Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — ROY L. SMITH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROY L. SMITH.

Roy L. Smith comes out of the dynamic west with all the enthusiasm and vigor of the frontiersman. After ten years nf firing furnaces and painting signs he completed high school and entered college with $9.35 as his total resource and now holds three degrees from famous universities. At twenty-one he was preaching tn a western Krnsas town anti filling lecture .engagements on nearby lyceum courses. At twenty-three Redpath was advertising him as. “the youngest professional keturer In the United States.’’ At twenty-five Dr. Frank W. Gun saulus met him on (he Chautauquaand invited him to come to Chicago as

Ma associate, which position he occu pied for two years. During his uni verslty course he filled nearly a hundred paid'lecture engagements in and near Chicago. As a student be was called upon to supply some, of tlie most prominent pulpits in his denomination in Chicago and for several months was the acting pastor of the famous .People’s church of St Paul, Minn. At present he is at the head of an institu tional church in one of the most dlffl cult fields in Chicago. As a lecturer Mr. Smith Is not an experiment In addition to four years in Lyceum he has spent four seasons on Redpath Chautauquas lecturing and su perintending. His carefully trained voice is a heavy bass of great power and attractiveness. Few speakers can boast of a better vocal equipment In style he is vigorous, earnest and at times intensely dramatic. His sentences are clean cut and epigrammatic. Boys and girls listen to Mr. Smith be cause he is' simple and direct The youth listens to him because he Is young, alert and witty. The adult listens to him because he is thoughtful and logical At Presbyterian Church, Dec. 18.

ROY L. SMITH.