Dean W.J. Lhamon

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Dean W. J. Lhamon


DEAN W. J. LHAMON
W. J. Lhamon, formerly Dean of the Bible College of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., later Dean of the Bible School of Drury College, Springfield, Mo., has held pastorates in Minneapolis, Minn., Toronto, Canada, and Pittsburg, Pa.

He is an author whose works have called out such unsolicited praise as the following from the New York Independent, which says of one of his books: An unusually rich series of sermons, expository, descriptive, practical.  They come from a scholarly mind.  Of the same book the Outlook of New York said, In our judgment there is great advantage in such a series of essays as this volume, making the reader acquainted with special books in their entirety, and so with the Bible as literature.

In his position as Dean of the Bible College, of Missouri, he was greeted by large classes of University students, and his work embraced such themes as New Testament Introduction, Comparative Religion, Literature of the Bible and Church History.  He enjoyed an equally popular career as Dean of the School of the Bible in Drury College, during a period of nine years.


ON DRURY COLLEGE CAMPUS



BONDURANT LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
In the fall of 1911 Mr. Lhamon was chosen by the authorities of Eureka College as their lecturer on the Thomas H. Bondurant Foundation.  In this capacity he delivered the two series of lectures in Champaign, the seat of the University of Illinois.  The series on The Great Ethnic Religions was delivered upon invitation of the University management in University lecture halls.  Of the success and popularity of these lectures Rev. Stephen E. Fisher, of Champaign, Ill., says: There can be no more crucial test than to arrest and hold the attention of a body of students.


ON DRURY COLLEGE CAMPUS


Dean Lhamon combines the scientific spirit and methods of modern scholarship with the charm and grace of the highest type of popular lecturer.  The efficiency of his work was manifest in the fact that though it was an exceedingly busy season nearing the Christmas holidays and upon the eve of the Mott evangelistic campaign at the University, the attendance grew at both afternoon and evening lectures until the end.



Some of Dean Lhamon's Doings
Held pastorates in Minneapolis, Minn., Toronto, Canada, and Pittsburg, Pa.

Dean of two Missouri colleges for eighteen years.

Bondurant Lecturer, University of Illinois, 1911.

Contributor to magazines.  Author of Studies in Acts, Heroes of Modern Missions, and The Character Christ.

Fifteen years on Chautauqua platforms.



Lecture Subjects—Dean W. J. Lhamon

THE RAISING OF THE ROOF
Marble goddess and low temple roof.  Ideals of the home endangered by hasty marriage, divorce, the double standard.  The home the fountain of the future.  Love the foundation of the home.  The supreme unit of civilization.  Political ideals.  Democracy defined.  Democracy endangered.  City government and city scandal.  The cure of the curse of city government.



THE DAUGHTERS OF JOB
Fairest of the women of the east.  Equal heirs with their brethren.  Job's recognition of woman's equality with man.  An ancient insurgency.  Points of equality.  Points of superiority.  The queen in the home and the home the handmaiden of the science of preventive medicine.  Problems today of which the daughters of Job did not dream.  Woman's place in nation building.  Moral intuitions and instinct for race preservation.



MACHINE-MADE MILLENNIUMS
Misplaced hope in plans and platforms.  Various isms.  Machines grind, they do not create.  Millenniums are not made, they grow.  Society runs back to its units.  The individual functions first.  Water filters drop by drop.  Humanity gets righted one by one.  Environment is potent but not omnipotent.  Better times in store when the human breed gets better.  The millennial man brings the millennial age.



PLOWSHARES AND PRUNINGHOOKS
World peace, an age-long dream, a growing ideal.  War once the rule, peace the exception.  Peace now the rule, war the exception.  A growing world out-growing war.  The causes of war.  The spirit of peace.  The waste of war.  The husbandry of peace.  Woman's voice heralding peace.  The prophets of peace.  The Prince of peace.






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Press Notices and Private Letters
I believe the type of work that Mr. Lhamon is doing deserves more than ordinary attention.  In addition to his rich expository sermons he gave two courses of lectures, one on Comparative Religion, the other on The Character Christ.  I have never heard lectures that seemed to meet the need of the general public better.  Our people were delighted.  The afternoon classes grew to audiences.  The evening audiences taxed our seating capacity.

Rev. Joseph C. Todd, Dean School of Religion, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana.


The lectures by Dean W. J. Lhamon were splendidly delivered, full of food for thought and were listened to very attentively.  The lecture in the evening was alone worth the price of a season ticket.—
Columbus, Wisconsin, Weekly Paper.


In his lecture, The Raising of the Roof, Dean W. J. Lhamon made a plea for the following trinity, the home, the church, and the school.  To conclude his plea for better American homes, Dean Lhamon recited beautiful poem by Henry Van Dyke, Home Again.
The audience was held in spellbound attentiveness throughout the lecture, which was beyond a doubt, the best one of its kind ever delivered in this city.—

Fond Du Lac Daily Reporter.

I heard two of his lectures—the only ones I had the opportunity to hear—and I never heard two lectures that gave me more delight, more intellectual thrill, and a greater spiritual uplift.  They were forceful; they were scholarly; and they were delivered in a charming style.  I should consider it a rare privilege to hear him again.

No Chautauqua management can make a mistake in securing Dean W. J. Lhamon to conduct their Bible lectures.

Sincerely,
Hon. J. G. Camp, Eastonton, Georgia, November 5., 1906.


Dean Lhamon is a most wonderful platform talker.  He is fascinating, instructive, eloquent, strong, all embodied in simplicity of manner and language.  As the program assured us, few men come to the platform with better equipment or more engaging personality.—
Mineral Point, Wis., Tribune.

The Clarinda, Iowa, Chautauqua, is one of the oldest and best established institutions in the middle west.  Dean Lhamon has been during three seasons the Bible hour lecturer in that great assembly, and has had from the management invariably the assurance of entire satisfaction.

In this one chautauqua Mr. Lhamon delivered twenty lectures.  To other chautauquas he has had frequent recalls.

To Whom it May Concern:

I have known Dr. W. W. Lhamon for the last three years, during which time he was Dean of the School of Bible in Drury College.  Dean Lhamon is a thorough scholar with all the scholar's tastes and instincts, and wholly modern in his point of view.  He has the art of presenting the modern point of view in such a way as to win his readers and his hearers.  His love of truth is one of his most marked characteristics as a thinker and as a speaker.

In addition to Dr. Lhamon's capacity to think and his ability as a platform speaker, he is also a man of exceedingly fine and gracious personality.  In fact, the strength of his message lies very largely in the character of the man.

I warmly commend him as one who will bring a virile message and will do good wherever he goes.

Thomas W. Nodal, President of Drury College, Springfield, Mo.

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