Dr. L. G. Herbert

              DR. L. G. HERBERT


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DR. L. G. HERBERT


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The Man



Physically?



A strong, vigorous, rugged man, weighing over two hundred pounds.  He never has dyspepsia, and never knocks on a meal,—audibly.  Never had a cold, never has been sick in his life.  Is found of athletics, and can yell with the loudest and root with the wildest at football or baseball games.





Intellectually?



Towering.  His mind is a marvel of mental machinery.  He made his own way thru college, and has been a voracious reader and thinker all these years.  He inspires the young people, for whom he has a holy passion, with highest ideals.  Under his ministry 136 young people were inspired to higher education.  He still inspires.  Ask the young people of such places as Tell City, Ind., Wabash, Ind., Pennville, Ind., Lodi, Ohio, McComb, Ohio, and many other places where Herbert has appeared from three to five times, if he is not unequaled on the platform in this inspiration.





Religiously?



A devout, earnest, Christian gentleman, a church member and one who believes thoroly in the church and her mission.  He believes the church is at the line of the mightiest vision the world has ever seen.  He does not even 
cuss the hypocrite.
  He thinks such things are beneath the true platformist.






His Message



A Man Among Men
 is an inspiring, fervent appeal to the young fellow.  No 
Golden Gems of Life
 stuff in it, nor in any of Herbert's lectures.  No 
Courtship and Marriage
 rot, no maudlin sentimentalism.  The young man of to-day is the best ever.  He has the biggest brain, the strongest body, and the best vision of service.  The young man has always been the best yet.  We are training the young fellow physically, he is growing taller, bigger-out.  The mightiest soldiers of Troy were pygmies in comparison.  The twentieth century brain is a marvel in grasp.  The intellectual vision of this generation is the prophecy of the glad day coming when the people again shall rule and the boss shall be out of a job.  A girl or a boy who completes a full, twelve-grade course in a commissioned high school to-day has as much education as the college graduate of half a century ago.  You should hear Herbert swing out when he approaches the Ethical Man of this generation.  The consciousness of the other fellow is the basis.  Wherever we go we find him, and we are manly enough to recognize his claims.  The clergyman, the physician, the lawyer, the business man, the journalist, the laboring man and the public school teacher, all are magnified in a burst of such fervor and eloquence as only Herbert can do.  Humorous touches—and dramatic—the football game; the two, dear, delightful, picturesque, fossilized old liars back home; the dear sister who thinks that the church is in a bad way; the old-fashioned Ager and the gourf.




A Trinity 
of
 Power
 is the broadest and most scholarly of Herbert's lectures.  The 
trinity
 consists of Education, Patriotism and Religion.  The average man would be surprised to hear Herbert's four-minute summary of world movements within the past two years.  The People are coming to the front, and will rule or ruin.  Whether it be constructive or destructive will depend upon the care of the three things in this trinity.  The public schools, the colleges and universities, the technological schools, and the correspondence and evening schools number more than one-fourth of our population.  By all means, hear Herbert tell of 
Willard, Poor Joe and Gentle Mattie
—three young people who, in great straits, made their way through the university and to success.  The new patriotism is best expressed in the term, 
The Square Deal.
  The boss has bequeathed to us a muddled patriotic conception, and it is for us to evolve a better definition.  This government is not run for money, and the money kings will discover that in due time.  It is 
God's country,
 and the spoiler must reform or get out.  The Sugar Trust, the Arbuckles, the Standard Oil and the other mighty aggregations must square themselves with the rising tide of patriotism that needs no war to prove its claims to single-minded service.  The present national administration is on trial, and 
the man higher up
 must not escape, or there will be a political revolution that will clean the slate and pave the way for the most glorious destiny for the republic.  When Herbert states the vision of the new religion, it is time for a ringing Methodist 
Amen!
  The religion of to-day is, essentially, a noble interpretation of the vision of the Galilean.  It is a religion that does things.  The mightiest sweep of the centuries is that of the religious outlook of to-day.  There are too many churches, and they have been evolved by warring theologians.  The vision of service that is so marked to-day will give the world a unified Christianity before the end of this century.  The church is mighty—ask the saloonist, or Tammany, or the white slave traffickers.  The church is coming into her own, and the Doxology is in order.  The sermon of the old negro preacher, in this connection, is a fine piece of work.  The lamented Father Vaughn pronounced it one of the most artistic touches of the platform.





The Hare 
and the
 Tortoise



This is a message to the plodder, based on the old fable.  It is full of meat, with side dishes of vegetables, and a dessert of rich stuff that gives no dyspepsia.  It is full of movement, full of humor and philosophy.  Every sentence strikes home.  Wabash and Tell City, Indiana, pronounced it best of Herbert's work, and he has been in these two places repeatedly.






Cash, Conscience 
and
 Country

Herbert's latest and greatest message is ready for 1910-11.  The name of the lecture suggests the treatment.  A scholar's vision, full of dramatic power and entertainment.




CURRENT COIN


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Altoona, Penn.:


More than made good.




Canton, Mo.:


The college fellows are in love with this man, who will always be a fellow with the fellows.  He left a mighty uplift.




Starkville, Miss.,
 A. and M. College:

The one thousand boys were swayed by the eloquence, stirred by the enthusiasm, and cheered by the optimism of this noble Buckeye.




Fayetteville, Ark.,
 State University:

Herbert has been with us twice and must come back next year.  The plodders, particularly, love him for his genialty and his rare faculty of turning work into poetry.




St. Paul, Minn.:


A strong, virile man, with a great soul and a great message.  The students of the university were thrilled to better impulses.




Fort Wayne, Ind.:


A great occasion, a great man, and a great message.




Wimbledon, N. Dak.:


Our patrons never had a more splendid treat, and we want Herbert again and again.




Enderlin, N. Dak.:


Herbert, as an entertainer, is a whole quartette, and as a lecturer has never been excelled in our city.




Chicago, Lake View:


His message is new, constructive, heartening, and our people will never be as discouraged again.




Pine Island, Minn.:


This is Herbert's second visit, and the people will not be content unless he comes again.




Danville, Ind.:


Both students and citizens were thrilled, and old and young inspired to struggle on.




Atlanta, Ga.:


Dr. Herbert is a strong, virile man, with a charm that comes from manly strength and mighty soul.




Conway, Ark.,
 Hendrix College:

Twice with us, and demanded again.  We took him this year rather than a man who commands $150 per night.  We received a million in good.  God bless Herbert.




Baton Rouge, La.,
 State University:

Herbert is a Northerner who loves the South, and the South loves him.  He was a blessing to us.




St. Augustine, Fla.:


As eloquent as the seas and as musical as the winds, as noble as the gods and as human as humanity.




Byron, N. Y.:


Herbert has been here three times and we want him thirty times more.




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