Lincoln McConnell

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Lincoln McConnell


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L
INCOLN McCONNELL was a son of a Tennessee lawyer and was early trained in the study of law.  At the close of his college career he went West and became a cowboy, but later returned to the South, where he became a policeman on the Atlanta police force.  He was soon promoted to the position of detective, in which capacity he served for four years, and still later acted as assistant to the solicitor in the criminal court for two years.




Converted While a Policeman



He was converted while a member of the police force and determined that he would spend his time in uplifting men rather than in putting them in jail.  Since that time he has been able to help thousands.  His experience in dealing with criminals makes him an authority on the subject 
Crime and Lawlessness,
 which is one of his lecture topics.




Mr. McConnell served for a time as pastor of the down-town People's Church in Atlanta, where his congregations often reached 2,000, and where he built up a great down-town movement.  His work as an evangelist is well known.





Has Made Over 8,000 Public Addresses


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He has made over 8,000 public addresses in the last twelve years, and wherever he has gone he is universally conceded to be one of the most original, forceful and unique speakers before the public.





He is a natural wit and humorist, and, without the slightest straining after it, gets into instant touch with his audience, and they laugh or cry as he wills, though they laugh more than they cry, for he says the world has enough to cry over without his adding to it.




His Lectures Dispel the Blues


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But his success as a public speaker is not accounted for solely by his wit and humor.  His lectures are not 
a mere string of stories,
 for he believes that life is two short for you or him to laugh over nothings when there are plenty of things helpful to be laughed over.  Thousands have come to hear McConnell with heavy hearts and feeling that life was hardly worth the effort, and have gone away with the blues dispelled and hope in their hearts, made better and more able to fight the battles of life, by the uplifting message of cheer that he so delights to give.




If you want to feel glad that you are living and have a share in the battles of life, then hear McConnell.



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An Appreciation by Charles F. Horner



Lincoln McConnell's varied experience and his training as a lawyer were just the thing to fit him for the lyceum.




In his experiences, he came to have the right view of the things that are of keenest interest to the average man.  In his study and practice of law, he learned to present these ideas that his experience gave him in a forceful and convincing way.




From a place on a big detective force to the pastorate of a down-town church is usually a long jump and yet he made that jump in a very short time.  It has been said that in all of his great religious addresses he never once made an appeal to emotion.  He succeeded by logical argument.  He is so Southern, that it is the first thing you would say of him.  You see it in his Southern charm of manner and the accent in his speech.




If he is humorous, it is not just for the fun of the thing.  He understands more of the vernacular of the different classes of people than anyone we know of and it comes from an association with these different classes.




In the handling of his lecture themes he talks in the language of the people.  His is a style all its own.  And it is this powerful grip on human nature; this magnetic and yet lovable personality that draw and hold people to him.




These are the qualities that make Lincoln McConnell the great orator he is.  His great opportunities he is using in pulling men everywhere into a broader view of things.






SYNOPSIS OF McConnell's Lectures
The Blue Coat and the Red Flag 
or
 Lawlessness; Its Cause and Cure

A lecture that deals directly with the cause of the excessive criminality in our land.  Why do we have ten times as many murders in proportion to population than England?  Twenty times as many as Germany, etc.?  Did you know that we have had over 175,000 murders in America in the past twenty-five years?  More lynchings than legal executions?




Why are our law-making bodies, our law-enforcing machinery, and our courts held in such slight esteem as we know them to be today?  
These are vital questions.




Expect a redhot presentation of cold facts when you hear this lecture.  Which side of the crime question are 
you
 on?  Where are 
your
 sympathies?  With the law and the state, or the criminal?




Does It Pay?



An oldtime question with a newtime application.  A searching inquiry into the present day conditions and the reasons for them.




Whose country is this?
  Why are things as they are Economically, Politically, Religiously, Socially?




Too many people 
watching the game thru a knot hole instead of the grand stand!




A live, down-to-the-minute discussion of present day conditions and needs, presented in such snappy good humor as to make Sectionalism, Partizanship and Sectarianism see themselves and yet take no offense, while social evils and things menacing the home are shown in their true light.




A lecture for today—a thought producer.





Colored Folks as I Know Them A Lecture in Two Parts


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FIRST—The question from a new angle, showing some unpublished facts that tend to cause a better understanding between the sections.  The three great events in the negroes' history.  Slavery, Emancipation and Enfranchisement, and what they meant to him.  Did you know why the 
Klu Klux
 were organized?  The present day conditions.  The outlook.  No 
impending crisis.
  No race war in sight.  Situation growing less, rather than more acute, etc.




SECOND — The humorous side of 
Colored Folks.
  Superstitious fancies, personal peculiarities, religious extravagancies, etc., etc., told by a past master of negro delineators.




This is a lecture with a motive, and that to show facts that ought to create a kindlier feeling on the 
race question
 and hence remove 
sectionalism
 in that regard, and second to create a sympathy, because of a better understanding, for the negro as an individual.




Dead Lions



An inspirational lecture, based on a biblical story.  Built primarily to inspire young men and women to ambition, action, faith and love; it deals with the counterfeits of these qualities and is presented in such fashion as to impress old truths with new force.  This is one of Mr. McConnell's oldest lectures and has been given more than five hundred times, as many as three times in one year to the same audience, as they would have nothing else, and repeated very many times.  It gives the fullest opportunity for the remarkable ability of Mr. McConnell as an actor, impersonator and story teller, and it is as much an entertainment as a lecture.  Nothing like it on the lecture platform.





The Fountain of Youth


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A lecture dealing directly with the question of man's innate longing for 
life,
 an answer to the question 
what is man?
 proving scientifically that man is not a mere material being.  A logical, unanswerable argument against infidelity and agnosticism, and in favor of the inspiration of the teachings of the Bible.  
What the hygienic laws of Moses were to the bodies of those who obeyed them.
  What the moral law was and is to the Spiritual man.  The Decalogue is simply the hygienic law of the soul.  Proven.




An analysis of the water that will satisfy man's innate longing for youth,




Scientific.  Philosophical.  Instructive.




A Happy Home and How to Make It



Dealing directly with the greatest question of our day.  Original presentation; filled with humorous illustration; this commonplace subject becomes new and interesting.  Given hundreds of times, the very best results are known to have attended its giving in many places.  Matrimonial ships that seem destined for the rocks have been saved, and many a home made happier.  Deals with every phase of the home question in pointed and powerful manner.





The American Octopus



A lecture dealing directly with the liquor traffic which is handled without gloves and in original fashion.  An appeal to reason, business sense, patriotism and humanity, this lecture drives center with a bolt of fire.





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