Edwin W. Lanham, lecturer

              Edwin L. Lanham
Lecturer
EDWIN W. LANHAM                            Lecturer
INTRODUCTORY
Edwin W. Lanham needs but one introduction. After the first he is not forgotten. Combining in his personality the fire and enthusiasm, the gentle¬ness and sympathy, of Southern and Quaker ancestry, he is a favorite wherever he goes.
His voice is musical, well modulated, and of such volume that all easily hear everything he says. In his delivery he is perfectly natural, magnetic and dramatic. His appearance upon the platform is impressive. From the time he faces the audience, up to the last sentence, there is not a dull nor uninteresting moment for either speaker or audience.
His lectures are popular. With rare ethical insight, with good humor and pathos, with the skill of artist and power of logician, truth after truth is brought out in such a way that they are not forgotten. They appeal to the scholarly: they also give delight to the people who have not had the advantage of wide reading. He is a thinker possessing the faculty of portraying profound thought in such simple language that all understand and gladly follow.
He is a gifted orator, and an orator on new and original lines. He doesn't hold his hearers by the ordinary oratorical flights; it is not merely the beauty of expression, the melody of voice, nor the imagery of discourse, but because his appeal takes the shape of logical argument, that carries the hearer with him in spite of himself.
Mr. Lanham is a man among men. His heart is in his work, and a sublime purpose is back of it all, viz.: to help and elevate humanity. He is never tedious, never dry. Sometimes he is an historian, sometimes a poet, some¬times a scientist, often a humorist, but always an orator.
LECTURE SUBJECTS
The World's Battleground      The Enigma—And Its Answers The Supreme Christ               The Birthright Sold (Temperance)
God's Night-time (In Preparation)
EDWIN W. LANHAM                               Lecturer
W. A. FUNK, Attorney, Mankato, Minn.
I have long regarded Edwin W. Lanham as one of the ablest platform speakers in the state, and know that as a lecturer he can do a vast amount of good, as well as furnish first-class entertainment and instruction to his hearers. Very few men have this gift in so large measure, and I trust he will have ample opportunity to use it.
JOHN W. VANCE, Judge of Probate Court, Blue Earth, Minn.
We have sustained a lecture course in this city for many years, besides many independent lectures, and of course in all that time we have had some of the most noted platform orators that have appeared during the last thirty years. We fully believe that Dr. Edwin W. Lanham is the peer of any of them. The "Post" truly says "he has a message." We feel when this message is delivered, that we have received an inspiration. This is the second time he has been with us, so we feel that we have a claim on him, therefore we say success to him, and in the language of the Post, ' many of the topics that now agitate the public mind will be solved."
A. W. (Sunshine) HAWKS
Edwin W. Lanham is a man with a message and he knows how to deliver it. He is a great big man with a great big heart and a voice that will fill to overflowing any auditorium. I heard him in an inspiring address at the Iowa City Chautauqua. Have him on your chautauqua program and your lecture course.    He will make good.
AUGUSTUS H. CARVER, Secretary Luvern Lyceum
The roster of lyceum attractions was increased in several directions when Edwin W. Lanham yielded to solicitations to enter the lecture field. A splendid physique, a pleasing personality, and beyond all, a trained and mature mind, impress the hearer of elements of power, and he everywhere makes good. His success in his chosen field has passed the point of prediction—he has already achieved it. His great lecture, "The World's Battleground," is not only inter¬esting and instructive, it is thrilling.
D. A. RICHARDSON, Secretary, Minneapolis, Minn.
Dr. Edwin W. Lanham opened our lecture course with his stirring address on "The World's Battleground." Dr. Lanham is a man of commanding and delightful personality, treating a subject of great interest in an original way. The shadowy "soaring human boy" of Mr. Chadband in Dickens' novel, who appears too often in stories and sermons, and nowhere else, becomes a flesh and blood boy, real but not commonplace, aspiring without cant, in Dr. Lanham's description, whose humor and pathos are ever homely and familiar. The large audience who braved the bitter cold night, sat in deep interest over an hour and a half, and all felt well repaid.
J.W. JARNAGAN, Editor Daily Record, Cedar Falls, Iowa
I heard Dr. Edwin W. Lanham on two different occasions, and I was delighted with the manner in which he presented his subjects. His reasoning is clear and strong and his appeals warm and earnest, while his delivery is eloquent and forceful. He is neither dull nor prosy, and he not only instructs his audiences, but thoroughly interests them as well.
CLINTON L. MANN
Secretary Worthington Lyceum Association, Worthington. Minn.
Dr. Edwin W. Lanham's strength lies in his familiarity with his subject matter, and his force¬ful manner of delivery. His strong personal appearance combined with his excellent way of addressing an audience compels the most thoughtful and careful attention from the first sen¬tence. He is a lecturer of more than ordinary ability. He has the power of pleasing for the moment, and also leaving you with truths, that if followed and studied will uplift both spirit¬ually and mentally. To all committees who are looking for an exceptionally strong lecture number on their course, I can most heartily recommend Dr. Lanham.
EDWIN W. LANHAM                                Lecturer
C. M. CRANDALL, Attorney, Worthington, Minn.
It has been my rare privilege to hear Edwin W. Lanham from the platform on several occa¬sions, and on each succeeding time he re-demonstrated that the rostrum was his true forte. He is not only a polished gentleman and scholarly speaker of commanding presence and appearance, but combined properly with his eloquence and erudition is his gifted power of logical analysis,so that emphatic practicability in lasting quality results from his exploitation of any subject that he presents.
J. L. BERKHIMER. Editor Worthington Globe
Dr. Edwin W. Lanham is one of the ablest speakers on the lyceum list. His personal appearance upon the platform at once assures his audience that they will receive full value for their investment. His ability as a public speaker attracts particular attention both for literary character and impressive delivery, and appeals with special power to thoughtful men and women.
GEORGE HUGH BIRNEY
Pastor First M. E. Church. Cedar Falls. Iowa Dr. Edwin W. Lanham is a perfect master of himself and his subject.    He wins and holds his audience frcm the first.     Of prepossessing appearance, clear, resonant voice, forceful and elegant in expression, sincere earnestness, large vision, he is worthy of a large hearing upon the vital subjects which he presents to the public.
A. T. LATTA, President Worthington Chautauqua Association
Having listened to Edwin W. Lanham's addresses on a number of occasions, it gives me great pleasure to state that the same have been the highest order of merit in style, thought and delivery, and that any subject he may take up is always discussed in a most thorough and convincing manner.     I consider him a platform speaker of marked ability.
H. A. NOYES, Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Dows, Iowa
Edwin W. Lanham is a man of strong personality, as well as unusual ability, on the platform. He quickly comes into touch with his audience and holds them to the end. He is master of the situation from first to last, uniformly pleases his auditors, and is destined to take high rank among those whom the American public delights to greet upon the lecture platform.
PROF. C. K. WARNE
Platform Manager Johnson Co. Chautauqua, Iowa City, Iowa I have heard many words of praise, but not one word of criticism for the splendid address which Dr. Edwin W. Lanham gave us Sunday afternoon. As one man said, he has stirred me up and I am going to get acquainted with my boy." He is in a class by himself, and his lecture The World's Battleground" is bound to become immensely popular. I shall be glad to use him upon any program I may have charge of in the future.
Windom (Minn.) Reporter
The opera house was filled to hear Dr. Edwin W. Lanham's lecture on "The Birthright Sold." There was never a better nor stronger talk given in Windom on that subject—it was meat from beginning to end. He commenced by saying that all license men agreed that there was no moral question about it—that question had been settled long ago; the saloon has no moral right whatever, and with that, he dropped that phase of the subject and took up the economic and ethical side of the question. He pointed to the fact that no town in advertising its attractions and advantages ever advertised its saloons, and he gave a few statistics that were based on facts, scientific facts that could not be denied nor disputed. His appeal to American patriotism was insurmountable. Certainly no true American wants to see "Old Glory' desecrated and disgraced by being used to decorate saloons. His prophecy that unless the liquor traffic was curtailed this nation would fall as did Egypt, was appalling. "No nation," he said, "could exist half drunk and half sober." A few lectures like it scattered through the year would be of great assistance in taking care of the blind pigs.