"The Man With a Smile.": William F. Hertel

              William F. Hertel



Lectures that Bring Hope and Help

The Man With a Smile
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UNDER MANAGEMENT OF 
THE CRESCENT LYCEUM BUREAU OMAHA, NEBR.





AN INTRODUCTION



W
HAT the people who come to Lyceum Courses and Chautauqua Assemblies desire to hear above all things to-day is a man whose heart is full of human sympathies and whose head is full of noble, instructive thoughts which can be expressed in words that sound good to the ear and then enter and touch the heart.  A man with a message that helps people to think better, feel better, and live better—that is the demand in Lyceum work to-day.




Such a man we present in William F. Hertel.  To hear his eloquent words as he pleads for the fallen, to listen to his charming words as he calls us to nobler, happier ways of life is to feel that here is a man whom it pays to hear, and whose advice it pays to follow.  This is high priase for any platform man, but deserved by the man whose lectures we offer to the public.




Especially does the work of such a man tell for good when he is able to tell his message in a way that attracts and holds the attention of the young and old because his delivery is not only eloquent, but entertaining.  The heaviest truths, the most telling illustrations, and the profoundest convictions are set forth in a pleasing manner, by a personality magnetic and forceful.




This Bureau recommends Mr. Hertel and his lectures to all who desire to hear about things worth while, and give the people something of value for the days to come as well as to-day.  Try one lecture, and you will want another.




THE MANAGEMENT.






WILLIAM F. HERTEL
A Short Sketch of the Man and His Work.

WILLIAM F. HERTEL was born in the old Mormon town of Nauvoo, Illinois.  He went to school in a little red country school on the prairies of Nebraska, attended Wartburg college at Clinton, Iowa, and graduated from the Wartburg Theological Seminary.  Ordained into the ministry and entered the mission work of the church, working in various fields, on the plains of Texas, among the coal miners, the zinc mills of Illinois and the waving corn fields of Iowa.  Somehow, he got next to the people.  They liked him.  Husbands would tell him all their troubles with their wives; wives told him all their trials and woes.  He had sense enough never to tell.  It is a good thing for people to have some one to whom to tell their troubles and yet know that they shall remain a secret.  And so he was able to learn the thoughts, desires and troubles of the common people, besides doing much good by giving them some straight, common-sense advice.




One evening while sitting in his study he received a hurry call to a certain house of ill-fame to administer to a dying inmate.  A 
White Slave
 was about to pass into eternity.  The simple confession he heard there opened his eyes to the awful depth into which our girls are drugged and enticed and beaten.  That was the beginning of his rescue work; his fight against vice.  He has also been connected with other works of charity, being a member of the board of trustees of the Orphans' and Old Peoples' Home at Muscatine, Iowa.




A burning desire to tell his fellowmen about the help they can render the fallen, and the success they can achieve in their own lives, has brought him upon the Lyceum Platform.  Lecture Courses and Chautauquas who want 
A Man With A Message
 are invited to give him a trial.





His Subjects:



The Girl Who Cannot Come Back.
An up-to-date lecture on White Slavery and the girl of the street.  Deals with this matter in plain, open, yet chaste language.  Not a lot of statistics, but facts learned through personal work in the field.  It will show you the barred window of the house of ill-fame; it will show you the methods used by the buyer of human flesh and soul to procure fresh victims.  It will take you into the 
Red Light
 district of our cities and show you the conditions that actually exist; and it will show you how this grave danger effects you.  No one can hear this message without feeling in his heart the necessity of doing something to help the girl to come back.  It has never yet failed to please, and it has opened the eyes of thousands to see the awful evil at our door.





The Latch String to Happiness.



This is a little message for your heart when it is heavy.  Not an abstract lecture of the college oration style, full of generalities, but a vital, practical way to sunshine and laughter.  It has been taught him by his own experience and he knows.  It will make you laugh and weep—and better still, make you think.





The Masqueraders of Life.



On the stage of life too many players are mummers—too many are wearing masks.  So crowded are the pathways of life with maskers that sometimes one wonders if all the world is not a masquerade.  This lecture is an attempt to snatch the mask from the face of the mummers and expose the hypocrites.  It fights sham and hypocricy to the last ditch, and gives them no quarters.  A helpful, uplifting, and inspiring lecture.




NOTE—There are no testimonials on this page—the place they usually put them.  Not that I have none to show, for both brick-bats and bouquets have been handed my way.  The bouquets do not count, they are wilted and forgotten, and the brick-bats—well, if I must confess, have served their purpose in making me a better man.






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