News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-18
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. TALMAGES
STERLING DISCOURSES.
Subject The Three Greatest Things
To Do.

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God ShoV be strong, and do erpioitS." -
Daniel XII, -
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner, cam
down three times with his army to desolat
the Jews, advancing one time with hun
dred and two trained elephants swingin
their trunks this way and that and sixty
TWO thousand infantry, and six thousan
cavalry troops, and they were driven bach
linen the second time he advanced with sev
enty thousand armed men and had been agai
defeated. But the third time he laid success
1ul siege until the navy of Rome came in wit
the flash of their long banks of oars an
demanded that the siege be lifted AM
Antiochus Epiphanes said he wanted tim
10 consult with his friends about it, and Popi
Illus, one of the Roman ambassadors took
stah and made circle on the ground arount
Ant1ochus Epiphanes, and compelled him t,
decide be ore he came out of that circle
wherepon he Ii ted the siege. Some of tn
Jews had submitted to the invader but soms
OF them resisted valorouSly, as did EeaZer
when he had swine's flesh forced into his
mouth, spit it out, although he knew he mus
die Tor II, and did die for it, and others, a:
my text SAYS. were enabled to do exploits
An exploit l would define to be a heroic
act. brave feat, a great achievement.
We'll" YOU say, Il admire such things but
there is no chance for me: mine is a sort OF
humdrum life. If | had,an Antiochus Epiph-
anes to fight | also could do exploits" You
are right SO far as greet wars are concerned.
There will probably be no opportunity to dis
tingu;sh yourself in battle. The most
OF the igadier-generals of this country
won d never have been heard of had
1t not been for the war. General
Grant would have remained in tbs
useful work OF tanning hides at Galena, and
Stnnewall jackson would have continued the
quiet college professor in Virginia. And
whatever military talents you have will
probably lie dormant forever. Neither will
Yen probably become a great inventor
Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out of
every two thousand inventions found in the
patent office at Washington never Welded
their authors enough money to pay for the
expenses of securing the patent. So you will
probably never be a Morse or an Edi.
son, or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli
Whitney. There IS not much probability
that you viii be the one out of the hundred
that achieves extraordinary success in com
merclal or legal or medical or literary
spheres. What then! Can YOU have no op-
portunity to do exploitsl / am going to
show you to-day that there are three oppor-
tunities open that are grand, thrilling far
reaching, stupendOus and overwhelming
They are before you now. In one. if not all
three OF them, You may do exploits. The
three greatest things on earth to do are to
save man, or save woman, or save a
child.
During the course of his life almost every
man gets into an exigency, is caught between
two fires, is ground between two miIlstones
sits on the edge of some precipice or in some
other way comes near demolition. 1t may be
a financial, or a moral. or a domestic or a
social. or 4 political eXigency. You some
times see it in court rooms. A young man
has got into bad company and he has Offended
the law, and he is arraigned. All blush
ing and confused he is in the pres
ence OF judge and jury and lawyers.
He can be sent right on in the
wrong direction He is feeling disgraced,
and he is almost desperate. Let the District
Atto&pey overhaul him as though he were an
old offender; let the ablest attorneys at the
bar refuse to say word for him because he
cannot afford a considerable fee; let TIE
judge give no opportunity for presenting the
mitigating circumstances, hurry up the case
and hustle him up to Auburn or Sing Sing.
If he live seventy years for seventy years he
will be a criminal and each decade
of his life will be blacker than
its predecessor. In the interreg-
NUNS of prison life he can get no
work and he is glad to break window glass,
or blow up a safe, or play the high wayman,
SO as to get back again within the walls
where he can get something to eat and hide
himself from the cruel gaze of the world.
Why don't his father come and help him.
His father is dead. Why don't his mother
GENE and help himi She is dead. Where
are all the ameliorating and salutary in
fiuenees of society They do not touch
him. Why did not some one long
ago in the case understand that
there was an opportunity for the exploit
which would be famous in heaven quadrill-
ion of years after the earth has become
scattered ashes in the last whirlwindl Why
did not the District Attorney take that young
man into his private Office and say: my |
son, sec that you are the victim of circum- |
stances. This is your first crime. You are /,
sorry. l will bring the person you |
wronged into your presence and you |
-fp apologize and make all the |
PREPARATION YOU can, and | will give /
you an thor chance Or the young man is |
presented IN th@-eetsrs FoeFFl# and he has no J
your counselF' And he saws: Il have none"
And the judge says: who will take this |
young mans CaseF' And there is a dead I
halt and no one offers, and after while the
Judge turns to some attorney who never had
a good case in all his life and never will. AMI |
whose advocacy would be enough |
10 secure the condemnation of inno-
sence Itself And the professional
Incompetent crawlS up beside the prisoner,
lelpleSSneSs to rescue despair, when there
Jdg1G to be a struggle among all the best
men of the profession as to who should have
he honor of trying to help that unfortunate.
How much would such an attorney have re
-eived his fee for such an advocacy! /
Nothing in dollars. but much every way in /
happy consciousness that would make his /
OWN life brighter and his own dying pillow /
,weeter and his own heaven happitr-the /
that he had saved mani
So there are commercial eXigencies. A |
very late spring Obliterates the demand for |
spring overcoats and spring hats and Spring /
apparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands
IF people say: 1T seems are going 10 .
have no spring and we shall go straight out .
IF winter into warm weather, AMI we can
get along without the usu ring attire |
Or there is no autumn " ..l.lvr, the beat |
Dlunging into the cod, and the usual cloth
ing, which is compromise between sum.
mer and winter, is not required. II /
makes a difference in the sale OF |
millions and millions of dollars of goods, and .
some over-sanguine young merchant is
caught with a vast amount of unstable |
goods that never will be salabe again ex-
cept at prices ruinously reduced. That
Young merchant with a somewhat limited !
capital is in predicament. What shall the
Did merchants do as they see that young man /
in this awful crisis' Rub their hands
might nave known better. When he has |
been in business as long as we have, he .
will not LOAD his she yes in that way. Hal .
Hal He will burst up before long. He had .
no business to open his store so near to ours |
anyhow" Sheriffs sale. Red flag in the
window: How much is bid for these out
Of the-fashion spring overcoats and spring
hats or fall clothing out of date: What do .
hear in the way of bldg" -Four dollars"
Absurd, | cannot take that bid of four dol
airs Why,thes coats when first put upon the
ind now l am offered only four dollars. Is
hat all? Five dollars do l hear? Going at
hat! Gone at five dollars and he takes the
whole lot. The young merchant goes home
hat night and says TO his wife: well, Mary,
We will have to move out of this house and
ell our piano That old merchant that has
lad an evfeye on me ever since l started
las bought out all the clothing and he will
ave 1t rejuvenated, and next year put it on
he market as new, while we will do well if we
r. Al L q m
'roken- spirited, goes to hard drinking. The
-Oung wife with her baby goes to her fathers
louise, and not only is his store wiped out, /
'ut his home, his morals. and his prospects
or two worlds, this and the next. And
lewis make banquet of fire and fill their
ups of gall and drink deep to the health of
Re Old merchant who swallowed up the
-oung merchant who got stuck on spring
foods and went down. That is one way and
ONE of you have tried it.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu-
ated in laying in too many goods of one
ind and been flung of the unusual season,
5 standing behind the counter feeling very
'lue and biting his finger nails or looking
'ver his account books which read darker !
hem, and thinks how his young wife
will have to be put in a palmer houss
han she everl expected To live in,
r go to a third-rate clearinghouse where
hey nave SOu9h liver and sour bread five
mornings out of the seven. An old merchant
ONES in and says: well. Joe, this has been
hard season for young merchants, and this
prolonged cool weather has put many in the
oldrums and have been thinking of Won a
.ood deal IF late, for just after I started
n business l once got into the
anne scrape Now if there is
nything l can do to help you out l
will gladly do it. Better Just put those goods
ut or sight for the present and next season
We will plan something about them. 1 will
I'm 10 Il Co.