Colonel George W. Bain

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Col. Geo. W. Bain
UNDER MANAGEMENT OF
ALKAHEST LYCEUM SYSTEM
ENGLISH-AMERICAN BLDG.
ATLANTA, GA.



COL. GEO. W. BAIN The Kentucky Orator
COL. BAIN is one of the most widely known and generally successful popular lecturers the Lyceum has ever known.  A short time ago one of his contemporaries who has traveled this country over and over, and has himself delivered more than five thousand lectures, said: Col. Bain has done more good than any other man on the American platform.  No audience ever felt the sway of his oratory without a vision of a great personality, matchless in character, masterful in brain, sympathetic in heart and sublime in purpose.

Col. Bain is just in his prime, doing the best work of his life.  He has a phenomenal Chautauqua record.  The call exceeds the number of available dates from year to year.  His record at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, is without a parallel, unless it be that of Dr. J. M. Buckley of Chautauqua, N. Y.  He has lectured for hundreds of Chautauquas, lyceums, schools, colleges and societies throughout the United States with never a dissatisfied audience.  The universal report is He pleased, instructed, and did us good.  We want him again.

When you want a man who will charm your people and give them something worth while, send for Col. Geo. W. Bain, the Kentucky orator.



LIST of SUBJECTS

Among the Masses, or Traits of Character
A Searchlight of the Twentieth Century
The New Woman and the Old Man
Platform Experiences
Boys and Girls, Nice and Naughty
If I Could Live Life Over
The Golden Gate, or Age and Land in Which We Live
The Safe Side of Life for Young Men (Temperance)
Our Country, Our Homes and Our Duty (Temperance)



An Unparalleled Record
The figures indicate how many times Col. Bain has lectured at the following Chautauquas



Ocean Grove, N. J.
36


Quacker Rally, Ind.
20


Glyndon Park, Md.
24


Chickering Hall, New York City
16


Lexington, Ky., Chautauqua and University Course
12


Dixon, Ill., Assembly
11


Crete, Neb., Assembly
9


Allerton, Iowa, Assembly
10


Clarinda, Iowa, Assembly
9


Ottawa, Kan., Assembly
8


Silver Lake, N. Y.
22


Fremont Temple, Boston
12


Moundsville, W. Va.
20


Toronto, Can., League Course
17


Chautauqua, N. Y.
12


Springdale, Ark., Assembly
9


Spirit Lake, Iowa, Assembly
8


Mountain Lake Park, Md.
12


Bay View, Mich., Assembly
9


Lake Side, Ohio
6






Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, Chicago Ill.—Col. Bain took, several years back, the place in public esteem and affection which was once occupied by John B. Gough.  From that time he has been growing in depth of intellectual and spiritual life, and in his effectiveness and charm as an orator.  He is sensible and witty, luminous and wise, eloquent and just.  I know of no more wholesome influence in our American public life than the career and message of this rich and vital man.  I have seen him move the most apparently unmovable audience to tears, laughter, and a passionate loyalty to high ideals.  His friendship has been an honor to me.

Dr. Robt. McIntyre, Los Angeles, Cal.—Twenty-five years ago, when a young preacher, I heard Geo. W. Bain.  That lecture was a golden milestone in my journey of life.  I measure much of my success from that day.  He showed me how wisdom, poctry, humor, pathos and eloquence could be smelted in the furnace of a fine heart by the fire of a holy purpose and minted into coins of choicest speech to enrich souls for all time.  Reckoning all the gifts needed for enduring success, there is not his superior on the platform today.

Dr. R. S. MacArthur, New York—Geo. W. Bain belongs to the elect circle of the platform.  In his lectures valuable instruction and noble inspiration beautifully blend.  It is delightful to precede or succeed him in any course.  He and his lectures are the synonym of intelligence, popular power and righteous inspiration.

Rev. Russell H. Conwell, of Philadelphia, Pa.—He is a popular orator in its most attractive sense and is the most widely known of any lecturer of today.

T. L. Trawick, President Crystal Springs, Miss., Chautauqua, says—Col. Bain opened our Chautauqua with three lectures.  One of our directors said he would be willing to cancel dates with all others and have Bain for the rest of the session.

Dr. W. L. Davidson, Chautauqua Superintendent.—Geo. W. Bain is one of the strongest and most lovable men of the platform.  I use him whenever I can get him.  He has given my patrons as complete satisfaction as any I have ever had.  I repeat him year after year because my patrons demand it.

Dr. D. F. Fox, of Chicago, says—Geo. W. Bain is unquestionably the best exponent of true Southern eloquence today.  His masterly treatment of important themes, his marvelous command of pure wholesome English, in which great ideas overlap the sentences at both ends, his voice of musical modulation, and his appropriate gestures all unite in making a lecture the equal of which one seldom hears.  He is one of the best drawing cards on the platform and committees engaging him win the enthusiastic gratitude of their patrons.

L. O. Jones, President Nebraska Epworth Assembly, Lincoln, Nebr.—He is a prince on the platform and no orator I have ever heard holds an audience more closely or sends them away happier.  I never heard Col. Bain utter a dull sentence.  His lectures are brimful of sparkling pure humor and helpfulness.

A. C. Folsom, President Pontiac, Ill., Chautauqua, says—He is not only brilliant and popular, but his lectures are laden with truth and instruction.


Lexington, Ky., Leader
—Never in the history of Lexington has a speaker more honored or more loved stood upon the lecture platform than Col. George W. Bain.  No people appreciate him more or love him better than his own.

Bishop C. C. McCabe said—Those who hear Col. Bain once desire to hear him again and again.  His lectures are religious and patriotic.  Like threads of gold and silver blended into one, the two noblest motives of human activity are constantly discernible.  May he live long to grace the American platform.


The Only Sam Jones said—It has been my privilege to hear and enjoy Col. George W. Bain.  If he had not been all pure gold, he would have exposed the spurious long ago.  He wears like home-made jeans.  He sparkles like a diamond.  He effervesces like soda water, and is as solid as a stone mountain.  He is today one of the purest men I have ever known.  He is all wool, a yard wide, and a foot thick.  He is better than any course dinner I have ever set down to.

Hon. Champ Clark, Member of Congress, said in Metropolitan Press—I had the exquisite pleasure of hearing Geo. W. Bam at the Fort Smith Chautauqua in Arkansas.  The audience was splendid.  For over an hour he swayed his hearers as the storm king sways the forest.  The way that Col. Bain played upon that weird harp of a thousand strings, the human heart, was a revelation to me.  I shall always remember that hour as one of the most ecstatic of my life.

Rev. A. A. Willetts, called the grand old man of the platform, says—I consider Col. Geo. W. Bain one of the most eloquent, interesting and useful lecturers of the American platform.  His language is chaste and beautiful, his sentiments pure and lofty, and his illustrations refined.  His lectures do unspeakable good.  God speed him!  And God spare him to us long!

L. H. Maus, Manager Sidney, Ia., Chautauqua, says—He was unanimously pronounced the best of the program and we had the best of the land.  He is the most successful lecturer I have ever had on my platform.


The McConnelsburg (Pa.) Democrat
—Referring to Among the Masses, says: It is no exaggeration to say that the general opinion of the audience was that this was the most entertaining and impressive lecture ever listened to by our people.  The lecture more than pleased—it made better every one who heard it.


Indianola (Ia.) Advocate Tribune
—If the management had searched the American lecture field it could not have found a lecturer who would have afforded its patronage the genuine pleasure, the vast amount of practical, statistical information, the brilliant up-to-date ideas and the sound logical conclusions, that Col. Geo. W. Bain, of Lexington, Ky., did in his truly wonderful subject, The Twentieth Century Searchlight.


Cincinnati Enquirer
—Every seat in the Grand Opera House was taken yesterday afternoon at the Unity Club Lecture.  The immense audience was drawn by Col. George W. Bain, of Lexington, Ky.  The lecture fairly bristled with apt illustrations, gems of poetry, brilliant humor, interesting anecdotes, and noble thoughts that touched the hearts of the hearers.


Grand Junction County Daily Searchlight
—It is safe to say that no number of the present great lecture course has given more sincere pleasure and complete satisfaction than the lecture delivered last night at the Congregational church by Col. George W. Bain, the Kentucky orator and lecturer and dean of the American platform.  Col. Bain's subject was The Searchlight of the Twentieth Century and a more wholesome, eloquent, powerful, thoughtful or a more richly entertaining lecture has rarely ever, if ever, been delivered in Grand Junction.  There was a lesson and diamond of value in every sentence of the lecture.


Ocean Grove (N. J.)
—When every seat and spot for camp chairs had been packed, the crowd filled the aisles, altar place, stand and even sat on the reporters' tables.  The hymns were sung, and in due time Mr. Bain modestly entered upon an address which for logical power, imagery, and absorbing interest has never been surpassed at Ocean Grove.  Like wave on wave there were ripples of merriment succeeded by emotion and tears, until the grand climax which brought that mass of humanity to their feet to wave the orator their hearty good wishes.

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