Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-08
EXHORTS ALL TO
LIVE PURE LIVES
DELIVERS MASTERY Y ADDRESS
ON BRAINS"
SPEAKER HANDLES DELICATE
SUBJECT SKILLFULLY
Prominent Business Men Commend
Tact Used by ST. Louisan in Pre-
senting Difficult Question
So InteIIigentIy

The mass meeting yesterday after
noon at the Temple auditorium, held
under the auspices of the Young Mems
Christian association, at which Dr.
Henry Stiles Bradley delivered his
mastery. address to men, was one of
the most remarkable meetings ever
| held in Los Angeles. Remarkable in
the interest evinced by more than 1000
men Drawing a binding rainstorm to
be present; remarkable in the wonder
full manner in which the speaker
gripped his audience with his mastery
address, and remarkable in the per-
sonneI CT leading business and pro-
feSSional men who attended, it is no
wonder the intensity of feeling found
its expression at the close of the ad-
dress in a practically unanimous re-
sponse Of the audience by standing to
its feet to pledge with the speaker ''to
think hereafter only pure and clean
thoughts and to live as pure a life as
each man would wish to have his sis
ter, mother, wife or sweetheart to
live'
From the subject, Brains" the
speaker handled the matter of per-
sona1 purity in scientific, refined and
convincing fashion. The wonderful ef-
feet which the presentation of so deli
cate a subject had upon the audience
was attested not alone by the close at
tention and frequent applause, but by
the ovation with which for several
minutes the speaker was greeted at
the close. For half an hour afterward
DR.. Bradley was overwhelmed with
congratulations from prominent citi-
zens, many of whom said the subject
was handled in such manner as would
not have shocked any woman of re-
fnement.
Business Men Commend Address
The following interviews with prom
inent business men secured last night
are typical of the commendation the
address received. A. B. Cass, vice
president Of the Young Mems Christian
association and president of the Home
Telephone company, said: "The ad-
dress of DR.. Bradley was scholarly and
profound and made a deep appeal to
the conscience, better feeling and
higher nature of every man present in
such way as to produce lasting i'm
preston. Just such addresses as this
have raised the standards of business
activity and tone of moral life in a
remarkable degree in the past twenty
years, and it would be of untold ben
eft as a cold business proposition If
this address could be delivered
throughout the country
w. S. Bartlett, treasurer of the Y.
M. c. A. and president of the German
American Savings bank, said: "Dr. |
Bradley's address this afternoon was
both a revelation and inspiration. A
revelation-to ne-because I was not
aware the subject of personal purity
could be handled before an audience
in such personal and pure way. An
inSpiratiOn-tO the thousand men pres
ent, whose riveted attention evidenced
their sympathetic interest-because the !
appeal to reason and to the heart for
a clean and righteous life was put so
q Vrpl q II
day of Judgment only will reveal the
number Of men, lame who today in |
the 'Theater Beautiful Los Angeles, |
were taken by the right hand and |
lifted up as in the instance of Peter
and the certain man at the temple
beautiful Jerusalem. 1t was indeed |
a sermon from the mount
D. E. Luther, general secretary, who |
presided over the meeting, said: -Four
years ago I heard DR.. Bradley deliver |
in an eastern city his address on per- /
sonal purity from the subject of |
Brains Before today had heard this |
talk three times, and was so convinced |
it was the most rational and sane pre- |
sentation of the subject 1 had ever |
heard that 1 asked DR.. Bradley to |
come from st. Louis to Los Angeles for |
the express purpose of repeating this |
lecture to the men of our CITY, Now |
that the fourth time I have heard |
the address, delivered with an inten-
sity and directness surprising any pre-
viouS hearing, I wish to go on record |
that in my twenty years of association |
work and public life L have never heard |
any speaker, on any occasion, to any |
audience, on any subject, more COM |
pletely grip his auditors or more |
unanimously secure results"
Says Address Was Powerful
Rev. Hugh K. Walker, pastor of I'm |
manuel Presbyterian church, is one of a |
number of prominent ministers who |
gave enthusiastic Endorsement to the |
address. When interviewed last night |
he said: "Dr Bradley's address was |
one of the most powerful, if not the |
most powerful, 1 have ever heard, and |
one which is calculated to do the |
greatest good of any 1 have heard in !
Los Angeles. I only wish the weather |
had been so that 5000 men could have |
heard it. 1 cannot speak too strongly |
in praise of the lecture or the lecturer. |
1 am more than glad was there, and |
think it was a magnificent thing for |
our young men,
w. E. McVay, director and chairman |
of the religious work committee Of the |
association, as well as vice president |
of the German American Savings bank, |
calculated his satisfaction as he saw
the effect produced by the lecture. |
Great! Great! Great!" Director J. E. |
Carr of Carr & Stephens, said: "A |
strong address,
Free from emotionalism, the address |
had its foundation in the sciences OF |
psychology and physiology. DIR. Brad /
ley showed himself a thOroughgOing |
student of embryology and human ma
ture, and drew frequent illustrations |
from close observation and long ex-
perience. From a scientific viewpoint |