Cyrus Townsend Brady of Kansas City

              CYRUS TOWNS END BRADY
OF KANSAS CITY
WHEN CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY was ten years old his parents moved to Leavenworth. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in September, 1879; was graduated therefrom in June 1883; resigned from the navy in October of the same year; entered upon the railroad business immediately thereafter; was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church Feb. 24, 1889; priest, November 25, 1890; missionary in the West and archdeacon of Kansas until 1895; archdeacon of Pennsylvania until 1899; rector of Overbrook, Philadelphia, for several years and later went to Toledo. In 1899 he was appointed Captain and Chaplain in the First regiment Pennsylvania United States Volunteers, Spanish-American war, and served till the regiment was mustered out of the United States service.
Dr. Brady is built on big lines physi¬cally and intellectually. He probably is as busy as any minister of the Gospel cares to be. For years he has held the championship in fast literary production. Forty books bear his name, but they represent only a small part of the loads upon loads of writings he has turned out since he began to print things. No one knows how much work he can stand, but the only part of hirn that shows any wear is his head and it is bald above his ears. Dr. Brady is forty-eight years old, but his face and his smile and his eyes are twenty years younger.—Kansas City Star, Friday, Jan. 15, '09.
LECTURE SUBJECTS
"Law, Written and Unwritten."
"A Story Teller's Night, or the Adven¬ture Grave and Gay of a Soldier, Sailor, Author and Clergyman/'
"Success and  Its Achievements."
SOME BOOKS OF THE VERSATILE AUTHOR
The Ring and the Man.   The Southerners.
The Ameilcan Fights and Fighter Series.
The Character and Characteristics of Gen'l Robert E. Lee from a Northern Stand¬point.
For the Freedom of the Sea—and two doz¬en others.
LECTURE LAST EVENING. Cyrus Townsend Brady delivered a most pleasing and entertaining lecture in St. Mark's church Thursday evening. The lecturer related happenings from his own interesting and varied career. Particularly pleasing was his account of the beginnings, discouragements and final success of a story writer. Dr. Brady has a most fascinating manner in speaking and held the closest attention of his audience throughout  the  lecture.—Sidney  Daily  Nems,   1-31-08.
DR. BRADY'S LECTURE
On  Experiences  of  Soldier,   Sailor,  Author  and  Preacher.
"Experiences of a Soldier, Sailor, Author and Preacher," was the subject of the lecture given by Rev. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady of Trinity Episcopal church, Toledo, at the Grand, Tuesday evening. Dr. Brady came to Tiffin under the auspices of the Trinity Club and an ap¬preciative audience spent an evening of rare pleasure. The lecturer has had a more varied life than fal's to most people, and his great fund of humor caused much merri¬ment and contrasted finely with the few stories of pathos which he told. As a naval cadet at Annapolis several rec¬ollections were recounted. A certain cadet by name, Mc-Giffen, in order to escape church attendance claimed he was a Buddhist. This man afterward became a soldier of fortune and incidentally a hero, as he commanded a Chinese battleship in the battle of the Yalo in the Chinese-Japanese war. Dr. Brady left the navy and entered the employ of a western railroad, then located in an army post, and finally took orders in the church. He was in a west¬ern missionary diocese under a missionary bishop where conditions were entirely different from any with which we are familiar. He held services in three different towns on Sunday and two others during the week. At his first visit at Dodge City, the most wicked town in the cow country, he was met by an armed posse and was escorted to the saloon where he held service. When he asked the mean¬ing of the armed escort they replied that they were the religious element of the town and wanted to see fair play, as the others didn't want  a  preacher  around.
His first novel was talked into a phonograph and after¬wards reproduced. Dr. Brady gave a number of sugges¬tions to would-be writers and in a humorous way referred to the convention being held the same evening.— Tiffin Daily Advertiser.
ADDRESS BY REV. DR.  BRADY. "Success   and   Its   Achievements"   His   Subject.
A   Masterful  Discourse  by  One   Famous  as   a  Writer  and a   Preacher.
A literary and intellectual treat was in store for the class and its friends in the address by Rev. Cyrus Town-send Brady, of Kansas City, the speaker of the evening. Dr.  Brady  has  a  fame  all  over  the  land  as  an  author,   preacher and a lecturer.    He has written a great many suc¬cessful  books,   is  the   rector  of  an    Episcopal    church  end has lectured from one end of the country to the other.
Dr.   Brady  had   for his  subject   last  night,  "Success  and Its   Achievements."     With   a   full,   firm   voice,   his   theme showing   complete   mastery   of   the   English   language,   Dr. Brady   held  his   audience   at   the   closest   attention,   for   the commencement address was a masterful one indeed 
"His  romance sparkles with wit and humor and abounds with  dashing  satire."—Nashville  American.
"He  has   the   art  of   the  story   teller  in  no  ordinary  degree   of  development."—Philadelphia  North  American.
"Winged   with   the  spirit  of   laughter."—Boston  Evening Herald.
"A small  but very appreciative  audience gathered at  the Grand last evening to hear the lecture of Rev. Cyrus Town-send  Brady,  L.L.D.
"Undoubtedly  many  were  kept  away  by  the  convention and   other   counter   attractions,   and   others   by   the   intense heat, but those who attended enjoyed a really rare  treat.
Dr.  Brady  told  of  his  experiences  as  a  soldier,  sailor, author   and   preacher,   in   a   most  entertaining way,   his   lec¬ture   being  replete  with  anecdotes  of  a most pleasing kind, and  throughout  he  deftly  blended  wit,  humor  and  pathos. The  lecture was  both very entertaining  and  thoroughly  in¬structive.— Tiffin   Tribune,  May 27,   08.
"In  his  titles  Dr.  Brady gives his books  a  great deal  to live  up  to.     'For Love  of  Country,'  'For  the  Freedom  of the Sea,' 'The  Grip of   Honor'—how  the  words  make  the cheek glow and the puhe  leap!     An ardent patriotism,  ac-cording generous recognition to the patriotism of the enemy, the rush of the salt sea breeze,  the clash of arms, and, best of  all,  men   and  women  that  ring  true  to  the call  of duty are  in them all."—Nerv   York  Times Saturday Review.
"There  is  an honest man'iness  about his work that com¬pels   admiration.-------The   Dial,   Chicago,  III.
"It  is   long since  we  have  seen  so  many  good  stories  to the page  as are  to be  found in  this cheery  little  repository of   quaint   clerical    experiences.      Pathos   and    fun   mingle in  pretty  even  proportion."—The  Dial,   Chicago, III.
"Dr.   Brady   has   a   graphic   and   realistic   power   of   de¬scription.     His  novels   are   full   measure   and   running  over with   thrills."—Brooklyn  Eagle.
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