The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-04
THANKSGIVING SERVICES.
INTERESTING TIME AT THE
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sermon By Rev. DR.. Boardman.
President OF Maryyille College,

Last Thursday was what we gen.
orally imagine Thanksgiving Day
to b "a snowy, cold, raw day.
TIL snow commenced falling about
daylight and showed at intervals
du ing the whole day. When the
second bell rang al the Baptist
church, at 1880 O'Clock, a large
audience was waiting 10 hear the
Rev. DR.. Boaidman deliver the
address OF the occasion, which we
give below:
GROUNDS FOR THANKSGIVING IN
THE PAST, PRESENT AND PROS
PECTIvE FUTURE OF
MARYVIILE.
Psalms c, 4, 5. "Enter into his
ga,es with thanksgiving, and into
his courts with praise:
Give thanks unto Him and bless
his name. For the Lord is good !;
His mercy is everlasting; and His
faithiulness endureth unto all gen.
eratiOns."
Malyville has very peculiar rea.
sons tor thankfulness. 1t was
founded by Cody people. 1t has
been from the iirst the centre and
source Of wide religious influences.
It Is called the Mecca OF Presbyte-
rianism for all Eastern Tennessee
and the surrounding country. 1t
rejOices in all these several other
vigorous churches, Of different
names, which are here to day, all
essentially one church of our Lord
Jesus Christ. The fame Of Mary
Vile as seat Of religious learning,
has gone out to the ends OF the
earth. In. Japan, in India, In Per-
Ella, in Africa, 1t Is kr own that here
scholars, teachers, preachers, have
been prepared for the service Of
Christ and Of the church.
A locality can scarcely have q
reputation of a higher order than
that 1t Is u noble fountain of Christ
ian education. Maryville has been
known throughout the Union for
about three.quarters of d century
as q place cOnsecrated to theOl0g-
ical and collegiate training. Young
men of sterling characters, vigOr.
GUS minds and of ardent piety, but
without resources for an expensive
education at the North or South,
attracted by the holy enterprise OF
DIR. Anderson and his associated,
have lett their homes in distant
Northern and Southern states, and
come hither, with the sole purpose
of promoting the glory of God and
the advancement Of that kingdom
purchased by the blood of his only
begOtton Son.
The name Of Maryville still has
q sacred sound throughout the
country from these early and hal.
lowed associations. 1t was the
only place singled out for especial
mention among all our college
towns, by the Chairman of the Com
mitt 70 ON Education, in his address:
before the last annual meeting VI
the General Assembly Of the Pres
bytarian church in the City Of New
York.
But Maryville has a present and
q large promise for the future al
well as a past, which call for graft
tude. These occasions for gratitude
are not confined 10 any one con
gregation, but are shared alike by
all. When I look down ever,
morning upon the crowded ranks
of students In the College, at morn
ing prayers, l see, sitting side b,
sine, members of all these cOngre
cations, and feel that we are al
o,e, as our Lord prayed that hi
d sciple might be. 1t is therefor
pecul q 'ly pleasant to mingle GU
thankegivings together in thi
union services to-day, on this hal
lowed national anniversary, OF
served at the same time by forty
two sovereign states stretching
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the lakes to the gulf.
Your attention is therefore, invi
ted to-day to the grounds 70
thanksgiving in the past and pres
ent and in the promise for tn
future of this favored community
LIST. Maryville is TO be consider
ed in its relation to East Tennes
see and to the whole country. Eas
Tennessee and the adjacent noun
famous parts of Virginia and Mort
Carolina may well be called tn
Switzerland of the South, as Vel
mont and New Hampshire are c
the North. These highlands, bot
north and south, have ever bee
filed with an Independent, hardy
liberty loving population. Slave
were never very numerous in thi
region, AS at an earlier day, thong
common, they were never yer
numerous in New England. SUI
pose some of my own ancestors i
Massachusetts and Connecticu
Were shareholders, though probabl
the MAORI y were not. The Scotch
Irish, from whom many of thes
mountaineers and many of the pee
pie of Maryvilie, have been d.
scended, arr like the New Ems
landers generally, an eminent
10y al, resolute, frugal and persister
people. There is scarcely any Otht
portion of the United States, Nor,
or South, which agrees in its pol
ties so exactly with my nativ
state of We, mont, as does East Tel
nesse,. There is also l think som
resemblance in the general chara,