Euclid B. Rogers

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EUCLID B. ROGERS
Under Management, Season 1910–11
Mr. M. Edwin Johnson,
East St. Louis, Illinois.

Redpath-Dayton Lyceum Bureau



The Twentieth Century Church.
The Inalienable Rights of Every Child.
The End of Education, Not Learning but Life.
The World Climbing Up God's Altar Stairs.
America as the World-Leader.
His Last Week; Including His Trial and Condemnation From a Legal Standpoint.



WHO IS HE
Born in the Chenango Valley in the state of New York.  Educated at the Norwich Academy and Colgate University.  A fraternity man.  A base-ball player and all-round athlete.  Read law and edited a weekly paper.  Admitted to the bar at Albany.  Ordained to the gospel ministry by his home church, Norwich, N. Y.  For twenty years growing up with the great Central West.  His ministry, every year of it, rated a success.  An interested student of men and movements.  Alert and alive.  Human to the last drop of his red blood, and allied in heartful fashion to humanity in its needs, aspirations, achievements and hopes.  That's Euclid B. Rogers, of Springfield, Illinois.



What the Press Says

Democrat-Message, Mt. Sterling, Ill.
—The address was masterly, eloquent, extremely patriotic, commanding the closest attention of the large audience throughout its delivery.


Burlington Hawk-Eye
—Mr. Rogers opened his address with a humorous anecdote, which set the audience in a roar.  As usual with this gifted orator, his lecture evidenced careful preparation, and combined with its material matter interludes of humor and pathos, which served to hold the keen attention of his hearers throughout.


Gazette, Burlington, Iowa
—His magnificent address will long be remembered with feelings of pleasure by the large concourse that heard it.  Dr. Rogers is an orator and a thinker of transcendent merit, and his effort crowned the day's exercises with a halo.


Williamsville (Ill.) Paper
—Dr. Rogers is one of the most eloquent speakers in the State.  There is a rich vein of wit and humor in his talk, and a whole lot of common sense.  He never fails to delight his audience, and is in great demand all over the Central West as a lecturer.


Illinois State Register, Springfield
—Mr. Rogers delivered the address of the evening, which was one of his characteristically brilliant, eloquent, and powerful efforts.  His hearers were fairly lifted at times with splendid bursts of oratory, to be followed immediately with convulsions of laughter, beautiful and humorous illustrations abounding.


Burlington Hawk-Eye
—No adequate idea could be given of the eloquence of the speaker of the evening, and the vigor and thoughtful tone of his address.


Old Salem Chautauqua Leaflet
—He is widely known for his intense consecration to his work, his direct and forceful eloquence, and his broad, fraternal spirit.


The Anchor and Shield
—Mr. Rogers is gifted with rare talents, and as an orator has few equals.  He soars into realms of magnificent grandeur and lifts his audience and carries it body and soul along with him.  In his earnestness all else is forgotten by the audience as the silvery words of wisdom and truth are poured out as if from a fountain of boundless capacity.


Hardin County (Iowa) Citizen
—For nearly an hour and a half Mr. Rogers held the audience at his will.  He is an orator equalled by few and surpassed by none.  One lady, in passing out, was heard to remark: I have heard Wendell Phillips and Henry Ward Beecher, but I think Mr. Rogers excels them both.


Iowa Falls Paper
—Some of the climaxes were the boldest flights of oratory to which we have ever listended.


State Journal, Springfield, Ill.
—Many passages by the eloquent speaker touched the popular chord so decisively that the most natural response was in spontaneous cheers and hand-clapping.  His words were words of fire, glowing with patriotic fervor.


A Denominational Weekly
—Rogers has a big heart.  He stands at the head of great pulpit orators of the day.


Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph
—Dr. Rogers is one of the big men of his denomination.


State Journal, Springfield, Ill.
—Mr. Rogers is rated among the finest pulpit orators in the State.




More of What The Press Says

Champaign (Ill.) Daily Gazette
—With this preliminary, Dr. Rogers brought up to his subject, the Life of Abraham Lincoln, a subject which every man had heard told time after time, under all conditions, and by all kinds of people, but never as Dr. Rogers told it.  The story of the life of the greatest man of this country was carefully woven, eloquently presented, and there was not a stir in the whole room until Dr. Rogers had finished, when the silence was broken by an applause which more than made up for all the silence which preceded it.


Clayton (Ill.) Enterprise
—Himself a specimen of physical vigor and noble manhood, possessed of rare ability to command attention, the orator held the vast crowd entranced by every word and gesture.


Saturday Review, Springfield, Ill.
—Mr. Rogers is a man of deep convictions on all practical questions of the day, nor does he hesitate to give forcible expression to these convictions.  His immense audience was so carried away by his sledge-hammer blows and patriotic periods that they again and again broke over the reserve generally expected in a church on Sunday, and enthusiastically applauded the sentiments which fired their hearts.


Lincoln (Ill.) News
—Dr. Rogers has been heard here before, and those who were acquainted with his manner of delivery, his eloquence of utterance, and his prepossessing manner, while prepared for an eloquent address, were instructed and entertained for fully one and one-half hours.  It was one of the finest efforts ever heard in this city.



What His Friends Say
Judge Charles P. Kane, of Springfield, Ill.—During his pastorate of one of the strongest churches in this city, Dr. Rogers has been accorded a conspicuous place in public favor, both as a man of aesthetic culture and refined literary taste, and as a preacher of force and rare pulpit power.

The Reverend Austen K. De Blois, D. D., Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Chicago—I have known Dr. Euclid B. Rogers for many years.  His personality grips one the first time of meeting.  He makes and holds friends because of his great heart, his big brain, and his wonderful knowledge of men and things.  For many years this magnetic and most eloquent preacher has been a student of literature and of history, ranging over wide fields and systematizing his study and reading as he went vigorously forward.  He combines, in a rare degree, the gifts of the literary critic, the student of human nature, and the orator.

The Reverend R. H. Claxon, of Morrisonville, Ill.—As a lecturer Dr. Rogers has few equals in this country.  He is forceful, logical, and dramatic.  He has a message that all who are looking for a guiding star in our present social storm should hear.

Fred Emerson Brooks, the California orator-poet, says: Dr. Rogers is a scholar and an orator.

Mr. John H. Neher, for eight years Secretary of the Business Men's Association, Springfield, Ill.—Dr. Euclid B. Rogers is a man preacher.  Man first, and that's one of the reasons he got such a tremendous grip on the business and professional life of our city.  At all our public functions we always felt at liberty to call on Rogers, and he always responded in his own unique, inimitable way.  Rogers carries the goods.

The Reverend Andrew H. Harnly, State Evangelist and Popular Lecturer, says: I have known Dr. Euclid B. Rogers many years, and I have heard him often and under varied circumstances.  He never stoops to the ordinary or commonplace.  He knows life.  He keeps his great, warm heart beating up to and in tender sympathy with the world's aching heart.  He knows; and it is that that makes him the man with a message and a mission.  He thinks mighty thoughts, and he tells them in a way to grip men's hearts and stir their consciences.  In the matter and the manner of his messages he has few peers in pulpit or on platform.  He may have a superior, but I have not heard him, and I have heard several.

Hon. Joseph Carter, Member General Assembly, State of Illinois, Champaign—It has been my pleasure and my profit to hear Dr. Euclid B. Rogers speak from the pulpit and from the platform quite frequently of late, and always he has impressed me as in all respects as able as any lecturer or orator to whom I have listened in the last decade.  He has grand things to say, and he says them grandly; and, more than this, he himself is a grand man, with grand ideals, capable of raising others to his high plane of thinking.

Mr. Ernest A. Scrogin, Assistant State Superintendent Anti-Saloon League of Illinois—If you want to hear a speaker who will thrill you, charm you, and stir you with a passion for the doing of good and great things, you should hear Dr. Euclid B. Rogers.  He is an orator in the truest sense.  He possesses the consummate power to persuade and to move to action.




What Other of His Friends Say
President Leavitt, of Ewing College, writes: Dr. Euclid B. Rogers is one of our most eloquent preachers.

The Reverend M. P. Boynton, D. D., Pastor of the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago—It is easy to say one is a great preacher, but in the case of Dr. Euclid B. Rogers it is all true.  He is one of the most powerful public speakers on the American platform today.  His style is direct, and his delivery is full of force.  The way in which he presents his theme is almost unique.  He compels thought, while at the same time entertaining his auditor.  He is an inspirational, easily remembered, most helpful orator.

Mr. J. H. Collins, for more than twenty-five years Superintendent of Schools of the city of Springfield, Ill.—During the past eighteen years it has been my privilege to hear Rev. Euclid B. Rogers, D. D., deliver addresses on many and various occasions.  As a popular platform orator he ranks among the best.  Whether in the pulpit, at a High School or college commencement, or before a Chautauqua assembly, he is always instructive and entertaining, and never fails to delight his audiences.  Dr. Rogers is a man of high ideals and of sincere purpose; an intense student of men and things; very resourceful as to subject-matter and illustrations, and most original in manner and method of presenting his lectures.

The Reverend E. W. Lounsbury, D. D., Secretary Lake District of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Chicago, says—This certifies that Rev. Euclid B. Rogers, D. D., is, in my opinion, the finest platform speaker and one of the ablest preachers in this or in contiguous states.  Every sentence a gem, which charms while it penetrates; which convinces while it delights.  He can grace any platform and fill any audience with admiration.  His dramatic power is one of his chief attractions.  Had he chosen the stage there had been no rival.

Dr. Rogers was the grand orator of the Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M., of the State of Illinois, 1909, and pronounced the oration at Medinah Temple, Chicago, October 13th, and in a personal letter, Hon. Alexander H. Bell, M. W. Grand Master, said—I most earnestly thank you for your splendid oration.  It shed luster upon my administration, and, while it honored the Grand Lodge, it won you lots of friends in every section of our State.

In a personal letter by one of the leading men in his denomination the writer says—It is said by several of our strongest Baptist ministers and laymen in Chicago that when Dr. Euclid B. Rogers and Charles S. Morris, the celebrated colored orator, spoke at the Illinois State Convention a few years since, each speaking an hour, they were the finest specimens of oratory ever heard in the State, not excepting the great debate between Lincoln and Douglas.

Hon. E. L. Chapin, Attorney, Springfield, Ill.—For seventeen years, 1892 to 1909, Dr. Rogers was the loved pastor of the Central Baptist Church of this city.  He is an ideal man, physically, mentally and spiritually.  As a pulpit orator he holds his audience from the beginning until the last word is spoken.  High and low; rich and poor; learned and unlearned—all—hang on his words as he points the despondent upward; throws a loving arm around the weak and erring; directs the self-satisfied to a higher life, and hurls mighty thunderbolts into the ranks of evil.  On the lecture platform he towers like a giant; his equals are few, and dull, indeed, is the listener who feels not the charm of the occasion.  For seventeen years no church event or business men's banquet seemed quite complete unless he acted either as toastmaster or after-dinner speaker.  It was enough to announce Rogers, and every chair would be filled.  Wit lent him her choicest arrows; wisdom furnished the bow, and the English language the arm of steel.  He is the master of the first; the lover of the second, and the mighty commander of the last.  In Rev. Euclid B. Rogers a great heart beats; a great brain directs; a great purpose controls; a heart that in sympathy touches your heart and mind; a brain that in power commands the situation; a purpose that in reality tells for the betterment of the world.

(Mr. Chapin is President of the Board of Trustees of Bettie Stuart Institute; for several years President of the Business Men's Association; President (1909) Illinois State Y. M. C. A.)



UNITED STATES COURTS,
JUDGES' CHAMBERS,
Springfield, Illinois.

To whom it may concern:

This is to certify that for nearly twenty years I have been intimately acquainted with Dr. Euclid B. Rogers, formerly pastor of the Central Baptist Church at this place.

Dr. Rogers is a scholar of the highest attainments; a pulpit orator of rare ability, who has the power to secure and hold the attention of men.  He is fervid and magnetic; a bold speaker, who thinks with integrity and carries conviction.  I regard him as one of the best platform orators in the country.

Yours very truly,
J O. HUMPHREY. (Federal Judge.)