1830 - Spring 1832
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, October 29, 1830, Mr. T. C. Anderson was appointed Tutor. The following is the record:

"On motion of R. A. Patterson, resolved, that Thos. C. Anderson, be, and he is hereby, appointed tutor in Cumberland College, for the term of one year, commencing on the first Monday in November next, and that he receive for his services the sum of five hundred dollars payable semi-annually, and that he also act as librarian for said college, and that he be allowed to board and have his washing done at the refectory free of cost, he having been examined according to the by-laws."

It may be mentioned here that Mr. Anderson was reappointed at the commencement of the next year, and thus gave two years of service to the college. Owing perhaps to the change in the price of board and tuition, as recommended by the General Assembly, the number of students was not so large as it had been; and for a year and a half two teachers were considered sufficient. Dr. Anderson has been prominently connected with the operations of the Church for forty-five years, and needs no additional notice here.

Messrs. Cossitt and Anderson continued as the only teachers to the spring of 1832.

Mr. Anderson, who closed his connection with the college as an instructor, with the close of the year [1832], received the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts.

[Source: Beard, Richard. "Sources and Sketches of Cumberland Presbyterian History. No. V." The Theological Medium. A Cumberland Presbyterian Quarterly. April 1876, pages 142-143, 145, & 147]

1837
Thos. C. Anderson
Minister - Nashville Presbytery - Franklin Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 16-24, 1837, in Princeton, Kentucky.
Served on Committee on the State of Religion and Statistics of the Church, Committee on the Minutes of Union Synod, Committee on the Cumberland Presbyterian.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1837, pages 185, 188 & 189]

1840
T. C. Anderson
Minister - Tennessee Presbytery - Columbia Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 19-2 , 1840, in Elkton, Kentucky
Served on a Committee to draft rules for the regulation and government of the Assembly.
Served on Committee on Education.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1840, pages 258, 260, 262]

1846
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, A.M.
President and Professor of Belles Letteres and Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, 1846-7]

1847
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, A.M.
President and Professor of Belles Letteres and Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, 1847-8]

1849
T. C. Anderson
Minister - Chapman Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 15-23, 1849, in Princeton, Kentucky.
Served on Committee on Synopsis of Business.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1849, pages 6 & 8]

1850
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, A.M.
President
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1850-51]

1850
T. C. Anderson
Minister - Chapman Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 21-27, 1850, in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Served on Committee on Overtures.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1851, pages 5 & 6]

1851
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, A.M.
President
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1851-52]

1852
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, A.M.
President
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1852-3]

1852
T. C. Anderson
Minister - Chapman Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 18-25, 1852, in Nashville, Tennessee.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1852, page 6]

1853
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, D.D.
President
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1853-4]

1854 is the first year there were directories in the General Assembly Minutes.

1854
Faculty
Rev. Thos. C. Anderson, A.M.
President and Professor of Belles Letteres and Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1854-5]

1854
T. C. Anderson, Lebanon, Tenn.
Minister - Chapman Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1854, page 87]

1855
Faculty, Thomas C. Anderson, D.D.
President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1855-6]

1855
Minister - T. C. Anderson
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 15-22, 1855, in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Served on Committee on the State of Religion.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1855, pages 5 & 8]

1856
Faculty, Thomas C. Anderson, D.D.
President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1856-7]

1856
Lebanon Presbytery Directory not in General Assembly minutes.

1857
Faculty, Thomas C. Anderson, D.D.
President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1857-6]

1857
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1857, page 70]

1858
Faculty, Thomas C. Anderson, D.D.
President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1858-9]

1858
Minister - T. C. Anderson
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 20-28, 1858, in Huntsville, Alabama.
Served on Committee on Education.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1859, pages 5 & 7]

1859
Faculty, Thomas C. Anderson, D.D.
President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy
[Source: Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, for the Academic Year, 1859-60]

1859
No Presbyterial Directories in the General Assembly this year.

1860
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 17-25, 1860, in Nashville, Tennessee
Served on Committee on Education.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1860, pages 5 & 7]

1861
No Presbyterial Directories in the General Assembly this year.

1862
No Presbyterial Directories in the General Assembly this year.

1863
No Presbyterial Directories in the General Assembly this year.

1864
No Presbyterial Directories in the General Assembly this year.

1865
Lebanon Presbytery Directory not in General Assembly minutes.

1866
Rev. T. C. Anderson, D.D., Vice President of the Board of Missions.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1866, page 56]

1867
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 16-24, 1867, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Served on Committee on Missions
T. C. Anderson, D.D., Corresponding Secretary, Board of Missions, at Lebanon, Tenn.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1867, pages 5 & 8]

1868
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
T. C. Anderson, D.D., Corresponding Secretary, Lebanon, Tenn., Board of Missions
Commissioner to General Assembly, May 21-29, 1868, in Lincoln, Illinois
Served on Committee on Missions
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1868, pages 3, 7, 10 & & 104]

1869
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1869, page 82]

1870
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1870, page 77]

1871
Minister - T. C. Anderson, D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1871, page 78]

1872
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1872, page 119]

1873
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1873, page 96]

1874
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1874, page 95]

1875
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1875, page 79]

1876
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1876, page 89]

1877
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1877, page 84]

1878
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1878, page 92]

1879
Used directory for 1978.

1880
Minister - Anderson, T. C., D.D., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1880, page 115]

1881
Minister - Anderson, T. C., Lebanon, Tenn.
Lebanon Presbytery - Middle Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881, page 87]

1882
Deceased Ministers
Lebanon Presbytery - T. C. Anderson, D.D.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1882, pages 32 & 104]

Our venerable father, Rev. T. C. Anderson, D.D., of Lebanon, Tenn., died of Friday of last week. He was well known as the President of Cumberland University in its palmiest days. He was far advanced in age, and has long been affected. Rev. Dr. DeWitt received a dispatch calling him to Lebanon, to participate in the funeral services, and went up on Saturday morning.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, February 9, 1882, page 4]

Thomas C. Anderson was born in Sumner county, Tenn., Oct. 21, 1801. He was the youngest son of Rev. Alexander Anderson, whose brief but brilliant career was the delight of those who heard his burning words of truth. Thomas was not three years old when his father's death left the care of nine children to the mother alone. She was a woman of marked piety, who gave her family careful religious training in the Presbyterian Church. All of her children lived and died consistent Christians. Although Alexander Anderson and his wife were Presbyterians, they were not Calvinists, and their distinct theological views were naturally communicated to their children.

When Dr. Anderson was five years old he entered a neighborhood school, and, being an invalid during much of his boyhood, he enjoyed better scholastic advantages than most boys in the country at that time. Yet when health permitted he worked in the farming season, and went to school in winter. He was fond of reading, and often entertained his sisters and himself by reading aloud when confined within doors. He early acquired a considerable fund of useful information, to which he added largely as time passed on to old age. He attributed his first decided religious impressions to a sermon by Rev. Jas. McGready, which he heard in his sixth year; but he did not become a Christian until he was grown, although he never forgot the solemn impress of McGready's manner and words. He says that the preacher turned the palms of his hands toward the audience, raised his eyes toward heaven, and bean prayer by saying in awful tones, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!" One sentence of the sermon he ever remembered as part of the impassioned conclusion: "I would rather occupy the place of the backlog for a thousand years than to lie down in hell one hour."

Dr. Anderson tried in his early manhood to believe that the new birth was a delusion, that morality was all of religion. He was thoroughly convinced of his error by the distress and conversion of a cousin in whom he had strong confidence. His own return to Christ was through a protracted and bitter struggle, but he obtained clear light at length, and ever after was confident and joyous in hope. He always loved to dwell upon this period of his experience. He believed with great firmness in a profound work of grace in the human soul.

At an early age he became a successful teacher, having enjoyed the instruction of several fine, classical teachers, but did not pursue a collegiate course until he became a tutor in old Cumberland College at Princeton, Ky. Impressions to preach began to arise in his mind soon after his conversion, but, as he had an exalted view of the ministry, he sought to satisfy conscience by devotion to teaching. Health failed, and his mind was led to surrender objections and to promise God that he would obey the call of the Spirit. He spent much time in close study of the Bible and of theological works, and realized great peace of heart. Shortly after regaining his health, the Synod met in Gallatin, in 1830, and Dr. F. R. Cossitt, President of Cumberland College, attended. A tutor was needed in that institution, and, being recommended by Dr. Ring, his former teacher, Dr. Anderson was engaged for the place. Not being a graduate he was not appointed professor, but he performed all the duties of a professor, and Dr. Cossitt and he were for awhile the entire faculty. Earnestly pursuing his studies while teaching, he received his diploma, and was then made professor in the college. Continuing laboriously engaged in the professorship, he hesitated as to becoming a candidate for the ministry, but having related his experience to Presbytery, he was accepted and enrolled as such. He greatly feared that he had little prospect of much usefulness, owing to an humble view of his ability and adaptation to the work. He resigned his position in the college in the summer of 1832, and devoted himself to earnest service in meetings in Tennessee and Alabama until December, when he returned to Princeton and received licensure to preach. Returning to Nashville Presbytery he formed himself a circuit of twelve days through Davidson, Wilson, Sumner, and Smith counties. In his earliest labors in meetings he developed an unusual faculty for instructing anxious inquirers in the knowledge of Jesus, and he seems always to have possessed and well used this gift. It is a rare and most valuable grace of character. In regard to his work on the circuit Dr. Anderson says, for the encouragement of young preachers, "I have ever looked back to the five months spent on the circuit as the happiest period of my life. The circuit rider has his trials and frequent disappointments, but he has his sunny days and opening prospects, and, if he is faithful, he is conscious of doing a good work in a field that might otherwise remain uncultivated."

In 1833, Dr. Anderson was appointed by the General Assembly assistant editor of The Revivalist, Nashville, at that time our only Church paper, whose editor was the Rev. Jas. Smith, well known as the "Scotchman Smith," a man of decided ability. While engaged on the paper Dr. Anderson sought to do good in the city by holding prayer-meetings among people who did not attend church, two meetings each week, which resulted in about twenty conversions, at a time when there was no special interest in the churches. Ten months after his licensure he was ordained, and when Mr. Smith was absent from his pulpit in the city he occupied it, and also performed what pastoral duties he could. His life was thus full of labor. Mr. Smith's management of the affairs of the Revivalist was unsatisfactory, and Dr. Anderson, having become involved by endorsing for the concern, resolved to retire from the office to enter upon more congenial services as an evangelist. In 1835 he held many successful meetings in East Tennessee, associated with such men as Rev. Robert Tate. He had previously (in June, 1834) married Miss Asenath R. McMurry, of Wilson county, sister of Rev. John M. McMurry. In 1836, Rev. J. M. McMurry and he took a tour through Illinois and Missouri, holding many precious meetings in which numbers were converted. Later in the season he was associated with Rev. H. B. Hill and M. H. Bone in labors in Ohio. He was alone in holding meetings at Piqua and Covington, where he had no churches and only a few members. In the winter of 1836-7 he was again connected with the Church paper, but in the fall of 1837 he became principal of the Male Academy in Lebanon, Tenn., and often preached in neighborhoods around the town. This work resulted in the formation of the George Donnell church, west of Lebanon. In May, 1838, he became pastor of the church in Winchester, Tenn., and President of the Female Academy. This was his only pastorate, and he ever reverted to it as one of the brightest chapters in his history. He thought that few churches ever had such a body of ruling elders, of whom the leader was Judge Nathan Green, Sr. He preached in the forenoon and afternoon, and the elders held a prayer-meeting at night. There was a weekly prayer-meeting besides, and a woman's prayer-meeting, the last being to him a great blessing he said. The spiritual work in his church was one of deep, solid interest, some of the methods of which ought to be widely published. Revivals were not unfrequent and genuine, large blessings attending and following. For a while he held the position of principal of the Winchester Male Academy, but labored on in the pulpit and pastorate.

In the fall of 1842 he was offered a professorship in Cumberland University, at Lebanon, recently established by the Church, after the failure of old Cumberland College. His session and he agreed that he should accept, though parting with many regrets. The camp-meeting at Goshen came on a few days after this, and while earnestly laboring in the altar among mourners, he was suddenly prostrated with heart disease, which, it seems, had been growing for some time without his knowledge it. He was confined for weeks with little hope of recovery, but in December he was placed upon a bed in a carriage and taken to Lebanon. His strength increased gradually, but he did not enter upon his professional work until the fall of 1843, and then the sequel proved him physically unequal to the task. The trustees would not accept his resignation in April, 1844, but procured a substitute in the person of Prof. N. L. Lindsley. The faculty consisted of Dr. F. R. Cossitt, President; Rev. C. G. McPherson, Professor of Mathematics; Rev. T. C. Anderson, Professor of Ancient Languages; and N. Lawrence Lindsley, Professor of Modern Languages. In October, 1844, Dr. Anderson was still unable to perform the duties of professor, and Mr. Lindsley was elected to the chair on Dr. A's second resignation. Dr. Cossitt and Prof. McPherson shortly after resigned their positions, and the trustees at once elected Dr. Anderson president. He accepted with trembling heart, owing to his feeble condition and the pressing needs of the institution. He says of the matter, "Thus when I had thought myself free from further responsibility, and was busily maturing plans for a quiet, retired life, I found myself unexpectedly elevated to the presidency of an institution without funds, apparatus, library, or cabinet; an institution to which I knew the majority of the Church were looking as their last fond hope for an educated ministry. My position was embarrassing in the extreme. I would most gladly have shrunk from the responsibility, but the responsibility was laid upon me, and I resolved at once to devote the shattered remnant of life to the work assigned me."

This happy resolution was the key note to the future success of Cumberland University, and the stepping-stone toward the glorious results which have followed the success of that noble old institution of polite and sacred learning. Weak in health and greatly limited in resources, President Anderson was strong in faith, firm and clear in purpose, broad and liberal in views, fixed and resolute in will, and finely adapted in qualities of character and culture for the high and responsible station to which he was called. His administrative power was remarkable, as the experiement proved, and under his genial, paternal, and dignified, yet wise and steady exercise of authority, the institution soon assumed and ever maintained with increasing volume a tone of real life which gave it in a few years a commanding place among the great schools of the country. He had the fortunate faculty for creating due respect and inspiring sincere love in the hearts of the youth who flocked in enlarging numbers to the halls of the University. His insight into human nature was something very unusual. He read men's characters almost by intuition, and was rarely mistaken in his judgment. His common sense was a distinguishing characteristic in every department of life, and, as an adviser, he was without a superior. He knew how to stir the better elements in a boy's soul, and to develop the finer features of manhood. As a rule, if he could not reach and help a difficult case, it was useless for his associates to try. Yet he was not man of sternness of nature nor of egotism in opinions. He was ever approachable and open to reason on every question. He was the peer of any in the circle of the authorities, and was the father of every young man in the growing ranks of the students. The reverent fear of God blended beautifully in him with the tender love of man. His principles of life and duty were pure and high, and yet they were adorned by personal conduct which well befitted them. What could be the result of such a character as this but respect, love, and confidence on the part of men around him? These he enjoyed to a very large extent, and never lost them to the end of his career on earth. Eminent usefulness was the natural outgrowth of this fact, and the world is reaping a vast harvest of benefits from his beneficent labors and life.

Cumberland University was founded with primary views to the education of men for the Christian ministry, and from his first connection with it, Dr. Anderson regretted that probationers were receiving only a literary training, that no theological instruction was afforded them. He tried to get Dr. Cossitt to deliver a series of lectures, but the doctor declined to do so, and he resolved to endeavor to supply the want as far as he could himself. Having never been to a theological school, nor heard any lectures on theology, and as no one in our Church had attempted a course of such lectures as was needed, it was laying a new foundation and proposing to raise a new structure for him to enter upon the untried work. We had no distinctive text-books then, and our system of doctrines had never been fully reduced to a harmonious whole, outside of the Confession of Faith, unless Ewing's "Lectures" may be regarded by some as presenting such a thing. We had no general literature of biblical exposition, and private libraries were small and defective. But necessity called loudly, in spite of all disabilities, and President Anderson heeded the imperative cry. He writes: "The first of March, 1846, I commenced a course of lectures upon the organization of the apostolic Church, to a class of about twenty probationers for the ministry, then pursuing literary studies in the University." Again he says, in regard to his subjects that they embraced, "Preparation for the Pulpit, the Manner of Preaching, Pastoral Duties, Management of Revivals, Church Polity, Ecclesiastical History, and Expositions of Prophecy. The pastors of the church in Lebanon--at first, Rev. Robert Donnell, and subsequently, Rev. David Lowry--delivered lectures to the class upon Systematic Theology, and various practical subjects." In 1849, the subject of a theological school was discussed in the General Assembly, but no definite results were reached until 1852. Thus it becomes evident that President Anderson was the father of the theological school of our Church. Those of us who sat under his burning words for years, know what power there was in them, no matter what theme he treated. When he plead for a high order of culture in the ministry, or for its spiritual consecration and consuming devotion to its work, or for freedom and force in its methods of address, he would stir our hearts with peculiar fire, the fire of the Lord. Many successive classes of young men have gone forth into the world with the inspiration of his wise, warm, and weighty words glowing in their innermost spirits. The secret of this great fact is, that he had sanctified learning by the baptism of fire from on high, and he communicated knowledge out of a heart of heavenly love. From March, 1846, until June, 1861, when the horrid war broke forth upon our country, he continued his lectures to hundreds of probationers for the ministry, on a great variety of topics most pertinent and practical in the life of a preacher. Some of his expositions of prophecy, both in their devotional and evidential character, were marvelous for beauty, clearness, and force. So it might be said of every department of his investigations. He labored gratuitously in the service all this while, even after the theological school had been established, by the Assembly, in the University, and while Dr. Beard was pursuing his glorious course by his side as our great leader in the field of systematic theology.

In 1849, President Anderson was, by the death of his wife, left with a family of five children, two of whom were invalid boys. The writer of this sketch became an inmate of his family some years after, while all the children were yet living, and spent considerable time there while a student in the literary and theological departments of the University. It is one of the pure pleasures of life to bear testimony from the heart to the sweet reign of the Christian graces in that happy home. Never was there a father who combined more beautifully the commanding attributes of a noble manhood with the gentle virtues of a mother's heart. This may seem a singular statement, but in his dealings with his children, two of them being feeble and dependent, and the other three healthy and active, there was such a pleasing union of fatherliness and motherliness in him that, while he ever held the reins of a proper parental authority well in hand, he always shed the light and warmth of a tender love around so as to reap large returns of love. His home life was beautiful beyond almost everything of the kind I have ever known, for there were in it loving tenderness and unfailing sympathy, wise counsel and suggestive thought, so much of restraint as secured obedience and prudence, and so much of inspiration to action as worked happy results. Looking beyond the narrower bounds of family to the exercise of the same qualities of Christian life, and of the powers of a great teacher, I wonder where the limits of his influence must be in the vast circles of mind and heart and life which felt his formative and helpful hand through the successive years of his academic, collegiate, and university toils. Only at the infinite, I imagine, for the impulses set in motion must be widening and brightening toward the furthest shores.

President Anderson taught a private school during part of the war, and at its close, Dr. Beard and he re-opened the collegiate department, and thus set in motion again the vital forces of our Christian center of learning. He offered his resignation as president, thinking that a younger man would probably be more suitable for the changed conditions and grave necessities of the University, but the president of the Board of Trustees declined to receive it, saying that the prestige of his name would be of great value. Subsequently, he retired and was made secretary of the Board of Missions then located in Lebanon, which position he filled until the Assembly consolidated the three Boards and located the Board in St. Louis. Afterwards he taught one year in connection with Cumberland Female College, McMinnville, of which Col. D. M. Donnell was president. For years past, he was afflicted with loss of memory, but his mind was still clear and good. His old age was one of the most peaceful, beautiful, and contented scenes of declining life I have ever known, and it seems to my filial views of him now that his whole life pointed to heaven and led the way. Daily duty was consecrated by the very spirit of piety, and little actions of commonplace were dignified by doing them well. No person was beneath his notice, and no man was too grand to find in him a peer. Other men may be honored by the respect which they inspired, or be noted by the magnetism which they possessed, but he will be remembered and his name cherished by the love which he created and strengthened to the last. "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace."

In concluding, a few lines should be given to President Anderson's work as a writer. He may have published something earlier than anything of which I am aware, but in November, 1853, he began to appear in the Theological Medium, our Church quarterly, as a writer of able historic articles, the first two being on "Babylon and its Doom." "Ruins of Nineveh, and Prophecy;" "The Oldest Living City," "The Religion of the Antediluvians," "Jerusalem and the Jews," etc., followed in the course of a few years. Some valuable papers were published on "Preparation for the Pulpit," "Delivery of Sermons," and "The Calls of God." In 1858, there appeared a short "History of Cumberland University," which is full of facts and dates. There are two productions of his pen of which I now make special mention. The first is the "Origin of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church," which was published in two articles in the Quarterly of 1859. In the fifty-two octavo pages of this sketch of our Church's "Origin," is to be found, in my judgment, the best piece of philosophic history which a Cumberland Presbyterian pen has produced. Has any pen surpassed it in this respect? This sketch ought to be republished and largely circulated. The second work alluded to is "The Life of Rev. George Donnell," of which candor leads me to record that, as a simple biography, a personal history of one man, it has no equal in our literature. George Donnell was not an actor in the earlier scenes of our Church's history, and therefore the accessories to his distinction among men were not like those of Ewing and Robert Donnell, but his life was a charming one, as related by the facile pen of President Anderson. Besides the published productions of his thought there are valuable manuscripts which ought not to be lost to the Church.

After a lingering feebleness of many months, beginning last fall, President Anderson fell asleep in Jesus, with the quiet and ease of ordinary rest, on Feb. 3, 1882. Thus heaven has added to its rich treasures which it is constantly gaining from the trophies of grace of earth. With deep and tender feeling he was laid away, and with such confidence in the Saviour whom he loved as to say, with Whittier:

"Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through the cypress threes;
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play;
Who hath not learned in hours of faith
  The truth to flesh and sense unknown,
That life is ever lord of death,
  And love can never lose its own."

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, June 1, 1882, pages 2-3]