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A Century of Maryville College, 1819-1919; Story of Altruism
A Century of Maryville College 18191919 Story of Altruism Author:Samuel Tyndale Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: The Directors of Maryville college Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Book... more »s.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV Dr. Anderson And His Southern And Western Seminary So far as the demands of his academy and theological students and large church and parish would allow, Dr. Anderson continued his Continued "Presbyterian circuit-riding." He Campaigning , , , conducted many sacramental services and series of revival meetings, and was everywhere greatly in demand for special occasions. He was a member of the Visiting Committee of the A. B. C. F. M. to its missions among the Cherokees. The early years of his pastorate at Maryville were years of very great usefulness. Surely his "dissatisfaction" at the limited amount of service he was able to render must now be diminishing or even disappearing. On the contrary, his holy discontent seemed to increase rather than to diminish. On every hand, as he rode over the country, he wit- Distress at nessed the evidences of a deplor- Destitution ,, , . . , ,. . able destitution, and his tender heart was torn with sorrow for the plight in which the young people of many a community found themselves -- without education or religious privileges, andwithout intelligent leadership. Need, crying need, on every side, and not enough men to supply the tithe of the need! At the time of Isaac Anderson's ordination there were only four ministers in all the broad bounds of Union Presbytery; and up to 1819 there were never so many as nine ministers in attendance at a meeting of the presbytery. And the other denominations represented in the field were little better manned. The destitution and the lack of men to remove it reste...« less