TEACHING MILLIONS ~ Robert Raikes
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Robert Raikes was the forty-four year old publisher of the Gloucester Journal when he took a Sunday ride into the
country looking for a man he could hire as a gardener.
The sun was bright, the air heavy, and just a hint...
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TEACHING MILLIONS ~ Robert Raikes
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Robert Raikes was the forty-four year old publisher of the Gloucester Journal when he took a Sunday ride into the
country looking for a man he could hire as a gardener.
The sun was bright, the air heavy, and just a hint of breeze
stirred up the dust of the road on that typical English morning in 1781.
The outgoing Raikes was well known in his community, not only for his strong, often biting editorial campaigns but
also for his wealth.
The publisher who had become rich the old fashioned way, he had inherited a fortune from his
father.
Yet rather than sink in a world of debauchery, using his inheritance as a means of living the high life, this
husband and father had employed his resources to serve the underprivileged in the area.
Nowhere had his concern and compassion been more evident than when he led a fight for the rights of prisoners at the
local jail.
The editorial driven battle had initially caused a drop in his paper s circulation because
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