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The Golden Age
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The Golden Age for November 18, 190 S.
NO LAUGH—NO LECTURE
Is it true that the American patronizes the lecture
platform simply to be amused? The charge has been
made, and many of our most famous lecturers have
apparently bowed to the mandate of a giddy throng.
But vre are not ready to agree with the critics that
the serious lecture is tabooed and under the ban.
A good laugh is much to be desired sometimes, and
we have no unfavorable comment to make of the
lecturer who so weaves his discourse that the lighter
woof intermingles with the more sombre warp. We
advocate everything that tends to brighten and cheer
the world and gladden the hearts of men and women,
but is it not true that a happy blending of mirth
and seriousness is more helpful, more encouraging,
more inspiring and more abiding in its character and
influence than the merely funny lecture?
In support of our theory in behalf of the semi-se
rious lecture, we are giving a striking article from
the pen of Charles F. Sheldon, the well known author
and lecturer. His forceful argument voices our senti
ment exactly:
Is there a legitimate place on the platform for the
serious lecture; and if so, what is the mission which
it ought to perform?
I am, of course, well aware that there is a great
demand for the entertainer; for the funny lecture,
for the man who has a large and varied assortment
of side-splitting jokes of all ages, for the man who
can screw his face into all sorts of shapes and who
can imitate the brogue of every people under heaven;
for the man who can keep his audience convulsed
with laughter two-thirds of the time. For these,
there is always a demand. And I have no quarrel
with mirth, not the least. I know that old saying,
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you, weep and you
weep alone,” and I know there are many people who
like to laugh; for it is not nearly so hard work as it
is to think. Many folks do not train themselves to
think, and the serious lecture is a failure unless the
lecturer speaks to people who think.
But the question to which I am seeking an answer
is this, Is there a real place on the platform, is there
any real demand for the serious lecture? For the
lecture that sends people home thinking, rather than
holding on to their aching sides, and wanting to laugh
some more. The lecture that starts in the minds of
young people, trains of thought, that are finally to
run into the terminal station of splendid activity and
usefulness; the lecture that sows in the minds and
Tennessee Means Business.
The grafters rear; the liquorites howl; the local
optionists squirm, and the moonshiners sit up in
jail and reflect. Tennessee
Uncle Sam is is dry, and she’s getting
Lending Aid to dryer. The loyal prohibi-
the “Booze Fighters.” tionists are looking after
the blind-tigers, and the
Federal officers are making life a burden to the
“wildcat” distillers.
The following article clipped from The Nashville
Tennesseean gives a racy account of a recent raid.
The “old soakers” must have read the account with
great anguish of mind, especially the portion which
relates the “outpouring of the spirits”:
“Collector Knox Booth, Deputy Collector Bowers,
Commissioner J. M. Newman, and Woods Carl and
Knox Newman captured a wildcat still and two oper
ators, Hern Sneed and Walter Turner, on Hester
Creek last night. Lee Story escaped. The young
men were in the act of loading two barrels of whis
key into a wagon. A two-horse wagon and three
mules fell into the hands of the revenue men. This
morning two other stills were discovered and de
stroyed. The three stills were within one and a half
miles of each other. Story, in his flight, left his
coat, in which were found several pictures of the
young man and his sweetheart. Three thousand gal
lons of beer were destroyed by the raiders.
Sneed and Turner were committed to jail, being
unable to give the required bond of SSOO each.
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hearts of those who hear it, the seeds of righteous
ness and purity and moral strength; the lecture that
creates moral muscle and fibre and builds character
in men and women.
I have heard a college president give a lecture that
kept his audience roaring with laughter half of the
time. A lecture in which he jumped up and down,
and sidewise, and flung his coat-tails up over his
back, and did other things, as the auction sale bills
say “too numerous to mention,” and I asked myself,
“Did he do the best thing he could for that audience?”
I believe there is a real place for the serious lec
ture, for the man who out of the years he has lived,
and out of the battles he has had with all the foes of
a man’s soul; out of the deep experiences of his own
life, has found a great throbbing message, beating
like a caged bird at his lips for utterance; the man
who has dreamed dreams and who has seen visions.
For this man there is a place, and a great audience
waits for his message.
And lecture course committees and Chautauqua
managers will make a grave blunder if they fail to
bring to their platforms these men who go not pri
marily for the money but to do good, to build charac
ter, to bring in the Kingdom of God. The serious lec
ture reaches a class of men and women who need to
hear the great character-building truths; the truths
which they might hear from many pulpits, but they
do not go to the churches, and therefore they do not
hear them. But they do go to the lecture often, at
least, and here is the magnificent opportunity of the
man on the platform with a great message that vi
brates with eternal truth, with truth that men and
women must hear and heed, or go into eternity bank
rupt.
It is not possible to compute the value to a com
munity of such a lecture as Mr. Gearhart’s “The
Coming Man,” or Dr. Deßlois’s “Dream of Empire,”
or Dr. Driver’s “America Facing the Far East,” or
one of the splendid messages of the late Prof. De-
Motte, of whom one said, “He does not send men
home laughing, but he sends them home saying in
their hearts, ‘I will not yield my powers any longer
to the uses of sin and uncleanliness.’ ”
There is a rightful place for humor and wit, but
there is also a place for the serious message. So let
us be careful not to let the fun usurp the rightful
place of the sober and serious world that this old
world needs.
He "Depends On the Governor.
It is a great thing to be governor—if you are a
great governor!
The first element of greatness
Noel in any officer of the law is fidel-
Fighting For ity, and no officer can be faithful
Law Enforcement unless he is first vigilant.
Against Blind During the session of the
Tigers. State Convention at Winona last
week Governor E. F. Noel, of
Mississippi, who was confined to his home on account
of illness, sent a communication to the body, asking
them to take a strong stand for law enforcement of
every kind, and especially for violation of the State
Prohibition law.
Governor Noel won his nomination and election
largely on his known position against liquor, and
everybody is ready to declare that he has been true
to his pledges. But he recognizes, of course, the
value of public sentiment to help in this enforcement
of law.
Any governor who sits idly by and sees the state
law flagrantly violated in any community without •
taking vigorously hold of the situation as is his right
and duty has missed the meaning of the high office
and ought to improve or quit.
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