Arthur Walwyn Evans: noted Welsh orator

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Arthur Walwyn Evans 
Noted Welsh Orator



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Arthur Walwyn Evans



Any man who can come to America and attain favorable prominence on the lecture platform, while still in his early thirties, has natural gifts that cannot be denied.  Today, comparatively young, Arthur Walwyn Evans is recognized as one of the lyceum's most virile orators—a man of sincere purpose and extraordinary intellectual resources.




Dr. Evans' education was pursued in Wales, England and Scotland.  After he had completed his studies at one of the largest Scotch Universities, he was sent as a special evangelist by the Church of Scotland to the Shetland Islands.  For several years he preached in various parts of Great Britain.  At Ballater he addressed King Edward VII's Guard of Honor, including Lord Knollys and many notable men.  During the world-famed Welsh revival he spoke nightly to audiences of five thousand in the Music Hall at Aberdeen.




When he came to America Dr. Evans became minister of one of Ohio's leading Congregational churches—a church that had as its minister Dr. Edward A. Steiner, a foremost authority on immigration.  But the call to the lyceum finally induced Dr. Evans to give up his church work and he is now devoting his time exclusively to lecturing and literary work.




Arthur Walwyn Evans talks—not to please—and yet he always pleases.




He says things you don't like—and still you crave to hear more.




He says things that indicate a reckless disregard for his own platform popularity—yet he has become tremendously popular as a lecturer.




There is a reason for all this.  Dr. Evans has studied and intimately knows the peoples of two great nations.  He knows their problems and tells you of the practical workings of aristocracy and democracy in a way that is profoundly impressive.




Here is where the lecturer who craves 
popular fancy
 would stop, but Dr. Evans goes further—and prescribes.  His medicine is for the evils of society and for the underlying causes behind these conditions.  Sometimes the medicine doesn't taste well, but he prescribes, nevertheless, and you are forced to a realization that you are listening to a man who knows whereof he speaks.  Such is Arthur Walwyn Evans.




It is the speaker of the Evans type who fulfills the real mission of the platform.  Arthur Walwyn Evans is a much-traveled scholar of rare attainments, a gifted orator who creates a profound impression wherever he appears, and a keen analyst of men and affairs.






What America Means to Me



During the twenty-four years Dr. Evans lived in Great Britain he met Gladstone, Queen Victoria, King Edward, Asquith, Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Roberts, Kitchener, General Booth of the Salvation Army, and many other great men and women of England.  He was steeped from childhood in England's political atmosphere and saw history in the making.  He studied social and political conditions from first-hand observation.




Then came his trip to America, and the resolve to make this country his home.  In his tenure on this side of the ocean he has absorbed a wider knowledge of men and affairs than the average person gets in a lifetime.  He tells in this lecture, in plain, trenchant and fearless terms, what is wrong with us here.  But happily, optimistically and convincingly he also tells what's RIGHT with us.  The lecture will stir your patriotism, and you will go home prouder—but not 
chestier.




This lecture has been immensely popular everywhere.  There is a double-barreled viewpoint to 
What America Means to Me
 that is universally liked.





Germany Now and Tomorrow



This lecture deals with first-hand observation by Dr. Evans of the present life, hopes and conditions of the German people, and the part they are to play in the world's affairs.  Having traveled extensively in the land of the Teutons during a period covering sixteen years, and having had splendid and unique opportunities for the study of German life and thought, the lecturer answers in a fair-minded and entertaining manner many questions that Americans are asking.





The Little Red School House



Two hundred thousand men in the U. S. army unable to read and write!  Millions of people living under the flag—and reached only through the medium of a foreign language!  Twice as much spent each year for chewing gum as for school books!  The average teacher's salary less than the day laborer's!  Twenty per cent of our population not in school!




The causes that lead to these conditions make a graphic story in Dr. Evans' lecture.




There are many appealing and sometimes humorous illustrations in this picture, drawn from Dr. Evans' personal observation, in the hundreds of American schools and colleges he has visited in his nation-wide tours.  It will help and inspire any community.






The Press East—West—North—South

EVANS' LECTURE AN EVENT

Dr. Evans seems to be dramatic rather than strictly oratorical, but however his attainments are classified, a lecture by him is an event worth anticipating.—


Middleboro (Mass.) Gazette.




TICKET HOLDERS MADE BEST INVESTMENT OF THEIR LIVES



The subject of his talk was 'What America Means to Me', and if the remaining entertainments are one-half as instructive and entertaining, season ticket purchasers will realize they have made the best investment of their lives.—


El Paso (Texas) Times.





APPLAUDED FOR TWO MINUTES



Not only were we pleased with his talk, but interest ran so high that when he sat down at the conclusion of his address, applause greeted him for fully two minutes.—


Jamestown (N. Y.) Post.





MOST SCHOLARLY LECTURE



Dr. Walwyn Evans, one of the most successful men on the platform today, delivered to a vast audience last night one of the most brilliant, most scholarly, most entertaining lectures ever heard here.—


Napa (Cal.) Daily Register.





SACRAMENTO FOLKS HEAR EVANS



Three thousand persons greeted Arthur Walwyn Evans yesterday afternoon at the tabernacle and heard a splendid lecture on 'What America Means to Me'.  At the conclusion, hundreds sought to shake his hand.—


Sacramento (Cal.) Union.





A PURE FLOOD OF ORATORY



Evans has a lively knowledge of the ways of Uncle Sam, but aside from this, shows his celtic birth in a pure flood of oratory and irresistible wit, and in the high moral stand he takes on all phases of life.—


The Daily Ontario, Belleville, Ont.





SPRINGFIELD SUN COMMENTS EDITORIALLY



Dr. Evans gives a new and broader interpretation of America that consolidates all other interpretations and definitions of America—Unity, Service, Prosperity, Justice and Democracy—into one Fraternity.





FIVE TIMES IN FOUR YEARS



Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. meetings—the largest regular gathering of men, perhaps, in the country.





THREE TIMES AND WE WANT HIM AGAIN



Wilbur, Wash.:  
We want him again as soon as you can let us have him.





ENGLEWOOD, CHICAGO, REQUESTS A FOURTH APPEARANCE



The big Chicago Sunday Evening Club has booked Mr. Evans many times.  The speakers' committee wrote:  
We remember your very successful lectures on former occasions and know it will be but a repetition if we are successful in again securing you.





FOUR YEARS STRAIGHT—OHIO'S LARGEST CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY



—and in 
big
 company—following Bryan, Hillis, Conwell, Gunsaulus and others.  Asked to come back year after year.





ONE—TWO—THREE—STRAIGHT AT—



Erie, Pa.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Brookville, Pa.; Irwin, Pa.; Somerset, Pa.; Ravenna, Ohio.





RETURN ENGAGEMENTS IN INNUMERABLE TOWNS AND CITIES



Brockton, Mass.; Gooding, Idaho; Boise, Idaho; Huntington, Ind.; Nowata, Okla.; Clinton, Okla.; Clarendon, Texas; Marfa, Texas; Eugene, Oregon; Columbia, Ind.; Miami Valley, Ohio; Brigham, Utah; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Columbus, Ohio; Lakeside, Ohio; Winona Lake, Ind.; Grand Island, Neb.; Albion, Neb.; Hiawatha, Kas.; Mattoon, Ill.; Moline, Ill.; Maysville, Mo.; Richmond, Ky.; Whitefield, N. H.; Binghamton, N. Y.; Provo, Utah; Hudson, Mich.; Adrian, Mich.; Cleveland, Ohio.