The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-02-06
TO
LECTURE
Former Marion Divine at Y
M. c. A Meeting,
WILL TELL OF MORALS
"American Morals, /" Subject
of Speakers Address.
Rev. Piatt Has Been LecturiDg
Over the Country Since Leaving
Here and Has Made Good.
WILL TELL OF MORALS

Mr.. Byron G.. Piatt, former pastor
of the Central Christian church of
this city, will address the meeting at
the Y. M. G. A. tomorrow afternoon,
at 2:30 p. M, on the subject,
'"Amerlcan Morals" Men and wom-
en- are invited. Mr.. Piatt Is now
giving all Of his time to the lecture
platform and on Sunday afternoon
will give his standard lecture which
he is giving all over the country
look into the immemorial things OF
moral good and evil with its bear
ings upon cur national destiny.
Among other things taken up in the
lecture is a statement OF causes
which have brought on a problem of
morals; the relation of Industrial
conditions to public morality the
higher education of the masses Of
the people a moral necessity. Among
the many kind things said about the
local lecturer Is this from the Amer
lean Lyceum Union, Rochester, New
York:
Considerably over a Century ago
a French protestant exile by the
name Of John Platt came to this
country to escape religious persecu-
tlon. He settled upon the New Eng
land frontier. From the loins of this
one man have sprung successive gem
erations of soldiers, journalists, poets,
preachers farmers and business men.
From one branch of the family alone
came Col. A. Sanders Platt, the gen.
eral John Piatt, the poet, and Dom
Platt, the journalist. During the
Civil War a score of these men from
both sides of the Mason and Dixon
Line met in battle and fought against
family and blood for a principle.
"The mettle of the ancestral zealot
has reappeared in the life and work
or Byron G. Piatt. The key to the
man is in the line he has chosen for
himself from the poet Heine. Upon
leaving college to enter the ministry
he was drawn irresistibly into the
thick OF the social questions that are
agitating our time. He comes to the
Lyceum platform because he has IN
HIS IDEAS have possessed him COM
pletely and forced him into the arena
10 night for them. Mr.. Platt is an
orator and more-he is a prophet.
voice, gesture and body combine TO
drive home the thing that he has TO
say. First, last and all the time the
message Is the thing. Every sentence
- welded together with overmaster-
'ns conviction. lie possesses tho
charm and magnetism OF down-right
thorough going sincerity. The ro.
nance OF facts and figures. masterIv
argument, thrusts ridicu!e. flashes of
VIII aud impassioned appeals TO rea-
son and conscience, follow each 9th
or IN rapid succession till the wboro
compass of human life Is nIavod
upon. He warns and lIrts his hear
erS INTO enthusiasm by the breadth of
ms sympathy and his passion for
JuStle' His style Is direc; and slmple
anu at times, eplgrammatic with
sharp turns of expression ana sur-
prlses OF thought that keep the list
eher tense with attention.
"The lecture going public has beep
waiting for the man and his message
we predict for Mr.. Piatt an entbIs.
iastic reception and, in short time
place second TO none on the Ivce.
um platform.