Alexander Cairns: lecturer

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Alexander Cairns Lecturer



The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs was a most wonderful lecture—
Argus, Greenfield, Ill.


What can you expect from an Irish wit who talks like Niagara Falls, stirs up a batch of snickers and makes you think like a whole university?  That's Dr. Cairns, who lectures on The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs.  When he's done, you'll say, That was worth a season ticket.  You can't guess what the Goose is.  Everybody from two to toothless will be tickled with Cairns.




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The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs

The Chautauqua lecture last night was The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs given by Dr. Alexander Cairns.  His stories were side-splitting, his eloquence unquestionable, his reasoning sound, his wit scintillating, his logic convincing.—
The Star, Otwell, Ind.




Dr. Cairns is known everywhere as both the funniest and most serious man alive.

We must have him again.  His talk was most thoroughly enjoyed.—F. T. Goodman, Secretary Traffic Club




Banquet of the Traffic Club of Philadelphia
at the
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel

Lecture Themes

The Man of Galilee (For Churches)
Poems of Passion and Power (Poetic Recital)
The Old Home Town (Community Betterment)
Hands Across the Sea (Internationalism)
The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs (Educational and Inspirational)
Victor Hugo's Bishop of D- (For Ministers)
Prometheus (For Schools and Commencements)
Humbugs and Mossbacks (After-dinner Speech)
The Golden Age (Popular Social Message)
The College and the Cross (Christian Education)




Dr. Cairns, who spoke at the banquet of the Civic Association last night, has a marvellous gift of oratory.  It was a Niagara of eloquence, wit and humor.
The Press, Mahanoy City, Pa.


Dr. Alexander Cairns certainly struck fire with his after-dinner speech at the Lincoln Birthday banquet of Group 2, Pennsylvania Bankers Association, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia.  Our meeting was brought to a successful climax by that wonderful orator.
J. E. Ferguson, Secretary






Dr. Cairns gave the most eloquent lecture ever heard in this city.—
Owosso, Mich. Press-American


As He Is On the Chautauqua Platform


Dr. Cairns lectured on every circuit of the Community Chautauquas and then the President, L. J. Whiteside, wrote: You always record an achievement, day in and day out.  And H. Z. Freeman, Manager of the Central System, wrote: I regret that we haven't a circuit that you haven't covered.

Dear Dr. Cairns:

I have heard the great speakers of my time, Beecher, Gough, Ingersoll, Woolley and all the rest, but I never heard anything to beat your speech at the John Barleycorn funeral.  It was splendid in delivery, rhetoric, marshalling of facts, directness, interest, wit and humor and in every way.  I think I would give all I have if I could do a thing like that.

Davis W. Lusk, D. D. Stated Clerk Presbytery of Newark


After his speech before the annual banquet of the Orpheus Club of Newark, N. J. the chairman said: All the members of the Orpheus Club who wish to express their gratitude to Dr. Cairns for his inspiring message signify it by rising.  And every man didn't merely rise, but got on the table and cheered to the echo.
Carl Bannwart, Pres.

Alexander Cairns is an Irishman, Teacher, Traveler, Lecturer, Preacher and Poet.  He taught four years in Japan and later as a College Professor in America.  He lectured for Uncle Sam under Herbert Hoover during the World War.  He is an after-dinner speaker and a recitative interpreter of poems of which he has 375 memorized.  He is a constant student of social problems and a teacher of English and Public Speaking.




I believe in Love, the Power Almighty, Maker of Heaven on Earth—Dr. Cairns


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As the Pastor of a great city church, whose building is the finest piece of pure Gothic architecture in America, Dr. Cairns conducts a Sunday Evening Question Box which is frequently broadcasted and reproduced in full page features by a New York syndicate and printed in Sunday newspapers throughout the United States.  Everywhere he meets people who have listened-in on his pulpit.




Dr. Cairns has the eloquence of Ingersoll, the dignity of Bryan and the pep of Billy Sunday—Herbert Leon Cope


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He serves

Lyceums
Chautauquas
Schools
Colleges
Seminaries
Lodges
Fraternities
Women's Clubs
Churches
Parlor Meetings
Conferences
Conventions
Banquets
Recitals
Commencements
Graduations
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
And All





Life is a walk in the woods, you never find the beauties till you get away from the beaten paths—Dr. Cairns


His Poetry Recitals 375 POEMS