The Hon. Harry Phillips: lecturer and preacher

              1915
THIS PRESENTS TO YOU
THE
HON. HARRY PHILLIPS
Lecturer and Preacher
ENGLAND - AMERICA - CANADA

FIELD SECRETARY
SOCIAL SERVICE COMMISSION
PENNSYLVANIA

ADDRESS
1302 W. BUTLER STREET
PHILADELPHIA




MR. PHILLIPS' position as mayor and alderman for many years of West Ham, London, England, that seething, surging district of East London, a district of one hundred thousand toilers, brought him face to face with the social and religious problems of great cities.  His solution of a way out of the present labor unrest is the principle of co-operation and co-partnership in the fullest and fairest sense.  He has already spoken hundreds of times since coming to America.  His lectures are unusually dramatic and powerful, and bear mainly upon his sociological and political experiences.
East London, the London of Dickens, with its slums, its lodging houses, opium dens, thieves' kitchens, its docks and river by night, its hopes and despairs, its joys and tragedies; West London with its wealth and culture, beauty and luxury, its leaders of fashion and thought, its hotels, parks, clubs, shops and stores, its society's drawing rooms, its glare and glitter, form the social contrasts which are the basis of Mr. Phillips' lecture, Twice Around the Clock.
The men and women of all classes and all ages thrown upon the waste heap by modern society; the man and woman of lost reputation who never come under the heading of Wanted in the advertising columns, are the motifs for his lecture Human Waste Heaps.  Mr. Phillips claims that they can't be left there.  It is uneconomical as well as unethical; they are a dead weight on the civic and social uplift of the city.
The unemployed, the drunkard, the damaged-goods woman, the feeble minded, the first offender, the little child in the waste-heap—for all of these problems he advances a practical solution in a great, human, inspiring talk, full of smiles as well as tears, showing the splendid possibilities in the hearts of these various types of manhood and womanhood on these waste heaps.

CHAUTAUQUA NEWS, 1915.




Some Press Notices and Endorsements
Your lecture on Eugenics was considered the finest this season, and we have this season had some of America's best-known lectures.  You must come to us again.

—Battleboro (Vermont) Women's Club.


Mr. Phillips delivered a magnificent lecture, entitled All Night in East London.  He is a born orator; his great forte is the strong, human way he appeals to his audience, and his wonderful grip of word painting.  He makes his subjects live, and holds his audience from first to last.—
The Bradford Observer.


The Committee was fortunate in securing the services of Alderman Phillips of London.  He is one of the most effective platform speakers on social questions in England.  Mr. Phillips has all the force and grip of a labor leader in holding his working-class audience.  His speech was the speech of a statesman; his was a call for Social Unity, not for Class War.  His humor and pathos were irresistible.—
Gloucester Times.

Every Church and every Labor organization in the United States should hear Mr. Phillips lecture on The Church and Labor Problems.

Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis.

From his first sentence he held the closest attention of the audience, both by his subject matter and his most effective delivery.  His eloquence at times is of the finest type, and through his whole address there was moral and spiritual earnestness that was most impressive.  He is a man to hear and remember.

—Dr. J. Herman Randall, Pastor, Mt. Morris Baptist Church, New York.

Your lecture was splendid, one of the best we have heard.—

(Late) Elbert Hubbard, East Aurora.




LECTURE SUBJECTS
Social and National

1
A NATION IN THE MAKING
Mr. Phillips claims that the soundness of the Bricks is more important than the form of the building.  He deals with The Child—The Home—The City—The Church—as mighty forces in Nation Building.
This is a big Human Gripping Talk for all who think.

2
AMERICA AFTER THE WAR
Mr. Phillips claims that after the war, the Financial and Industrial supremacy of the World will pass into the hands of America.
The sceptre of Leadership will be hers.  How will she lead?  What will she lead up to.  This is a fine appeal to American Patriotism without jingoism and militarism.

3
GOD'S PASSIONLESS REFORMERS
The influence of Art, Music, Flowers on dark and sordid lives.
An hour of Pathos, Humour and Glorious Optimism.

4
THE INDUSTRIAL AND RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA
This is an up to the minute talk on Church and Labor.  Mr. Phillips speaks as an expert, being Honorary Trustee of one of England's great Labor Unions.  He claims that Labor must have a great Religious urge at the back of all future developement.  Economies only has become a spent force.  That the church must preach and live more and more the Social Gospel of the Christ if she is to draw all men unto her.
This is essentially a talk for the churches that have been inspired and helped by Billy Sunday's great work, and all men's meetings.


Mr. Phillips holds his License as a Lay Preacher from the Bishop of London, England, and the Degree of A. K. C., King's College, England.