Clarence Locke Miller

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Clarence Locke Miller
Redpath



At the present time, January, 1916, there are two questions which most concern the minds of the greater part of the whole of humanity.

The first question is:To what attitude of mind is it essential that humanity shall come, in order that every part of humanity shall not think itself under the necessity to assault, maim, and kill, other parts of humankind?

The second question is:To what attitude of mind is it essential that humanity shall come, in order that every member of the mass be producing and efficient; that reasonable plenty abound of food, clothing, fire, and transportation, so that poverty be abolished; and that the heavy percentage of crime which has its cause in poverty, be abolished too?



THE FIRST LECTURE
A PROPHET OF PEACE
The Sublime Drama of Tolstoy's Career
Carlyle's dumb Russia.  Shakespeare and England; Italy and Dante.  The happening of the world-notable; The voice of Russia.

The compelling interest of the peasant-nobleman.  Nihilism and The Great Change foreshadowed.  The Cossacks; prophetic utterance of Turgenief.  Transition.

Tolstoy at Sevastopol,—soldier in the service of the Tsar.  The night battle; the horrors of war.  The Vision in the darkness, in the presence of death and powder.  A definition of greatness.

Earlier scenes.  University life; the payment of the wager.

Man of letters at St. Petersburg.  Nihilism as a religion.  The cipher code.  What makes a piece of literature great?  Scenes from Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Can success bring satisfaction?  The Everlasting WHY.  At a public execution in Paris.  His brother.  The answer of Science, the various philosophies, and the Ancient Sages to the Everlasting WHY.  The Siberian fable of the Traveler, the beast, the dragon and the two mice.  Despair.  The peasant and the reply of religion to the Everlasting WHY.

A member of the Orthodox Church.  Idolatry of Russia and America.  Mockeries.  The pearls in the many bags of refuse.  Translation of the Gospels, Critique of Dogmatic Theology.  The Pearls.  The Christ-conception of Life.

European militarism.  The teaching of patriotism in the schools of France.  A warning.  Emperor William and the far East; his drawing: chief apostle of the great delusion.  William and Confucius.  Thorns and Bleeding lines of Byron.  What is faith in Christ?  The Triumph of Christianity.  The supreme power of any man whom the Christian notion possesses.  Christ's doctrine and the World's doctrine.  Martyrs to the doctrine of the world.  Apostles to the World's doctrine.

Comparison with Shakespeare and the author of the Book of Job.  Literature after the Great Change.  Court room scene from Resurrection.  Failure of the Criminal law,—the cause.  The freedom of Truth.

Through the Imagination He Appeals to Both the Intellect and the Heart.


What shall one read or not read?  Examples.  G. A. Henty.  Hearst-Brisbane.  Sunday School Literature.  What is co-called trashy literature?  George Eliot and why; Stevenson.  Dickens, Tolstoy,—and why.

Recapitulation.  The Poet of the Russian people, voiceless hitherto.  A Poet of Humanity.  Last hours,—the scene in the unknown railway station in November.  Triumph of the harmony of love.



THE SECOND LECTURE
THE MAGIC WORD
On The Psychology of Deeds
The mind is in its own place; and in itself can make a hell of heaven.

The story of Aladdin and the Magic Garden.

The world an enchanted garden.  The curse of poverty.  In what does the democracy of opportunity inhere?

The humor of Darwinian science; and the tragedy Darwin and the German military philosophy.  Darwin and socialism.  The new Science, the new Philosophy, and Christianity.

Thomas Carlyle and two German philosophers.  The challenge of our world.  The dynamic power of belief.  The Magic Word.

A story of an unknown heroine.  Commerce and Christianity.  The Tariff.  Why is a salesman?  He that taketh a city.

What is a panic?  Story of a country town.

Christianity and the Church.

What is education?  The humor of results.  He who stands in the gap.  The gossamer film, and the height of heaven, separating accomplishment from defeat.

The humor of that provencialism, This is a peculiar town; and the quality of the corresponding personal assumption—My life is surrounded by peculiar conditions.  The humor of second-generation mediocrity,—and the tragedy.

The Democracy of Opportunity.

Story of Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the Witch.  What is education?  I'll be—, I'll be—.  The coming of the good kingdom.  Passing of The Former Things.  The New Heaven and The New Earth.

From the foregoing it may be apparent that these lectures constitute a series, in a general way, upon the theme of The Leavening Power of Ideals.  The first lecture, formulated about the personality of the great idealist of the modern time, modifies (many people indeed are saying it) the fundamental ideals that men live by.  The second lecture proceeds to a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday application for business, industry, and the professions, of the point of view established by the first lecture.




Through the Imagination He Appeals to Both the Intellect and the Heart.



THE IMAGINATION
This is one of the most dramatic lectures we have ever had.—MR. P. J. MOREY, GREENSBURG, O.

His dramatic presentation and clear picture painting thrills his audience.—MASSILLON INDEPENDENT.

Carries his auditors through the various scenes with ever-increasing interest.—GEAUGA LEADER.

The clear-cut and vivid presentation. …—MR. R. WEAVER, SUGAR CREEK, O.



THE INTELLECT
More than ordinarily instructive.—MR. MOREY.

Philosophic truths in popular form.—MASSILLON INDEPENDENT.

Splendid, instructive exposition.—THE GEAUGA LEADER.

The life that answered in itself the great question.—MR. WEAVER.



THE HEART
Among McNutt, Copeland, Ott, … Mr. Miller is not second in reaching the hearts of our people.—MR. MOREY.

The court-room scene … a picture never to be forgotten.—MASSILLON INDEPENDENT.

His heartfelt appeal to the better natures of mankind.—THE GEAUGA LEADER.

Into the heart of humanity the doctrine of love and peace.—MR. WEAVER.



THREE LETTERS CONSERNING THE MILLER LECTURES
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1914.

Mr. M. M. Miller, Pittsburgh, Pa.

My Dear Sir: I had the pleasure of hearing your brother Clarence L. Miller at Richwood on the subject Leo Tolstoy—Prophet of Peace.  It was scholarly and entertaining, impassioned, dramatic.  Mr. Miller adds to the interest of the lecture an intense conviction that what he says is true.  While he gives Tolstoy to his audience he gives Miller also, and this is the best part.  He speaks boldly without being audacious, clearly without being cutting, and sets people to thinking about their own life while he outlines to them the checkered career of his hero.  I should like to hear it again.

Most sincerely yours,
(Signed) S. CLARK RIKER.

Pastor Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.

To the Redpath Bureau, Chicago: Having heard Clarence L. Miller deliver his lecture on Leo Tolstoy, am glad to say that I think it the finest that I have ever heard; the lecturer scoring heavily at all points.

Mr. Miller has a little the advantage in this lecture just now, it being an opportune time for his work on Tolstoy.  For Tolstoy beheld the hellish tragedy of sinful warfare, and just now we are sick of it all, and are anxious to know the cause, and hear of a remedy for it.  And we think we have it in this lecture, for Tolstoy holds before the world continually this: that we are having to do with Truth and Error continually.  And when we have heard them marshalled before us for two hours in an able way, we come from the lecture a greater lover of Truth, and a more terrible hater of Error.

Go hear Miller!  He will fire you with this love and this hate.  Miller has been down in the archives, associating himself with Truth and Error until he comes up radiant with the beauty of Truth and with a ghastly hate of Error.

Afire with the spirit of these associations, Miller comes before his auditors to handle in a masterly way the master minds of the world.  And including these, Jesus Christ is not forgotten, for incidentally He receives the most beautifully reverent mention that the writer has ever heard come from the lecture platform.  We would say, and that most heartily, Godspeed to Mr. Miller.

Transfer, Pa., December 30, 1914.

(Signed) EUGENE S. PADEN.

To the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, Columbus, Ohio:

We as a committee wish to state that on Nov. 17, 1913, Mr. Clarence L. Miller appeared here in his highly entertaining and more than ordinarily instructive lecture, Leo Tolstoy.

This is one of the most dramatic lectures we have ever heard.  And among the many high class speakers you have favored us with in years past, such as Col. Bain, Ott, J. DeWitt Miller, McNutt, Col. Copeland and numerous others who have been with us, Mr. Miller is not second in reaching the hearts of our people or in leaving with them the lesson which his lecture is intended to convey.

We shall want him again in the same lecture (something unusual here), and take great pleasure in recommending him to any lecture course.

(Signed) P. J. MOREY, Chairman, Greensburg, O.

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