The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-05-22
BACCALAUREAIE SERMON
DR.. TINoALL breaches ANNUAL
SERMON TO GRADUATES.
SPLENDID MAY MORNING

Methodist Church is Crowded for the
Annual Class Sermon-Hieh School
Faculty and Class Attend In Body.
Special Music a Feature.
Commencement week opened with
a bright sunlit May Sunday morning,
the occasion of the baccalaureate ser
mon delivered to the graduating class
of the high school by DR.. ID. X. Tin.
dali. The Methodist church was
crowded for the service.
The members of the graduating
class and the members of the high
school faculty who were in the city
attended the services in u body.
There was special music for the
class service A solo was sung by
Mrs. Mohler of Wayne.
Or. Tindall's Address.
DR.. Tindal's sermon was an effec-
tive address and was closely followed
by all present.
Finding his text in | Thes. 5:23, Mr.
Tindall said in part: MY theme is IA
Wholly Sanctifed Life Sanctfication
implies two things, holiness and con.
secration, purity and service. In
sanctiflcation we are saved from sin
and consecrated to the service of
God. The vessels which Nebuchad-
uezer took from the holy temple
when he destroyed Jerusalem were
sanctified vessels-they were clean
and used only for the temple service
When one is sanctfied by Gods grace
one is made clean from sin and set
apart to the service of the Lord.
The whole person must be sancti-
fed to God; Paul prays for the sancti
fication of the body. How important
is the body? 1t is the instrument of
the soul. Great men have usually had
well and strong bodies. This is true
of statesmen and clergymen. The
body must be eveloped-educated
There are various exercises condu
Give to this. Some choose foot ball,
but | regard this game as too danger
Gus and mutilating to the body. Others
prefer base ball. There is splendid
development derived from this game,
but let it be played in week time and
not on Sunday The gymnasium is
helpful if not carried to extreme. But
may | say that there is no symmet-
rical development for the body like
that formed on the farm, where every
muscle and tendon is brought into
requisitiOn; and nothing is much
more safe or lucrative as an avocation
Let not the boys despise the farm
For girls, while skating and basket
ball and other outdoor exercises may
be well, perhaps nothing will tend to
health and symmetrical development
of limb, body and form, more than
house keGping-than sweeping, cook
ing, washing dishes. To be able to
preside over both kitchen and draw
ing room, to cook a good meal as well
as entertain on the piano, are accom-
plishments not to be turned down by
our girls.
The body must be kept sacred. 1t
is declared by the scriptures to be
the temple of the Holy Ghost The
bodies of boys should be kept as holy
and sacred as those of the girls. One
moral law is binding equally on both.
| expect the same chastity from my
boy as from my girl, and so should
the community expect the same. All
the sacred relations of parents and
children, sisters and brothers are
based in the body. Keep yourselves
pure from all manner of evil. But the
body is only a part of man; he has
soul. Man is more than matter or
instinct, he is mind. If others wish
to go to geological garden for their
ancestry, they may, | prefer going to
the garden of Eden. The mind is the
standard of the man, as Isaac Watts
is said to have remarked. The great
est mind in the world distances all
the great rolling rivers, towering
mountains and sublime seas. 1t is
like Cod and can think his thoughts
after him. The mind can and must
be developed, educated What de-
velopment there is in a lump of iron
one from the time it is taken from the
mine until we see it in the form of
hair springs in a watch. 1t is then
educated. Behold the development of
cotton from the time it leaves the bur
until it is woven as a beautiful dress.
Or, the wool on sleeps back from
the time it is shorn until it is seen
as a handsome suit of clothes. Tim
Der, from the time it stands in the
forest until it is seen in handsome
piano cases. How marvellous the de-
velopment of the mind of that boy
from the time he begins to learn the
alphabet until we behold him an as
trOnomer analyzing the stars. Man
is fearfully and wonderfully made, and
the mind is a great thing. Take
memory. In that hall you boys and
girls who graduate from our high
school this week have been hanging
pictures for years. | trust you have
placed no evil scenes there. You have
hanging in the hall of memory this
morning your school days in Norfolk
the beautiful school building; also