The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-09

nrosram is a concert by Marshalfs
hand F,lon s. Clark will serve as
chorus leader and Prof D. H. Seymour
will act as organist. Raymond ROBINS
the team of eight experts" That WIZ
be here will speak on The Gospel VI
Social Service
Robins has an interesting career; ~, 61e
was born on Staten Island IN Ne"
York state. ,-
As an Indication of his fearlessness
and snirit Of adventure, it may be men
toned that he ran away from nome ~
Louisville when only > years oiu' aiiL
hired ont as q waterboy IN a DITCH
ward But before long he returned nome
to report that he was We'll, anu reIlies 4n.7
cd there for two years When ne sldi 20 20
off again, this time at the ass 10 ~ Ia
i. order to earn his living IN Fiorloa-
If is a remarkable thing psycnoloslz7
cally to see that even IN cary
this boy was conscious WlShih III I ~.
of the passion for independence ~ - ~ ~
d1,striaI freedom of action when 49, -
~ Ia has preached from one enc q tAe
| continent to the otner- - "a
FOR some years the adventurous lau
worked on a Florida farm ana IN az
| orange orchard, attending scnooi ~
tbo v7i1ter seasons. And it was during
| This period of his life that ne CANE l Z
| in contact with young theolosIeal,
student. William A. Fulton, VINO hau
left his seminary Temporarily III u
| n
r-Ino Tneager education which the
x-oI1+1ful Robins had been able to op-
! tain in the country schools IN Wlneel |,
was now supplemented ana soltuil ne.
| through the personal eHofts ol MI
| sutton From that time on youhS
! :, ohins swept ahead in career OF
b1siness success unusual even IN tins
IVhiie still under 81 he was mana
Il ger of a branch store near flo tleIa
6lHSell
70 prospect for phosphate and caoIih'
His efforts were rewarded WITH q uls-
lcovery Of a rich deposit In TINS ne lal9
4 the foundation of a small fortune, anu
soon afterwards went on pros ,,lNseae
ing tour for asphaltam Ianus IL Ae->e'N
and the Indian territory
Then he turned to the study Oh Ia"
and was admitted to the FLORIDA pai
before he was %. But this dld ho'
safety him and he entered the law
Ienartment of Colum bian university al
II washington, D. c., covering a sluuy
noriod of three years and completing
the entire course in one year. lheI
to san Francisco was his next move
where he threw hlmselI lneo 80 erre ,, I1
civic reform with success, aIter Willc Wiz.
he Joined A procession of gold hunters
to the Klondike-
Tn october 1897, his party was
caught in ice foes 400 miles up li'
yukon river and he made the trll
overland to Rampant City with grea'
hardship and at extreme risks IL wa
IN this hazardous Arctic journey ina
Mr. Robins growing appreciation Q.
the ideal and human life reached
sudden climax.
He had up to that time been an az 5g
,oetic in religion. The churches as M
+boTebt he knew them had repealed
him. and his expanding ideals ans
. hopes had not yet impressed him VIII
a consciousness of a religious expert
ence But in his. cherries wanderlil
in the Arctic zone he came upon
Ias,1it mission and convent. and mad
friends with the inmates. through IN
devoted life in voluntary exile, aml'
the snowy wastes of a couontry OF al
most endless night were deVoteo Z
ta11,insr il, practical ways and to teach
4 ing spiritually tribes of men and wo
men and children whose dreary roun'
of existence was passed in that DESC
| lat O land.