Henry Clay Risner

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THE NATIONAL CHAUTAUQUA BUREAU
DR. W. L. DAVIDSON. Manager
1520 East 1 15th Street, Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Henry Clay Risner IT is related of the late Mark Twain that when he first beheld Niagara Falls, he said, " Gentlemen, it is a success." This will be your verdict if you ever have the good fortune to hear Dr. Henry C. Risner in one of his soul stirring messages. Dr. Risner is presented to you as the unique thinker, enter¬tainer and orator. He is so versatilely powerful and profoundly attractive, that his magnetic personality defies description.
The Journal and Tribune of Knoxville, Tennessee, says: 4'Dr. Henry C. Risner is one of the most attractive personalities that Knoxville has ever had the pleasure of entertaining. From Boston to Texas, from Chicago to Florida, Dr. Risner's ability has been attested in the best pulpits and upon the most critical Chautauqua platforms."
He enjoys the universal verdict, "there is none like him." He always surpasses expectation. His experience in matters of education, his extensive travels, his poetic nature, so magnetic with the exuberance of life enable him to adorn every subject he touches. You laugh at his sparkling wit, smile at his rich humor and rejoice under the spell of his charming personality. After hearing him you are always impressed with the fact of the discovered wealth within yourself; the world of beauty without you and an abiding joy of the sense of Him "whose dwelling is the light of setting suns."
When Dr. Risner speaks you worship at the shrine of beauty, you are inspired by the visions of prophets, you feast upon the luxuries of poets, you sit by streams of laughter, you visit rivers of delight and quaff from fountains of pathos and vintages of inspiration; you go away with a message as abiding as hope, as strengthening as faith, as affectionate as love and as sweet as the melody as psalm. His nobleness of purpose, his manly bearing, his musical voice, grapple his audi¬ences with hooks of steel, while his great heart overpowers them like a shower of poetic sunbeam.
Subject:
"Shooting an Owl, or the Coming Man." "An Eagle Feather." "A Trinity of Beauty." "A Trinity of Manhood."
iSeto Hecture*:
"The Encore of Supremacy." 44 From a Fish to Flowers, or the Paradise a Man Can Never Lose."
Testimonials and Appreciations
Says President E. E. Wood of Williamsburg Insti¬tute, Kentucky: "Dr. Risner's message is one of a hun¬dred. It is charged with a power that stings men to action. It is vibrant with the melody of beauty and poetry.
Dr. Risner lives so constantly in the realm of the highest that his speech is the medium by which the news from the sky is flashed to the earth. When he speaks, his mind is a window of heaven through which celestial radiance and music stream upon the souls of men."
Says the Journal and Tribune of Knoxville: "Large audience heard Dr. Ris¬ner on 'Trinity of Beauty.' The audience was composed of promi¬nent educators, social leaders and business men and women of the city, who came to hear a finished orator and were not  disappointed."
resentative culture of Knoxville that he is one of the most earnest, magnetic, brilliant and finished orators that has ever appeared before a Knoxville audience. His word painting and descriptions  are indescribable."
DR. RISXER IX BOSTON.
Says the Boston Post: tors of the age."
"He is one of the great ora-
Says the Woman's Home Companion, speaking of the
distinguished  people  visiting
Says Prof. P. P. Clax-ton, United States Com¬missioner of Education: "Dr. Risner's descrip¬tions in ' Trinity of Beauty' were as fine as I ever heard."
Dr. W. A. Atchloy, First Church of Butte. Montana: "'The Eagle Feather' is the finest lec¬ture I ever heard, and Dr. Risner has made the profoundest impression upon my life of any man since the days of Phil¬lips Brooks."
Dr. B. L. Whitman, First Church, Seattle, Washington: "Knoxville is to be congratulated." "Dr. Henry C. Risner has in him what never gets into book and sel¬dom gets into men."
Prof. Seymour A. Myn-ders, Superintendent of the City Schools of Knoxville: "It has been my pleasure to hear Dr. Henry C. Risner lecture. His beauty of rhetoric, eloquence and instruc¬tive   thought   is   not   ex-     '
celled by any public lecturer I have ever heard.    His manner is exceedingly attractive and entertaining."
Mrs. Alma Inman Parker, Founder of the City B^u-tiful League of Knoxville, President of the Woman's Board of the Appalachian Exposition: "Notwithstand¬ing the fact that Knoxville enjoys every summer, at the great Summer School, the most choice talent of America, the series of lecfures given in interest of the City Beau¬tiful League by Dr. Henry C. Risner won the unanimous verdict of educators, artists, social leaders and the rep-
The City Beautiful Lectures of Knoxville, Tenn
Dr. Risner Captures Not Only Audiences but Cities
In February of 1911, Dr. Risner was secured by the City Beautiful League of Knoxville, to deliver three lectures in the interest of city improvements. These lectures were not only surpassingly profound, beautiful and stimulating, in the realms of the fine arts as experienced from study and extensive travel, but they were attended by high social functions. "The Eagle Feather" was given as a drawing-room lecture in the millionaire home of Col. L. D. Tyson. The Knoxville Sentinel says: "One of the most de¬lightful literary and social advantages of the present winter season was the drawing-room lecture at the home of Col. L. D. Tyson, given by Dr. Henry C. Risner, of Kentucky. It was a brilliant success from every standpoint. The elegant home in every de¬partment was crowded with prominent club women, social leaders of the city, a true and enthusiastic rep¬resentation of the culture and city's literati."
Says Mrs. Tyson, President of the City Beautiful League of Knoxville: "Dr. Risner's lectures were so brilliant and his word painting so wonderful, his poetic nature so rich, that he leads his audiences into realms of the supernal."
Says The Lookout of Chattanooga: "The recent lectures given by the Dr. Henry C. Risner, of Ken¬tucky, in the interest of the City Beautiful League of Knoxville, have not only been events of great intel¬lectual moment, but of high social and municipal im¬provement as well. Dr. Risner is a man of rare powers, intellectual and oratorical, characterized by his wonderfully intense personality. He is not a man of inflated ideals, but he is the teacher of a cult which believes intensely in ideals made practical, without which application no ideal is of any use whatever. These lectures were given in the atmos¬phere which characterizes the efforts of the League: that of elegance, refinement, architectural beauty and interior decoration, fitting so well the occasion of the aesthetic study such as presented by Dr. Risner's lec¬tures."
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's drawing room: "Dr. Henry C. Risner, of Texas, was the star one day."
Says the Haywood -News Service: "Off a deatli bed, Dr. Risner amazes the people of Bos¬ton."
Houston Chronicle of Texas: "Many of Dr. Risner's admirers in Bos¬ton are seeking to win him for the Hub city. Tall of statue, handsome, with curly black hair, poetic temperament, a hunger for study and love for humanity, his life sweetened and strengthened, he is a man certain to attract attention anywhere. Bos¬ton has been surprised to find so much culture, coupled with native tal ent and fiery enthusiasm.
Says Dr. Charles L. Page, of Dudley Street Baptist Church, Boston: "Dr. Risner can gain the attention of an audience quicker and leave it in better condition than anv  man  I  ever heard."
The Democrat Re¬porter, Tyler Texas: " 'Shooting an Owl' is a masterpiece, and like all great literary produc¬tions can not be ade¬quately portrayed in a short review. An at¬tempt to describe it would be like attempting to 'guild refined gold.' It marked an epoch in the history and culture of Tyler."
SEVEN" TIMES HE CROWDED THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE AT TYLER, TEXAS. Says the Evening Times at Tyler, Texas: "There were often panics for seats and always packed audiences to overflowing for seven successive lectures. It is a marvel to the people of Tyler. We put it mildly and believe we express the mind of the people when we say that we be lieve there is no other man in America who could call out on seven successive occasions and hold such intel¬ligent and enthusiastic audiences, but knowing the man with his great heart, towering intellect, combined with a charming personality, they expected something not only entertaining but sublime each time. Let no city, audience or individual ever miss an opportunity to hear Dr. Risner.
"He can paint Italian sunsets and Alpine cascades with a glory that lingers forever in the soul. Truly do the people say, you can never be the same after hearing him.
"When it was announced that 'Shooting an Owl; or, The Coming Man' was to be delivered, within two hours after the box was open all seats in the Grand Opera House were taken, and Baptist people had to give up their seats to the public. In this lecture we find the grandest lessons that were ever brought to man, and the influence and  principles  will  last  forever."
HIS CHAUTAUQUA RECORD.
Says the Barnesville Republican, Bethesda, Ohio: "Saturday night Dr. Risner gave a thrilling lecture, 'An Eagle Feather.' One of the most cultured audi¬ences of the season greeted him. An almost breathless silence filled the vast auditorium. 1X0 one wished to miss one of the burning words of the speaker. The very air was charged with the wonderful electricity that con¬nects audiences with the heart of the speaker. It was a great occasion and truly no one could go from that gathering without being a nobler person and not have a divine hunger for the noblest things. No man that has ever trod on that platform made a deeper impres¬sion on the people. Dozens declared it to be the best ever given on this platform. It was simply marvelous. His first lecture, 'Shooting the Owl,' was also great and delivered in a masterful way. Dr. Risner won his place in the class of great lecturers, that so nobly adorn the American platform.    We hope for his return next year."
Says the Weber Quartette of Boston: "We heard Dr. Henry C. Risner lecture and preach at the close of the Chautauqua at Humboldt, Iowa, and he was unani¬mously considered by far the best on the program. We saw him receive similar reception at Delavan, Wiscon-sin. Old patrons said he was the finest they had ever heard."
Ottawa, Kansas, B. C. McQuestin, Manager: "I went home ana told my wife that 'Shooting the Owl; or, The Coming Man' was the finesc lecture since Palmer gave us 'Company D.' twenty years ago."
Dr. W. L. Davidson, President of the National Chautauqua Bureau: "Dr. Henry C. Risner has been at two of my Chautauquas and will be at all of them. He is a man with a message. His commanding personality gives a ton weight to every word. His great voice reaches the last auditor. His enthusiasm is unbounded. He carries conviction and wins every audience be faces. It is doubtful if the platform has a greater orator.
The Democrat of Somerset, Pa.. 1010: "Dr. Henry C. Risner's 'Shooting the Owl' was the most satisfactory lecture of the season."
J. Lee McCormick, Indian Lake, Ohio: "Dr. Risner is at the top of the ladder on the lecture platform. A man with a magnetic personality, he lives in his lec¬tures, his audiences sway with him like magic. Don't fail to hear him. You can afford to drive miles. He is wonderful."
John Lichty, Manager, Falls City, Neb.: "Dr. Henry C. Risner drew the largest audience of the season. He deserved twice his contract."
Prof. L. C. Brown, Manager, Johnstown, Ohio, 1911: Dr. Henry C. Risner: Dear ftir,—The exact facts con¬cerning your lecture, 'Shooting an Owl,' is that all con¬sider it the peer of anything they have ever heard, and many say it surpasses by far the best we have ever had. IOU would be heard here again by a large audience."
Lake View (Ohio) Reporter: "The cowboy band was like a cyclone of enthusiasm. It was followed by the masterful lecture, 'Shooting an Owl; or, The Coming Man," by Dr. Henry C. Risner. He can follow anything or anybody."
W. R. Richerson, Manager, Covington, Ohio: "Our people were captured.    We want you again."
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E. E. Hoskins, Secretary and Manager of Buckeye Lake Chautauqua, Millersport, Ohio: "Dr. Risner's lec¬tures surpassed all."
Dr. John Boyet, Baptist Standard of Texas, says: "Dr. Risner is one of the few really great men whom I have met in life. He is masterful at anything he under¬takes."
The Lebanon Democrat, Lebanon, Tenn.: "Like all his productions, his lecture on 'Shooting an Owl' is a masterpiece. His diction is pure; his rhetoric is per¬fect; his ability is unsurpassed. One could sit for hours and listen to his beautiful flow of language and word paintings without tiring."
Winchester Xcics, Winchester, Kentucky: "Dr. Ris¬ner won the hearts of his hearers in his first utterance, beginning in a fine strain of humor his lecture was a masterpiece delivered in a powerful manner. The great audience manifested their interest by rounds after rounds of laughter.
Hetty Green's lawyer, Hon. Chas. W. Ogden, San Antonio, Texas: "I listened two hours to Dr. Risner and could have listened two more without tiring."
Dr. Chas. H. Thomas, of Philadelphia: "As tall and as graceful as an oak, with language as chaste as that of DeQuincy's, Dr. Henry C. Risner carried the minds and hearts of that vast and critical audience heavenward for fifty minutes. It was one of the finest addresses ever delivered in Philadelphia."
Dr. T. T. Eaton, editor of the Western Recorder, Louisville, Ky.: "Dr. H. C. Risner is lecturing in Bal¬timore with great eclat. There are two special char¬acteristics of him on the platform, viz.: point and mas¬terful  force."
The Durant Daily Democrat, Durant, Okla., says: "Dr. Risner on 'Shooting an Owl,' most far reaching production Durant has ever heard. With full assur¬ance that sweets were coming from the brain repository of Dr. Henry Clay Risner, a multitude stormed the edi-fice last evening to hear this finished orator on 'Shoot¬ing an Owl; or, The Coming Man.' Not since great men have been speaking in our city has there been such a comprehensive and far reaching production to greet and gratify the minds and hearts of men. He began with a humor that was rich and ended with his audience spell¬bound with excessive charm and delight."
Testimonials and Appreciations— Continued