Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-10-13
COLLEGE

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The health, prosperity and happiness
of u people is as good rs could be Ok
pected.
AS was promised, DR.. Rhea, of Chi
cago, was with us on the 30th, and
gave us a very interesting talk on the
subject of education, and especially
he showed the very great importance
of a college education. On the end we
had with us Miss Florence Stephenson,
of the Home Industrial School of Ashe-
vile, N. G. Miss Stephenson gave us a
very lucid account of the workings of
the school in which she is q very i'm
p~ortant factor.
Pres. Cooter, DR.. Willoughby and
Mrs. Milton Mathes went to Maryville
last week to attend the Synod of Tenn.
Pres. Cooter and Mrs. Mathes have re-
turned and report that everything went
off harmoniously at the meeting. DR.,
Willoughby having obtained from
those who control his time a leave of
absence to extend until the middle or
latter part of this week, has mt re-
turned. We guarantee that his time
will be well spent in the interest of
some good object.
On account of DR.. Willoughby's alb
sence and it being one of the Sabbaths
that Pres. Cooter breaches at Lamar,
we had no preaching at Salem, but
many of your readers know that last
Sabbath was the day set apart for the
Columbian celebration. 1t j~ustlacked
five days of being 400 years since Chris
TOPPER Columbus discovered North
America, and dedicated it to God. The
discovery of America was the greatest
event of the world since the advent Of
Christ. Today we are second to no
country on earth in point of Christian
ity, the arts and sciences, and had you
been at Salem church on last Sabbath
and heard the officers, teachers and pu-
pills of the Sabbath school carry out the
Columbian program that was furnished
by the Board of Missions, you would
have said, as others from a distance
said, that our Sabbath school iss,second
to none. The program consisted of
songs, bible readings by DR.. Dobson,
our Superintendent, and the teachers
and pupils of the Sunday. school, an
essay by Miss Anna Browning, the
composition and rendering of which
would do credit to one of greater expe-
rience and age than Miss Browning.
Miss Anna Bradshaw came next with a
poem that was very appropriate and
well rendered then we had a recitation
on America by Miss Lou Truan. Miss
Lou is n among our advanced stu
dents in college, and always acquits
herself, in whatever she does, with
credit, but on this occasion she beat
herself and pleased and interested all
who heard her. DR.. Willoughby had
hoped when he left to be able to send
some n to deliver the address, but no
one came, and this duty devolved upon
DR.. Dobson, who never shirks any duty
that falls upon him. 1t is not neces-
sary for us to pass any eulogy upon
the Doctors effort, for in this he has
done as he always done his work, well
and to the point, and when he got done
he quit. After some more singing and
a collection for Home Missions, came
the closing prayer by Nc. Mathes, and
we all went home to dinner, knowing
that it was the first and last Columbian
anniversary we ever have or will at
tend. Some one asked why none of
the young gentlemen from the college
were especially connected with the
program. can't cay, l am sure; prob
ably because males alone had the hon.
or of accompanying Columbus on his
perilous voyage to the New World,
they think it proper to let the ladies do
the most of the celebrating, or more
than probable none of them ever at
tended a centennial celebration of the
kind, as most of them are young, and
were raised in the rural districts.
OBSERVER.