Father's House
>> Monday, October 29, 2012
Pryor Institute: 1887-1910
Marion County High School: 1910-1967
Jasper, Tennessee
In the late 1880s, Washington and
Jackson Pryor, along with A. L. Spears, gave land and money to construct Pryor
Institute. The story’s told that the Pryor family built this local college so
that their children could be educated close to home. In 1910, the Marion County
High School Commission purchased the building from the trustees of the Pryor
Institute and established the county’s first public high school. Unfortunately,
in 1967, the beautiful landmark was torn down. (After graduating from Marion
County High School in 1916, my grandmother received her first teaching
assignment: a one-room, eight grade schoolhouse nestled in those picturesque
mountains of east Tennessee.)
In John 14:2-3, Jesus told His
disciples, “In My Father’s house are many
dwelling places…for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am,
there you may be also (forever).”
“For
we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven” (2 Cor.
5:1).
“For
the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore, comfort one another with these words” (1 Thess. 4:16-18).
Come and go with me to my Father's
house.
It's a big, big house with lots and lots
of room.
A big, big table with lots and lots of
food.
A big, big yard where we can play
football.
A big, big house, it's my Father's
house.1
1 “My Father’s
House” by Newsboys
(Grandmother’s
story is retold in The Schoolhouse;
available online at Amazon.com)
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