Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-02
Take Heed to Yourselves
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE BAG.
CALAUREATE SERMON AT HAIR.
DIN COLLEGE CHAPEL
YESTERDAY.
A Grand Audience Listens TO a Grand
Sermon-Pure Thoughts Abound
In Every Sentenee-Listened
to by Over 1,500 Hearers.

Over 1900 people went to Hardin
College yesterday morning to hear
the Baccalaureate sermon by Rev.
Armstrong. The seating capacity
of the chapel is 400, but many
were unable to be seated. Never in
the history of Mexico has such a
magnificent audience assembled.
probably due to the fact, as Prof.
Yancey says, that "'Rev. Armstrong
is loved by everyone in the commu-
nifty who have had the honor of his
acquaintance, having been pastor of
the Baptist church in this city a few
years since" His ability as a min
lister is far beyond the average, and
his thoughts met with the approba-
ton of all who heard him.
The services opened with the
familiar hymn, "Praise God from
Whom all Blessings Flow, followed
by a prayer by Rev. Taylor. After
Rev. Mumpower read a chapter
from the Bible, Rev. Rogers an
nounced a hymn, which was sung
by the choir. Rev. Middleton offer
ed a beautiful prayer, at the close
of which Miss Stevens sang a solo.
Prof. Yaneey introduced Rev. Arm
strong and he talked to the assem-
bled audience in a most brilliant
manner. His text was taken from
Luke 21-34 "Take Heed to Your
selves"
"Not long ago." said the orator,
81 stood before a show window and
saw a man repair adamaged watch.
He looked through a powerful glass
that the gossamer-like machine ex-
banded into large proportions and
the smallest particles of dust were
brushed away with silken touch of
downy brush and beneath it was
spread a spotless sheet of paper that
no minute piece could be lost by
falling on a dull back ground.
Easily falling into the homiletic
habit of the preacher | moralized.
A human being is like a watch.
The watch is made to keep accurate
time, not for mere show. Whether
its works lie in acase which sparkles
with gems or whether they be shut
up in brass coverings, it does not
change the regularity with which
the moments are hammered out into
eternity. You feel a righteous con-
tempt for the fop whose pride Graves
a watch that his poverty cannot buy
and stuffs his pocket with a gaudy
dumb watch. You see my meaning.
The most perfect fits which you ever
beheld are those which adorn the
windows of clothiers and dressmak-
ers. If you have not a splendid
opportunity for polishing up or if
nature has denied you good looks,
| which makes women proud and men
| captives, remember that the world
| in it's final estimate of us will test
your life and not your looks. There
is an opening for every poor boy or
girl in this age to rise to the highest
point of polish and usefulness. I
used to have a pretty fair watch
| under certain circumstances. If you
would lay it down on its side, it
would not turn a wheel. It re-
minded me of a man who will do
passably well when pampered and
petted and pleased, but who are not
worth a farthing when these artificial
helps are removed. They have to
be petted and pleased. Suffer me
to forget the words of my text a lit
tie further. Even a good watch gets
out of order at times. The con-
struction is faulty or the material
poor or it has suffered injury from
without. A little grain of dust too
fine to be seen with the eye slips in
while its very littleness gives it
power to work harm. You guard
your watch against brick bats and
brooms but you are powerless to
keep out specks and moats. These
little sins, as we measure sins, are
the ones which ruin character and
spoil life's highest, hottest influences.
There is no remedy but to turn
about and magnify the power of true
!. principles, the searching and en-
larging light of divine truth into
such a heart for the revelation of the
cause of breaking down. One step
further in this comparison. They
say you cannot go close to adynamo
/, without disturbing the movements
of these nicely adjusted wheels upon
+ which the work of your watch de-
ponds. There is a mysterious in
. fuence that demoralizes order and
regularity.B If you think that you
can go into bad company and moi
be hurt, that you can shut up YOU
well meaning heart against all un'
i, holy influences from without, | bes
you to remember the peril of YOU
watch. The inner heart is no
u proof against contamination.
"Take heed to yourselves
} There is a very common and mis-
. taken idea that success and happi