H. V. Adams

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ARTHUR C. COIT, President.

LOUIS J. ALBER, General Marager.

THE COIT LYCEUM BUREAU

CLEVELAND O.


H. V. Adams Lecturer


H. V. Adams Lecturer
A MAN WITH A MESSAGE
THE LECTURER is the soul of the Lyceum.  Music, art, literature, magic, humor, and all that educates or wholesomely entertains, has its legitimate place in this great institution of progress and pleasure, but the Lyceum lives by virtue of the lecture.  It is a pleasure to present again a successful man, one inspired by the real spirit of this great institution, one who has been more than simply successful for five years.  Mr. H. V. Adams belongs to that class of men who are doing the work which endures; men of spotless character and unsullied name.  He is, above all, a genuine man, of royal good nature, sincere, and of positive convictions; a scholar whose great natural powers have been matured and polished by collegiate training, a course in law, and several years' study in his own library and in travel.  Five years as an editor, two years as a successful attorney, several years of miscellaneous lecturing on religious and ethical topics and as an instructor in law, and ten years
in the pulpit, five of them in a western capital city where his sermons were more often quoted in the press than those of any other preacher in the city, and five years of successful lecturing on Lyceum courses and at the Chautauquas, filling an average of over two hundred engagements each year, have given him ready command of all his resources and made him familiar with the practical life of men.  His lectures are individualized, each presenting a logically wrought out theme, and are spiced with enough of that kind of humor which arises naturally out of the subject to make them interesting and entertaining, thus making popular lectures of a high order.



LECTURE SUBJECTS
Adams' Lectures are always of a Popular Style


GRAPES OF GOLD
A very popular lecture on the power of suggestion.  Made simple and clear and well seasoned with humor and wit.  A twentieth century lecture.

A HOUSE OF CHANGING DIMENSIONS
A lecture on the power of the Personal Will to overcome any and all handicaps of Heredity and Environment.

THE WELL DIGGERS
The art of finding living waters in the sandy wastes of life.

INFALLIBLE FOOLS
A plea for broader thinking and greater charity.

THE CHAMPION WRESTLER
(A Sunday Lecture).

THE CREED OF TOMORROW
(A Sunday Lecture).

OF ALL THE DEVILS
(In preparation).





Some Kindly Disposed Newspapers
There are others.  We wish we had room for all the blessed fellows


ILLINOIS.

Mr. Adams is a witty man and at the same time is a deep thinker.  His points are made in a clear and forceful manner, and the jokes which he intersperses come in just at the right time and are an exact fit.  He won for himself a warm place in the hearts of our Chautauque goers.—
Galesburg Republican-Register.



INDIANA.

Those who had heard Dr. Adams expected a good lecture, but were unprepared for the great treat given.  His Grapes of Gold abounded with gems of thought and was interspersed with enough stories to vividly bring out the points which the speaker desired to express.  The lecture was a message of cheer and goodwill to mankind, and a plea for the cultivation of those faculties that make for the best that is within us.—
Valparaiso Vidette.



IOWA.

The oration has never been excelled in Central Iowa.  Mr. Adams held the vast audience spellbound.—
Des Moines Register.


To say Mr. Adams' lecture was good is putting it mildly—it was more than good—and held the audience an hour and three-quarters in perfect amazement.  He seemed to be tuned to the concert pitch.—
Manning Monitor.



KANSAS.

He is an able speaker, and his Grapes of Gold is a mixture of laughter-provoking anecdotes and helpful suggestions to better living.  Mr. Adams possesses the happy faculty of telling a good story and making a helpful suggestion at the same time.  An evening spent with him is sure to be an evening of both pleasure and profit.—
Jetmore Western Herald.


The lecture by H. V. Adams was a rare treat.—
Elk City Sun.



MINNESOTA.

His thoughts are those of a strong and vigorous mind.  He is among the very few who can tell a story and make it count.  His stories counted.  They entertained the audience and illustrated the central thought of the lecture in a most happy manner.  The lecture was enlivened with a fine vein of fresh wit and humor.—
Owatonna People's Press.


His wide range of knowledge, his great command of language and his pleasing personality make him a favorite on the lecture platform.—
Hallock Enterprise.



MISSOURI.

His lecture was a glitter of wit and humor, a bombardment of argument, and a whirlwind of beautiful sentiment, eloquently expressed.—
Ozark Democrat.


It is one of the best all-round lectures which we have had an opportunity to hear for years.  His flashes of wit, and frequent bursts of eloquence kept his large audience intensely interested every minute.—
Seymour Citizen.



MICHIGAN.

His lecture was one of those rare treats which come unexpectedly and leave behind a fullness of appreciation which cannot be described.  Grapes of Gold is a cheerful lecture, full of thoughts designed to make one happy.  There are serious moments in it, also, but words there are of a sombre nature employed to bring home the chief idea.  Delving down into the heart of the lecture, built admirably into a superstructure of cleverness and pleasant, perfect English, the hearers found a gentle, persuasive sermon, which strikes home to the great truth of right living, right thinking and right doing.  The subject was old, but its exploitation was new and fresh.  Those who listened to Grapes of Gold, went away with that feeling of one who has been fed with the good things of life.  There was that satisfaction of having tasted something long desired, and found it fully up to those desires.  Seeds of the golden grapes were sown in fertile ground Monday night, and they will blossom and bear golden fruit in the days to come.—
Grand Haven Tribune.



NEBRASKA.

His original puns and laughable incidents and descriptions sparkle with wit and bind together gems of thought that not only entertain but make the lives of his hearers better and purer.—
Louisville Courier.


For more than an hour Mr. Adams poured forth with humor, good cheer, sound advice, pointed stories, and splendid counsel, in a most captivating and entertaining way.  No one who heard the lecture can help but be a better man or woman.  We need more of that kind of lectures.—
Pender Republic.



OHIO.

Mr. Adams is himself a heart-happy, cheery man, just the man to deliver such a lecture as Grapes of Gold, and deliver it with its full force and significance.  His Champion Wrestler is a splendid sermon lecture, especially suited for a Sunday afternoon program.—
Crescent News, Defiance.



PENNSYLVANIA.

Mr. Adams' lecture was one of the best ever heard in Mercer, and was fully appreciated by his audience.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.



WISCONSIN.

One of the best lectures ever heard in Linden.  Grapes of Gold is a masterpiece, and Mr. Adams pleased his audience beyond measure.—
Linden Southwest Wisconsin.


Mr. Adams is a pleasant appearing gentleman, a delightfully plain, easy and eloquent speaker, a rapid thinker.  His lecture was brimming over with good common sense, intermingled with enough wit and humor to make it exceedingly interesting—
Union Grove Enterprise.

He will have them from other states and towns as he lectures in them




Some Friends of Adams
HOW GOOD IT IS TO HAVE FRIENDS
AMES, IOWA.—I have favorably known H. V. Adams for a number of years.  He is regarded as one of the brightest men in Iowa.  His sermons and lectures in Des Moines attracted unusual attention.  He will be much sought after in the lecture field.—Dr. W. T. Smith, Presiding Elder.

CHARLOTTE, MICH.—By striking illustrations, amusing and pathetic, Mr. Adams sought to enforce the great truth that a sound mind and a pure heart are the basis of all true manhood and womanhood, and of all real success in life.  That the secret of happiness and health are with those who cultivate these and give the moral and intellectual dominion over the physical and sensual.  Many of the ills that plague men have their source in the diseased imagination.  No man needs despair, who loves truth and exalts righteousness.  While the lecture was full of the mirth of a genuine humor, there was not a sentence that could disturb the most fastidious taste.  With words of utmost tenderness for human frailty and folly, and strong words of inspiration and hope for every legitimate ambition, the lecturer held the unwearied attention of young and old for a full hour and a half.  The committee is to be congratulated upon securing such talent for the course, and our citizens upon having placed before them such delightful and healthful entertainment for themselves and their children.—Rev. M. D. Carrell, D. D.

DES MOINES, IOWA.—He is a man of strong and vigorous mind, optimistic in his views, forceful in his arguments and thoroughly alive to the issues of the day.  His lectures appeal to intellectual and student bodies, and his work among young people makes them his fast friends.  He is among the few who can tell a story and make it count.  Perhaps no Des Moines preacher was more often reported in the papers.  His great interest in practical, every-day affairs of the city and community made him a prominent figure in municipal life.—M. H. Page, Highland Park College.

MANSFIELD, O.—I want you to know that a day's reflection after your lecture only deepens my sense of gratitude to you and of appreciation of your lecture on Grapes of Gold.  As I met people yesterday I found only expressions of delight.  Everyone had some fact of their own observation or experience that was corroborative of the truth of your lecture.  All feel that you could not have made your point so streng with an hour's argument as you did with your unique experiment.  The more I think about it the more I feel like preaching a set of sermons along the line of receiving proper suggestions.  The cheap picture shows are flooding our town and are suggesting that which is not pure and noble and of good report.  You had a great theme, finely handled, splendidly illustrated.  One of our neighbors said it did his wife two dollars' worth of good by lifting her out of her troubles, which only proved your point of the value of a laugh.  If you have something else as good I hope we may hear you again.—S. L. Stewart, Pastor First M. E. Church.

DES MOINES, IOWA.—If a committeeman should ask me to name a man who would please all, entertain all and edify all and one who would leave the whole community admiring a manly man and saying nothing but good words for the Lyceum movement, I would say, Get H. V. Adams. I will class him as the all-round man.  I am fully conscious that the above are strong words, but ten years of acquaintance explain why I use them and go thus on record.—L. B. Wickersham.

DECORAH, IOWA.—He abounds in apt illustrations of his theme, and draws his conclusions so clearly and rapidly there is no losing track of his thought by lapse of attention.  Mr. Adams is a clear thinker, an eloquent speaker and a genial, optimistic man.  I cheerfuly commend the man and the lecture to those having in charge the preparation of programs for public assemblies.—E. J. Hook, County Superintendent of Schools.

LOUISVILLE, NEB.—Mr. H. V. Adams gave Louisville the greatest treat she ever had.  He's not on orator—he's more.  He's an entertainer, a lecturer, a musician, who does not sing or play and yet who causes the harmony in the souls of his auditors to furnish them the music.  The name Adams will always call up sweet remembrances in the minds of Louisvillians.  You have a man in Adams who would suit any audience on earth.—Prof. N. W. Gaines.

OMAHA, NEB.—Mr. H. V. Adams gave an inspiring address at our men's meeting on Sunday afternoon—one of the very best of the whole year—and that is saying a great deal.  His clear, vigorous thought, animated delivery, and strong personality held the rapt attention of all.  His subject was Faith, and he was so filled with that divine quality that he transmitted it to his hearers, enabling them to carry it away with them as an abiding possession.—L. M. Oberkotter, Religious Work Director, Y. M. C. A.

OSAKIS, MINN.—The title Grapes of Gold, is taking.  The temper and spirit of the man is admirably adapted to the theme.  The thought is strong; the illustrations are well chosen and forcibly presented.  Mr. Adams is so frank and fair and hearty that he disarms the most hostile critic.  His wit and humor are irresistible; and there is a simplicity and earnest-nest about Mr. Adams that binds all hearts to him.  The lecturer's happy manner, his forceful way of putting truth, his breadth of view and mental penetration, are sure to win large success on the lecture platform.—Rev. Carl A. Anderson, Ph. D.

SAUK CENTER, MINN.—Despite the pouring rain the Methodist Church was well filled on Friday night to hear Rev. H. V. Adams' lecture, Grapes of Gold.  It is needless to say that they were well entertained.  The editor has heard the most noted lecturers in the United States, and Mr. Adams ranks well up with the best.—Hon. Frank M. Eddy, Congressman from Minnesota.

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