The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-04

)r will soon need a hundred pews.
The other churches will also de-
mand generous accommodations.
Let large enterprise prevail. Let
ns deny ourselves to meet tie needs
Df the present and of the futrI e.
Let us all work together. Let us
have mutual interest and pride in
each other. In Syracuse, n. Y, a
Presbyterian has just built, at an
expense of hali-million of dollars,
the finest college building on The
globe, for The Methodist University
in that city. Presbyterians have
often done similar things for other
denominations. Let this free i'll
terchange of benefcence be encour-
aged. Maryville has justly COM
mon inheritance in all her schools
and churches. Every stone laid,
every Improvement made on Col
lege Hill is all advantage 10 all the
citizens OF the place. All citizens
OF whatever class, can welt afford
t. contribute to beauty It's grounds
enlarge its libraries aud cabinets,
and increase its facilities OF instruc-
ton. The benefits flow back upon
your own homes. Your own child
rem will reap the golden harvest.
Future generations wilt bless you
for your munificence. Peculiar
circumstances have circumscrjbed
the past financial ability of this
portion of the country. We have
needed and rece we'd, we still need
and shall need, and ought to re-
ceive assistance; but let us look for
the time and aspire to hasten it,
when the South shall not thus need
assistance, and when the rich nat
ural resources of East Tennessee
shall amply provide for her own
religious and educational instiiu-
tiOns. Shall not q dozen or twenty
stately college edifices grace yon.
der hill century hence; as now
at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton I?
Their early buildings were not so
good as ours. They had not 80
many students as We have. Meth.
er Is surrounded with agricultural
and mineral resources 80 amuent
as ours. But in all human affairs,
results depend upon voluntary &C.
tivity. There is = sense In which
it h true, that we are the architects
Of our own fortune. The people Of
Maryville are in an important sense
to make the future Of Maryviile.
Shall 1t be known as one Of the
most attractive university towns in
America, and its college as one Of
the largest and best equipped; then
must we who are now here, have
an important agency in making II
such. We must ourselves be resO-
lutte, enterprising, energetic, public.
spirited, self-denying and aggres.
sive. Events do not shape them.
selves. Man is, in an important
sense, the arblter Of his own desti.
ny. Every little contributes to the
general result. What farmer with.
in FIVE miles of the College, could
not well afford five days labor with
his team to grade, embellish and
fertilize the ample and commanding
College grounds? In Clinton, N
Z, the favored seat of Hamilton
College, there has long existed a
village improvement society, which
has largely contributed to beautify
the whole place. Fountains, lawn,
groves, winding paths, roads, hedges
banks Of flowers, are everywhere
seen, pleasing every sense. Why
should it not be SO here? One
aspirant in this goodly work stimu.
lates another. Stockbridge, Mass.
owes its wide fame as a place of ex'
quisite beauty, to similar society
Maryville has already a nationa
reputation as a venerable seat o
le .rning. Let it and also the fame
Of exquisite landscape gardening
social refinement, and of moral AM
3 ,,iritual elevation. Such charac
ristics and the efforts and enter
p,ise that 60 with them will attrac
population and wealth. Knoxvill,
and Chattanooga are destined eacl
soon 10 have 100000 Inhabitants
Some will prefer to retire to NOR
quiet and perhaps more intellectu
I'll communities. We may just!
expect the time when these sight !
building places, thickly scattere,
about Maryville will be Occupie,
with stately and inviting homes Q
elegance and wealth. Increase,
population will bring trade ant
manufactures, ard lead to constan
growth and general prosperity.
1t is one of the felicities Q
thanksgiving occasions that W
can, in union services like these
c )nsider together local interests Q
importance, such AZ are less apprO
D., late 10 the stricter sanctities G
the holy Sabbath. Also public an,
general affairs are deemed apprC
pirate for Thanksgiving Day. Sew
eral of the most eminent clergy
men of America, Of different dc
nominations, have requested tn
clergy ON this day to discuss an
commend to the American peopl,
Civil Service Reform. Civil Sci
vice Reform, l am sure we all ~
prove. The spells system we abh0l
Purity in elections and honesty i
all office holding we earnestly de-
sire. But how shall we best pre-
mote these results? How so we
as by correct teaching in all on
schools and colleges, and by vigol
GUS Christian training in all gu
churches? Make our people intel
ligent and patriotic, pure and JUS
and the work has been done. Her