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The Christian idea of education as distinguished from the secular idea of education
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Henry Ephraim Robins was a Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Colby University (now Colby College), Waterville, Maine.
Background
Henry Ephraim Robins was born at Hartford, Connecticut in September 30, 1827, son of Gurdon and Julia (Savage) Robins. Descended from old New England stock, he numbered among his ancestors Peter Bulkeley of Concord, Massachussets, and Charles Chauncy, second president of Harvard College. His grandfather, Ephraim Robins, broke with the Standing Order, becoming a Baptist lay-preacher. In Gurdon Robins' home, with Ephraim Robins as prime mover, there was drawn up a petition on behalf of the Baptists which was influential in securing the inclusion of an article upon religious freedom in the new constitution adopted by Connecticut in 1818. The father of Henry E. Robins abandoned a business career to become editor of the Christian Secretary, the organ of Connecticut Baptists; he was later a Baptist minister, and finally a publisher and retailer of books.
Education
After attending Fairmount Theological Seminary and graduating from the Newton Theological Institution in 1861, Henry E. Robins was ordained a Baptist minister, at Hartford in December 6, 1861.
Career
For twelve years he continued in the pastorate, efficiently serving the Central Baptist Church of Newport, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, (January 1862 - May 1867), first as associate and then as full pastor, and the First Baptist Church of Rochester, New York (1867 - 73). In Rochester an addition to the church building, costing in excess of $53, 000, was erected to be used for educational and social purposes, and the Memorial Mission of the church was developed until it became in 1871 the Lake Avenue Baptist Church. From 1873 to 1882, Robins was president of Colby University (now Colby College), Waterville, Maine.
Finding it with fifty students, he left it with an enrollment of 157. During his administration, through the bequest of Gardner Colby and other gifts, over $120, 000 was added to its resources. His arduous and intense labors for the college impaired his health to the extent of making a leave of absence and at last a reluctant resignation unavoidable.
Returning to Rochester, he was appointed professor of Christian ethics in the Rochester Theological Seminary (now the Colgate-Rochester Divinity School).
Although he delivered only a few lectures, he held this professorship nominally until 1903.
His minor writings include Qualifications for Baptism (circa 1867); Harmony of Ethics with Theology (1891); The Christian Idea of Education as Distinguished from the Secular Idea of Education (1895); Faith Rational (no date).
His one major work was a comprehensive survey, of nearly 500 pages, The Ethics of the Christian Life (1904).
Recognized throughout the East as a Baptist leader, he held the office of president of the New York State Baptist Convention in 1873 and of the Maine State Baptist Convention in 1879 and 1880.
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Views
A firm believer in the theory that right thinking precedes right living, he was alert, energetic, magnetic, and possessed unusual business and executive ability.
Personality
Robins was a preacher of exceptional excellence, a minister of spiritual fervor, sympathetic with young people, lovable yet of great strength of will, mature in his convictions, familiar with the educational problems of his denomination.
Connections
He was married thrice: first, August 11, 1864, to Martha J. Bird of Hartford, Connecticut, who died in 1867; second, September 4, 1872, to Margaret Richardson of Rochester, who died the following year; and third, August 7, 1876, to Cornelia Ewell Nott of Boston, who died in 1888. He died at the home of a daughter in Greenfield, Massachussets, survived by her and by a son.
