The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-12
Oreenvins. Texas.


Blount County, East Tennessee.
Such reflections bring to my mind
the verses composed by the writer
and author, Of the book known as
Robinson Crusoe; giving an account
of the shipwreck, and solitary abode
of Alexander Selkirk, during his
stay on the Island Juan Fernandez,
when the Scotch sailor reiterated
the following lines, said he:
When think of my own native land,
In moment seem to be there,
But alas recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair.
So,
When think of my own native land,
In moment seem to be there,
But alas recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back TO Texas.
But there is mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought,
Gives every affection grace,
And reconciles man to his lot.
But the lonely dove has gone to her nest,
And the OK has lay down in his lair,
Even here in this seas IN Of rest
And to my cottage repair.
/ was born near Little River, in
Blount County, Tenn. I had the
to lose my mother at
the age of two years, and father at
twelve years of age; after that age
1 had to "paddle my own canoe"
My father, John Campbell, lies
buried beneath the sod in the Eu-
sebia Cemetery. My mother, a
daughter of Charles Mcclure, lies
buried near the Wabash River, in
the State of Indiana.
| notice in your issue of July 18th
1891, in an article over the sigma
ture of John A. Goddard, the name
of DR.. Anderson, as being connect
ed with and instrumental in pro-
curing the location ofthe Maryviile
College, Gas it is now called.) When
first established, that grand and no.
BILE institution was known as the
Maryville Seminary; which literal
ly speaking has the same meaning.
The writer had one uncle, two cous.
ms and one brother-in-law educated
for the ministry at that institution.
If l mistake not, said institution
was gotten up by voluntary dOna'
tions from members and friends of
the old school Pyesbyterians, for
the express purpose of educating
young men for the ministry. And
the DR.. Anderson alluded 10 In Mr..
John A. GOddard's article, was I
presume the Rev. Isaac Anderson,
D. D., who was at first and for many
years principal professor Of said
Theological Seminary, and made
Maryville his place Of residence un-
til his death. DR.. Isaac Anderson
was q scholar of profound and di.
versified erudition, and as q theolo.
gist he had no peer, in his day and
time.
To the great benefit resulting
from literature and cultivation, the
age is indeed thoroughly awake,
and It is consOlatory to turn from
the sickning scenes of the dark and
middle ages, which extends from
the fall of Rome, before the barba.
rous arms of the Cloths, in the fifth
century, to the fall Of Constantine
pie, before the equally barbarous
arms Of the Turks in the fifteenth
century; thus comprising long af.
tiictive night of not less than a
thousand years; and fix the eye in
this point of view, upon our own ma.
tive country, to behold the ingenu.
Gus minds of multitudes, laboring
with the desire of useful knowledge
to contemplate the numerous col.
leges that are rising all around us
devoted to taste, genius, learning
to the liberal arts, and to mark the
generous confederacies by which
they are supported and embellished
In your school of Theology, sur
rounded by walls that were once
enriched with the choicest collec
tons Of ethics and other philosoph
ical literature; but which from 8
concurrence of adverse circumstan
ces, must have fallen into ruins, had
not your generous people with laud
able patronage interp0sed and re-
decorated the sinking edifice, and
made It once more echo to the voice
of instruction and study, where the
genius of science has resumed the
possession of his simple throne, and
Is once more thrOnged by numer.
Gus train of attentive votaries. Per.
NIT me more especially to address
these observations without incur.
ring the charge Of extravaganza
Long may so promising an institu.
ton Enthusiastically may 1t be
cultivated, and of sterling value be
the harvests that 1t may produce.
G. c. CAMPBELL.