Hon. Walter M. Chandler of the New York bar

              Hon. Walter M. Chandle
OF THE  NEW YORK  BAR
List if Subjects
THE TRIAL OF JESUS FROM A
LAWYER'S STANDPOINT HUMOROUS   EXPERIENCES ABROAD SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTCH THE MASTER MAGICIAN THE GREAT REPUBLIC KNIGHTHOOD AND CHIVALRY
The Brockway Lecture Bureau
6101 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA.
Hon. Walter M. Chandler
ANNOUNCEMENT
IR. CHANDLER is a practicing attorney at the bar of New York City, was bred in Kentucky, graduated in the academic course from the University of Virginia, graduated from law in Ann Arbor and was a student of constitutional law in Heidelberg. He is still a young man, tall, dignified-looking, with a full, rich, resonant voice; his delivery is animated and impressive and his logic incontrovertible. He has something to say and says it. His lectures have met with a phenomenal reception among Lyceum committees, and the Bureau takes great pleasure in announcing him for another season.

E. C. Paxton, Pastor United Presbyterian Church, Irwin, Pa.:
We had with us in the Lecture Course last uight Hon. Walter M. Chandler. Subject: "The Trial of Jesus   from   a   Lawyer's   Standpoint."     It   i>  Spoken   oi
by tlu- more than representative audience present as above criticism. For more than an hour and a half he held the closest of attention, that at times was almost breathless in intensity. For such courses as the one in Irwin, 1 cannot conceive of a more popular and instructive lecture and lecturer than Mr. Chand¬ler. We shall surely want him again next year if the course  is continued.
H.   N.   Hansen,   Gen.   Sec.   Central   Y.   M.   C.   A., Eimira,  N. Y.:
In the truest sense a masterpiece—this can he said of the lecture on "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint." as delivered by the Hon. Walter M. Chandler, of the New York bar. Mr. Chandler pos¬es a tine voice, is skilled in the use of words, pre¬sents a splendid appearance on the platform, and is withal a Christian gentleman, His hearers are won at the fall of the first few words, and the eyes of all are riveted on him. He is a master of the law. interprets it without a fault, and leads his hearers from one sub¬lime realm to another. What may appear to he from the nature of the subject a dry lecture proves a most Fascinating and instructive discourse of the world's greatest tragedy. Men from all ranks unite in un¬stinted praise of the high moral value of this lecture. He will till a return date in Eimira soon. Associations will do well to see that Mr. Chandler has no vacant dates.
T.   H.   Bradrick,   Gen'l  Sec'y  Y.   M.   C.  A.,   Piqua, Ohio:
Every one was pleased with Mr. Chandler and his method of handling his theme. There was some fear that the lecture would he hut the restatement of facts which are known to all. ami that the entertainment would partake somewhat of the commonplace. This was not the case. The treatment was fresh, original, interesting and full of instruction. We hope that we '•n  have   Mr.  Chandler  with   us  again.
M. W. Reece, Chairman Lecture Course Committee, Bellevue, Ohio:
Mr.   Chandler   was   with   us   last   Thursday   evening and g£ve good satisfaction.     His lecture on "Tin- Trial of Jesus"   was  greatly   appreciated   by   all   thoughtful people   who heard him.     He  leaves  :i profound  inij sion  that  is wholesome in its tone.     I  am glad to ommend him.
H. E. Dodge, Gen. Sec, Y. M. C. A., Warren, Pa.:
Every association, where it is possible, should have Hon. W. M. Chandler, of New York City, deliver his address on "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint." No words can adequately describe it. We have engaged Mr. Chandler to repeat this address next  season.
H. M. Graham, Librarian   Pittsburg Library Asso¬ciation:
I congratulate you upon having Mr. Chandler in your Lecture Bureau. It affords me pleasure to say that his address last evening on "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint" was one of the greatest ever delivered in Pittsburg, and yet he was not at his best, for he had been ill all day. It was received by expressions of praise by the whole audience. There were several ministers and other professional men present who are competent judges, who said the ad¬dress was a profound and brilliant presentation of the subject, and that his legal points were well made. We shall engage  Mr. Chandler next season.
Rev.  0.  S.  Metzler, Manager Lecture Course, Em¬porium, Pa.:
According to our wishes. Mr. Chandler gave us "Humorous Experiences Abroad.'.' The lecture was well received. 1 enjoyed it fully as much as Dixon's "Backbone," and regard him as the hitter's equal in all respects. A discriminating and intelligent lady in my congregation volunteered the opinion that it was the best lecture even given in the town. The night was stormy and the audience the smallest since the course started, hut its appreciation was keen and the interest in  the  nearly  two  hours that   he  Spoke  never   flagged.
Hon. Walter M. Chandler

Chicago   Times-Herald:
Mr. Chandler's oratorical effort was probably the most impressive ever heard on the campus and his de¬livery was  without a fault.
Big Rapids (Mich.) Pioneer:
Mr.   Chandler   is  an   orator   the   like   of   whom   has not been in Big Rapids since Gunsaulus or Wendling were here. Chautauqua Journal:
Mr. Chandler attracted such favorable attention at the Chautauqua last summer that he was one of the first to be invited to "come again." He is among the brightest orators now living in America, and is a credit to his state and country.
Miamisburg (0.) News:
Since the days when George R. Wendling lectured in Miamisburg no lecturer has equaled Hon. Walter M. Chandler, who was here Tuesday evening. His subject was "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint," and the able lawyer and fine orator held the large audience Spellbound as he elucidated the Jewish and Roman law and narrated the events and incidents of that most memorable of all trials. This lecture was the fourth in the Epworth League course, and to our mind was the hot ever given by the Ep worth League. Shamokin (Pa.) Daily Herald:
A   large   and   cultured   audience  heard   the   edifying
lecture of Hon. Walter M. Chandler, of the Xew York bar, at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium last evening, the entertainment being the second of the star course of six. Mr. Chandler's subject was "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint," and the brilliant young lawyer expounded his theme with a profound thought and elegance and concision of expression that held the closest attention of his audience. After stating that the two fundamental principles of every case were first the law and next the facts, he launched into a dissertation on the Jewish statutes and customs, de¬scribing the jurisdiction and method of procedure in the Sanhedrin, the supreme court before which the Christ was tried. The lecturer then vividly pictured the actual trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin, pointing otit that the hearing was conducted in direct contra¬riety to the law. even the judgment ^i death by cruci¬fixion being illegal. In any other ancient or modern court the judgment would have been set aside, entered
was in violation of so many penal laws, and the lecturer   arrived   at   the   logical   conclusion   that  Jesus
judicially murdered. Mr. Chandler drew vivid pictures of Caiaphas, Pilate. Herod and other princi¬pals in the four trials of Jesus, his descriptions being brilliant yet terse and forceful. His tribute to Mc-Kinley, interpolated in the lecture, was a glorious one. He said it wa> not his purpose to preach a sermon, but his lecture was a better homily than is heard from many a pulpit. He gave his hearers something to take  with  them  and  meditate  upon.
Bethany (W. Va.) Bulletin:
The lecture Friday night given in Chapel Hall by the Hon. W. M. Chandler came up to the most san¬guine expectations. Mr. Chandler has chosen an in¬tensely interesting theme, "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint." He is a practicing attorney at the bar of Xew York City, and is a highly educated man. Bred in Kentucky, graduated in the academic course from the University of Virginia, graduated from law school .d Ann Arbor, a student of constitutional law in Heidelberg, a much traveled man withal, and a man of strong sense, it is not surprising that he is a bril liant platform lecturer. Those who missed hearing Mr. Chandler's classic and forensic picture of the triai of Jesus are great losers. The committee are to be congratulated on securing such a scholarly and attrac tive treatment of this subject.
Canonsburg (Pa.) Notes:
Praise is heard, on all sides, of the lecture delivered in the opera house Tuesday evening by Walter M. Chandler. Mr. Chandler is a man of tine presence, of dignified bearing, and is gifted with a voice at once clear, rich and full. His enunciation is perfect, and he is heard with great ease. His treatment oi his great theme is everything that could b< asked for by the most exacting. In opening, the lecturer paid a high compliment to the Jews as a people, for their moral integrity, persever ance under great discouragements, and intellec tual ability. He cited many examples of Jews wh have risen t<> the very highest point of attainment i all the professions and business of life. In his discus¬sion of the trial of Jesus Mr. Chandler showed minute and comprehensive grasp of Hebrew law. and explained in minutia the mode of procedure of the Hebrew courts in the days of Jesus. It was proven that almost every step taken by the supreme court of the Jews in that most momentous trial of the age was in violation of law. while the trials, so-called, be¬fore Pilate and Herod were outrages almost unpara leled in the annals of time. The character of Pilate was analyzed, and his conduct on the occasion of the great trial pictured so vividly that the Roman ruler stood before the audience as though on canvas. The treatment of the great theme was scholarly, thorough, reverent, and produced a profound impression on the hearers. There was little demonstration on the part of the audience, but a burst of applause at the close testified deep appreciation; but this was still more clearly shown by the close attention of the hearers and the profound silence which prevailed throughont the hall during the entire time, and the people, as they passed out and exchanged greetings, were earnest and unanimous in the expression of the opinion that it was a great lecture, and one of the best ever deliv¬ered here, and that its influence will be for good and for that only. The ministers present were warm in their expressions of approval, and remarked to the lecturer that they hoped he would have many oppor¬tunities to deliver it. and so §ays The Notes.
Hon. Walter M. Chandler
Emporium (Pa.) Press:
In spite of the slush and rain the court room was nearly filled last Saturday evening On the occasion of Mr. Chandler's lecture. The lecturer abundantly made d his reputation as an entertainer and instructive speaker. A native of Kentucky, he has a South¬erner's temperamental love and aptitude for oratory; a lawyer, lie is shrewd and keen in observation and pungent and logical in expression) an American. 1 enthusiastically loyal to his country; one who has traveled and lived" abroad, lie has learned to see his country as foreigners see it. We wish to commend particularly the tactful way in which lie uttered some very just and much-needed criticisms upon certain American  habits and  id«
Piqua (Ohio) Leader-Dispatch:
Walter M. Chandler, of the Xew York City bar, held the undivided attention of a large audience at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium last evening during his lec¬ture on "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Stand¬point." Aside from it- splendid argument, the lecture was a treat, the speaker's splendid diction and excel¬lent delivery arousing the deepest interest. The lec¬turer's enunciation was perfect and his strong \ carried to the ears of everybody in pleasing tones the words ot" one of the most beautiful discourses ever heard in  this city.
Ashland (0.) Press:
Under the title. "The Trial of Jesus from a Law¬yer's Standpoint.''' lion. Walter M. Chandler, who had the fourth number in this year's lecture course, deliv¬ered one of the most interesting and really instruct ive lectures in the Opera house last Wednesday night that we have heard. We have listened to no lecture during the last decade that, according to our views, had more profound thought, more historical truth and more original research compressed into it than has this one. Mr. Chandler deals with his sub¬ject exactly the same as he would any cast- in court. With his audience as jury he argues his case, makes his legal comparisons, sums up his evidence, and turns the case over to his jury for their decision. In fact, the lecture is more of an argument than it is a lecture, and as such it is necessarily different from any lecture Ashland people have heard. Meaning¬less metaphors, ambiguous similes, flights of ora¬tory, perorations and so on and so forth have no place in this lecture. Mr. Chandler divests himself of his "learnedness" and give- his hearers a strong, clear and profound exposition of his subject in sim¬ple yet powerful and unanswerable arguments that follow one another with such precision and rapidity that the listener is almost bewildered by the bril¬liant array of facts presented. Mr. Chandler's state¬ments regarding the important part the Jew has played in the world's history, and his enviable position in Europe to-day, in finance, politics, religion and schools, are not overdrawn in tin- least, although they are doubtless new to the majority of his hearers wherever he delivers this lecture. His explanation of the ancient Jewish legal customs was wholly new to nine of every ten people in the large audience, and besides being of special interest on that account, showed a vast amount of original research on the speaker's part; and his description of the scene when Christ was brought before Pilate is nothing short of sublime.
Charleroi (Pa.) Mirror:
Those who attended the lecture at School Hall last Tuesday night were treated to a masterpiece in ora¬tory when Hon. Walter M. Chandler, of the New York bar. delivered his lecture. "The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint." Mr. Chandler is a young man of prepossessing appearance and much personal magnetism, lie possesses a remarkably fine voice for oratory and a splendid vocabulary, and from his first appearance he held the atten¬tion of his audience to the end. What might have appeared as a dry discourse from the topic of the lecture proved to be one of the mosl delightfully fascinating addresses a Charleroi audience has ever been granted the privilege of hearing. Mr. Chandler is a master of the law. and proceeded to in¬terpret in a form which all might understand whether, according to law. the Savior was fairly tried or judi¬cially murdered. In going over the case from a standpoint Mr. Chandler proved that there \y< twenty irregularities in the trial which in a modern court of justice would have called for a reversal of the decision.
Jamestown (N. Y.) Evening Journal:
Bright, breezy, crisp and witty may all be applied with singular appropriateness to the lecture- given in Institute Hall Monday everting by Hon. Walter M. Chandler,   of the   Xew   York   bar,  on   "Humorous
periences   Abroad,"   a   collection   of   remarkably   en1 taining anecdotes of travel in  Europe.    Mr. Chandler
is an able exponent  of that class of speakers the mem bers  of   which   find   it   within   their  power  to   take   an incident   not   amusing   it   itself   and   so   clothe   it   in   a choice use of words and appropriate facial expressions that  the audience will  fairly howl with delight.
Wheeling (W. Va.) Daily Intelligencer:
It was a very appreciative audience that filled the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. building last evening to hear Hon. Walter M. Chandler, of New N who delivered an eloquent yet highly amusing lecture upon the topic, "Humorous Incidents Abroad." The affair was one of the concluding numbers of the as ci.ition's winter lecture series, and it may be truth¬fully said that it was one of the most enjoyable of the entire series. The young orator treated the topic in a manner most entertaining. He brought out the fact that the manner in which the residents of other nations look at the American is not conducive to the acquirement of much conceit by us. He said: 'AW- are regarded by the European nations as a nation of tradesmen and money-lovers— as a people whose chief love is that of gain. Our musical tastes are regarded as those becoming the plebeian, and we are sneered at because we have pro¬duced no such composers as Beethoven, Schubert or Mo/art. while the opinion of our literary efforts is lit¬tle better. Our great men are not given the pr< respect. b.>r instance. George Washington is consid¬ered only as a lucky farmer. The fact is, our 1" known citizen in foreign countries is John L. Sulli¬van." Accompanying the talk were brief descriptive scenes and figures concerning the probable cost o^ making the trip. In concluding he said: "But I am an American, with an American heart, and an Amer¬ican sentiment. I love my country, the great repub¬lic, from the lakes to the gulf, #and from the great ocean waves that lash New England's coast to the imperial confines of the land of the Alontezumas. To me the republican simplicity of the white house is a thousand times more charming than the dazzling splendor of hundreds of European courts."