Hon. G.A. Gearhart, lecturer

              Hon. G. A. Gearhart
LECTURER.
SUBJECTS: /.    " The Footprints of tip Centuries. M 2.    " Tip Coming fMan. "
3.    "^Dangers That Threaten Our Civilization."
Under the Exclusive Management of  THE   MUTUAL   LYCEUM   BUREAU
CHICAGO
In the States of    Michigan,   Illinois,   Indiana,   Wisconsin,   Iowa,   Minnesota   and   the   West.
INTRODUCTORY.
HON. G. A. GEARHART has been prominently identified with lyceum work under successful managers for the past ten years. The high character of his lectures and his unprecedented success in every section of the country in Lecture, Chautauqua and School Commencement work has given him a place among the leading lecturers on the lyceum platform. Mr. Gearhart's services are in such demand as to take his entire time. For several years he has filled more than one hundred and fifty consecutive engagements during the lecture season, aside from special School and College Commencement and Chau¬tauqua dates. Managers and Committees are unanimous in saying: "Gearhart never fails to 'Strike  twelve'."
Buffalo, N. Y., his home city, showed its appreciation of his worth and high standing as a lecturer in selling 3,500 tickets, at $1.00 per ticket, for his lecture, "Footprints of the Centuries,,, given in that city December 28th, 1903. We commend with pleasure and un¬bounded confidence to Committees and Managers everywhere Mr. G. A. Gearhart and his lectures, any one of which is as valuable as either of the others, but which will be given in the order as they appear on his circular, in Nos. 1, 2 and 3, unless otherwise requested by local managers.
THE   BUREAU.
"The Audience was charmed with the Eloquence of the Lecturer."—Boston Globe, Feb., 3.  1903.
"The lecture excels in poetic grace, in strength of diction, and in depth of thought. Whether humorous or grave, and he can be either with equal success, he is never shallow. He touches a heart interest always, and so wins a response from the hearts of his listeners."—Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N. Y.
"Thirty-five hundred tickets at one dollar each for Mr. Gearhart's lecture on "The Footprints of the Centuries'' is evidence that personal magnetism and brilliant oratory have not lost their power and attractiveness with the people." — Buffalo Express, Dec. 30, 1903.
"Mr. Gearhart's lecture, 'The Footprints of the Centuries,' sold thirty-five hundred dollars' worth of tickets for the Lin-wood Ave. M. E. Church. Lectures still have drawing power with a man of Websterian oratory behind the lecture." —Buffalo Courier, Dec. 30, 1903.
A great, resourceful, brainy, eloquent lecture, based upon facts in history and looking optomistically into the future. "The Footprints of the Centuries" is an "up-to-the-minute'' lecture; and such eloquence, education and oratory are rarely combined in the lecturer of to-day. From the first to the last word the interest never lagged.—The Morning Sentinel, Amsterdam, N. Y., Dec.  1,  1903.
"If the Ladies' Book Club are not always fortunate in securing attractions that meet general approval, they made up for it all on Tuesday evening, in the grand lecture by Hon. G. A. Gearhart. His delivery excelled in every particular. His voice is under perfect control, and his use of the King s English is a poem of rhetorical perfection. It was one o\ the best lectures we ever listened to."—Le Roy Independent, Le Roy, Minn., Jan. 29   '04.
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart with "The Coming Man" was in our People's course, January 23. Without hesitancy we pronounce it the best number of the season."
(PROF.) F.  B.  LANDMAN,
Pittsfield,   Me.,   Prin.   Maine Central Institute.
"The lecture by Hon. G. A. Gearhart in the Woman's Study Club Course will long be remembered as one of tn best lectures to which our people have ever listened. *he audience was held entranced for two hours, for his every sentence was clear, virile, eloquent and free from exaggera¬tion. May he come to us again."—Woman's Study CluD> Whitefield, N. H., Jan. 9, 1903.
MR.  GEARHART'S HOME CITY HONORS HIM.
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1903.
"Last evening the Hon. G. A. Gearhart gave us his lecture, "The Footprints of the Centuries." It was the greatest master-piece of rhetoric, history, poetry, oratory and argument I ever heard, and I have heard the giants of the lecture platform from Beecher down. This is the unanimous verdict of the immense audience that crowded our Lecture Hall to the very doors. We sold thirty-five hundred tickets at one dollar per ticket for this one lecture, which is the greatest triumph in the history of lectures in our city." ELMER E. HELMS, D. D.,
Pastor Linwood Ave. M. E. Church, Buffalo,  N.   Y.
The Lecture by Hon. G. A. Gearhart at the opera house, Saturday evening, was a splendid illustration of the great knowledge obtainable when a strong brain, determined effort, studv, travel and research are combined. He is one of those rare speakers who not only entertains but, being thoroughly conversant with his subject, presents it in such a forcible manner as to make a lasting impression upon his listeners. This was Mr. Gearhart's third appearance in our course and those who heard him deal with the "Footprints of the Centuries'' declare it to be the best yet, and will anxiously await his fourth visit to Newport.—The Journal, Newport, N. V., Dec.   4, 1903.
Hon. G. A. Gearhart is a word painter who touches ordinary events with the brush of eloquence, and whose powers of language enable him to paint marvellous pictures from grand subjects. The lecture was a magnificent effort, filled with lessons from the past and teeming with prophetic inspiration for the future. And then all through it ran a quaint vein of humor that cropped out occasionally, apparent¬ly unbidden, and served to keep the speaker in closer touch with his audience.
This was Mr. Gearhart's initial bow to a Claremont assemblage, but it should not be his last.—Claremont Advocate, Claremont, N. H., Nov. 23, 1903.
The lecture in Washington Hall last evening on "The Footprints of the Centuries" was an eloquent marking of the milestones from the primitive past through the confusion of the ages to the marvelous achievements of the present day, with an optomistic outlook into the future. The lecturer sees beneath the surface even to the eternal foundations, and build¬ing strongly thereupon he presents writh great force and elegant diction the possibilities dawning on the horizon of the 20th Century.                   W. G. ROGERS, D. D.,
Pastor Baptist Church, Watertown, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1903.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12, 1902. "Mr. G. A. Gearhart is, to my mind, one of the most valuable figures upon the American Lyceum. I do not say these words perfunctorily or from mere professional courtesy. Following Mr. Gearhart as often as I have done, I have yet to come in contact with any Lyceum course in America where he had appeared that did not remember him with pleasure and speak of him in terms of enthusiastic admiration. He leaves behind him a distinguished record of eloquence, earnestness, magnetism and uplifting powr and no man better upholds the traditions of the platform or gives to every audience in larger measure the full and overflowing value of the monev which their committee pav him." JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES,
Editor-in-Chief, Atlanta Daily News.
"Footprints of the Centuries" by G. A. Gearhart, is the nnest in Rhetoric, matter and delivery ever heard in our city. The contrasts are vivid and forceful. Almost in one breath he would sweep over a century displaying to his audience all that is inspiring and best. With Gearhart words are electri¬zed. He will always be remembered here for his lecture of Saturday evening."—Torrington Register, Torrington, Conn., Nov. 23, 1903.
Fayette, Iowa, June 19, 1902. ^ The lecture last night by  Hon.  G. A. Gearhart,   "The J-oming man," was superb.      The audience was delighted. We ranks  with  Russell  Conwell  as   a   platform   lecturer. ARTHUR E. BENNETT, Dean of Normal School, Upper Iowa University.
By far the choicest attraction the Glenville Lecture Course ever offered its patrons during the five years of its existence wras the lecture, "Footprints of the Centuries," by Hon. G. A. Gearhart. I have heard the greatest living lecturers in the United States and I am confident that an unprejudiced judg¬ment will place Mr. Gearhart well to the front in the first class.                                                    H. H. CULLY,
Supt. Public Schools, Glenville, Ohio.
"Gearhart came to Milford a stranger to our people. Few had ever heard of him, now all want to hear him again. As a finished orator his equal is rarely heard. It is the uni¬versal verdict that we made no mistake in securing Gearhart. One lady voiced the sentiment of the audience in saying, 'he said more good things in a given time than any lecturer I ever heard before in my life.' His thoughts and expressions resemble Macarthur, and he is more eloquent than Conwell." —Milford Cabinet, Milford, N. H., Nov. 26, 1903.
"Mr. Gearhart was listened to with breathless interest. We have had few speakers in Hartford who have been so universally well spoken of, by the people who heard them, as was Mr. Gearhart at the close of his lecture. So pleased were the officers of the Y. M. C. A. that they immediately decided to invite Mr. Gearhart to deliver the Anniversary Address of the Association in May.—NOEL H. JACKS,
Sec. Y. M. C. A., Hartford, Conn., Dec. 5, 1903.
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart's lecture is said by all to have been one of the greatest ever delivered in Hartford. It was full of intellectuality, eloquence of the highest type, and a moral purpose that thrilled and inspired us all. Not only was the lecture ideal, but the lecturer is a splendid example of the   Christain   American gentleman."
WILLIAM H. MAIN, D. D., Pastor Baptist Church, Hartford, Ct., Dec. 5, 1903.
"It is the unanimous sentiment of those who heard it that the lecture by Hon. G. A. Gearheart at the commencement exercises, Thursday evening, was the finest address ever given in this city by any lecturer."—McHenry County Republi¬can, Woodstock, 111, June 19,  1903.
"The lecture of Hon. G. A. Gearhart at the Grand, Thursday evening, was the closing and the best number of the Lyceum Association's Course. Dignified in appearance, he gave a lecture that charmed one throughout with its purity of thought and diction. It was a lecture that filled in every respect the commendations it has received elsewrhere." — The Republican, Decorah, Iowa, March 26,  1903.
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart, the 'Silver-tongued Orator,' de¬livered his lecture on 'The Coming Man' at the Opera House, Friday evening, it being his second appearance in our city. We have heard Mr. Gearhart three times during this season and it is not saying too much when we say that he is the most eloquent, the most forceful and the most pleasing lec¬turer to whom it has been our good pleasure to listen." — Viroqua Republican, Vircqua, Wis., March 24,  1903.
"Our citizens have just listened to the best lecture given in Montezuma for years. Hon. G. A. Gearhart has a pleasing personality, fluency, a choice selection of words, a splendid voice and an unusual skill in presenting high ideals while dealing with social problems and reviewing historical and scientific progress. Many who were present said they had reeeived in this one lecture the value of the entire season ticket."—The Palladium, Montezuma, Iowa, Feb.  19, '04.
Cedar Falls, Iowa, April 7th, 1903. Having heard Hon. G. A. Gearhart deliver his lecture on "Footprints of the Centuries/' it affords me pleasure to say that Mr. Gearhart moves upon a high plane of thought, commendably practical in its bearing and poetic in its concep¬tion and expression. To hear him is to be entertained and profited.                           J. G. MAGEE,
Presiding Elder Cedar Falls District, Upper Iowa,
M. E. Conference.
"His diction is fine, his logic full of force, and his eloquence held our large audience, (including our whole high school), from the first to the last word/'
(PROF.) J. G. GUNTHER,
Supt. of Schools, Galion, O.
Remington, Indiana. The Hon. G. A. Gearhart, of Buffalo, N. Y., gave us a series of three lectures during our assembly of 1903.
The management and patrons of the assembly regard them among the very best given during the year. Our magnificient program included such men as Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, of Chicago; Rev. Thos. E. Green, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Rev. Frank Bristol, of Washington, D. C. and Mr. Gearhart. Fountain Park Assembly, 1903.
ROBERT PARKER,
Superintendent.
"Four times, it has been my privilege and pleasure to in¬troduce to Commencement and Lecture Course audiences, that very able speaker, Hon. G. A. Gearhart, of Buffalo, N. Y. Upon three of those occassions "The Coming Man" was successfully proved to be a noble inspiration. Upon the fourth, "The Footprints of the Centuries'' delightfully entertained a large and critical audience. Mr. Gearhart has addressed Sparta audiences upon three different occasions, and our patrons are clamoring for another engagement."— Sparta, Mich., 1903,          L. L. COATES,
Supt. of Schools and Manager of Lecture Course.
"It is a matter for congratulation to know the lecture plat¬form is still graced with purposeful men who have both the ability and the desire to make it—what in its proper use it really is—an instrument of highest good. Mr. Gearhart has appeared before our citizens in two different courses, and in each instance he has left with us a purpose and an inspiration for better things. We confidently commend the platform work of Hon. G. A. Gearhart/'
REV. A. J. ARN, Pastor Con. Church, New Lisbon, Wis.,   Nov.   11,   1903.
"G. A. Gearhart lifts his auditors to a higher plane of thought, and no one can listen to him and fail to catch the inspirations that guide to nobler citizenship.,,—Orson Warren, Prin. Training School; C. F. Walker, Supt. Schools, Elmira, N. Y.
"It was one of the best lectures ever heard in Lancas¬ter and we are all glad, from pupil to parent that we have heard Mr. Gearhart. There was not a moment from start to finish in which the lecturer did not have his entire audience listening most intently to his noble and stimulating thoughts, his fluent words and beautiful imagery. Best of all, the man seemed   to  fit   the   lecture   and   the   lecture fit  the man."
(PROF.) W. O. SMITH, Prin. Lancaster Academy, Lancaster, N. H., Dec. 10, 1903
"The finest lecture I ever listened to."—Elisha J. Steele, Chairman Board of Education, Torrington,  Conn.
"The finest lecture ever given in this city by anv lecturer 'The Coming Man.' The Republican wishes that a pUrs' might be raised and that every young man be given a free ticket to hear this great lecture."-—McHenrv Countv Re publican, Woodstock, 111., June 19, 1903.
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart, the same as on his previous visit here, captivated the audience with his sound logical reasoning and superb rhetoric."—The Earth, Edgerton, O., Feb. 20 1903.
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart's lecture was certainly a fitting close to the excellent course of winter entertainments, and we never saw a more attentive audience."—Bushnell Record Bushnell, 111.,March 20, 1903.
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart7s lecture was by far the best given in the Citizens' Course this season. He was not a stranger to our people, and this lecture has placed him still more firmly in our already high appreciation of his ability."—Ingham County News, Mason, Mich., March 5,  1903.
"The management of the course of lectures is fortunate in having secured such a lecturer as G. A. Gearhart to strengthen its program. Everybody is enthusiastic over Gear-hart's lecture. What he said and the manner in which he said it were of the highest order."—Amsterdam Daily Re¬corder, Dec.  1,  1903, Amsterdam, N. Y.
This morning many of our prominent citizens said to me: "that was a magnificent lecture last evening." "You must have Gearhart again next season and we will give him a warm reception." If we have a course next season Mr. Gearhart will be in it."
JOHN A. CARNAGEY, Supt. of Schools, Noblesville, Ind., Dec.  18, 1903.   1
Kentucky Wesleyan College, Winchester, Ky., Oct. 6, 1903. My Dear Mr. Gearhart:—
"There is but one opinion in regard to your lecture on "The Coming Man." Everyone who heard it is delighted and there is general desire that you give us another. I must express my appreciation of your high plane of thought and of your very manifest effort to uplift more than to amuse. Such lectures must bring forth fruit in character. I wish all our young men could hear it."    JOHN L. WEBER, D. D.,
President Kentucky Wesleyan College, Oct. 6, 1903.
"The Lecture of Hon. G. A. Gearhart on "The Coming Man" with which our course was opened last evening was in every way admirable, full of thought, inspiration and in¬terest. In the students of our two colleges who formed a large part of the audience it could not fail to kindle aspira¬tions for the highest and best in life. The rapt attention given throughout proves that sound sense and high moral and Christian ideals have power with all if rightly presented. (PROF.) J. J. PARKENSON, Theological seminary, Due West, S. C, Oct. 8, I9°3
"Hon. G. A. Gearhart lectured to our people Jan. 23 0l "The Footprints of the Centuries." It was by far the best lecture ever offered to the citizens of our community. ^ur lecture committee was pleased and Mr. Gearhart's audienc was delighted. I have had opportunity to hear the greates lecturers in the United States. Unprejudiced in judgment, consider Mr. Gearhart among the ablest. I have heard nis three lectures on three occasions and he has not been * disappointment."
W. E. WIRE, I  for twelve years Supt. of Schools of McHenrv Co., Illinois* Feb.  1, 1904.