as one of the most inspiring works ever written for young men.

Hon. E. W. Stephen: I do not know of any other book that so well fills its place.

Dr. J. P. Greene: No better book for boys and young people has ever come from the American press.

Hon. Hoke Smith: It will do great good.

Hezekiah Butterworth: It is a need work.

Gen. W. S. Shallenberger: The book is unique, original, and intensely interesting.

Pres. W. H. P. Faunce:It is certainly an unique book, a wise counselor in the great fundamental virtues of life.

Gov. F. M. Drake: A beautiful and instructive book.

Dr. Henry Hopkins in the introduction: A unique volume.  It is believed to be wholly unlike any other offered to the people of our time.  It cannot fail to be interesting and ought to be most stimulating and helpful.

Judge C. D. Wood: Next to the Bible I would rather my children would read it than any book I know.

Dr. James W. Lee: You have given us one of the most useful and entertaining books I have seen in many a day.  What a vast amount of research and study it discloses.  I congratulate you most heartily, and predict for this magnificent guide to manhood a wide sale.

MUTUAL LYCEUM BUREAU, ORCHESTRA HALL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS