Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-20
THE THINGS TO DO
Rev. DR.. Talmage Tells Of
These Greatest Things
to Do.
lHclr the Distressed, Yurn ffolu
Xvii Ways and Save the
ChiiGTeD.


audiences attracted !, he Rev. I. De
Witt Talmagc, -. D., IA any part OF this
country or Great Britain for the last
twcntt years, the ,hrones in and around
thc i my1sc aldiclcc room Of Brooklyn
TabcrAaclr seem 10 DE increasing as he
years 40 by. The opening hymns his
moluilg were heartily sung by the con
grcgation. DR.. Talmage chose for his
subject The Three Greatest Thugs to
Do Ills text was Daniel XII, 80:
Tao people that DO Know their Goa shall
Dt strong and 40 exploits"
Following IS the sermon:
An;iochus Epiphanes, the Old sinner,
came down three times with his army TO
drso'a.n the Jews, advancing one time
with a hundred and two trained elephants
swingin. 'hcir tWul,a this way and that,
and OK infantry, and 5000 cavalry
troops. and they were driven back. Then
tie second time he advanced with 20, coo
armed mon, and had been again defeated.
Rul tie thir1timc hc laid successful siege
anil the navy Of Rome came n with the
1iaeh &C their long banks Of oars and de-
rian! Il that the siege be lifted. Ard
Autiortt.a E"piphaBc5 said he wAn;cdtine
20 consult with his fricnCs about it, and
pnpl.lu9. one OF he Roman ambassadors,
took q sta.l and made Il circle On the
ground around AniioChus Epiphanes and
COMPELLED him Go decide before he came
out o. Jba: circle, whcrcup0n he lifted
thu siege. Some Of the Jews had sub
mit,cG q he invader, but some " them
resisted vnlor0usly, as did ElcAzcr, when
ne had So ines flesh forced into bis
mouth. spit il ont. although he knew be
nrist die for 1t, and did de for il, and
others. rs my text says, ware enabled TO
90 aSpioits.
GREAT EXPLOITS.
An Exploit j would define TO be aheroic
a., Il brave feat, a great achievement.
''}Ye'i,' YOU say, Il admire such things,
but there is no chance for me; mine is 9
sort of Aumdum lie. If had an An
tiochus Epiphanos 10 fight | also could do
exploits" You are right so far as great
wars are concerned. There will probably
ha no opportunity to distinguish yourself
in battle. The most Of the biigadier gen
erals o. this country would never have
been heard Of had il not been for the
war. Gen. Grant would have remained
N he uecful work Of tanning hides at
(;alena and Stoncwall Jackson would
haze continued the quiet college pro.
{.5sor in Virginia And whatever military
talents YOU have viii probably lie dor
mant forever. Neither will you probably
become a great Inventor. Nineteen hun
drcd and ninety-ni III out Of every 1000
INVENTIONS found in the patent office at
WASHINGTON never yielded their authors
enough money to Jay for the expenses of
securing the patent. SO YOU will prob
ally never be a Morse or an Edison, OF a
IIumplrry Davy or an Eli Whitney.
There i rot much probability that you
WIN he the one out Of the hundred that
achieves extraordinary success in ON
marcial or legal or medical or literary
spheres. What then? Con You have no
opportunity to do exploits? | am going
10 show Won today that there are three
opportunities open that are grand, thrill
ing. far reaching, stupendous and over
WIDENING. They are before you now
IN enc. II not al three Ct them, you may
DO exploits. The three greatest things on
earth 10 do are TO save a man, or save a
IN or save n child.
THE CRISIS IL EVERY MAN'sLlFE.
During the course OF his life almost
every man gets into an exigencN is
caught between two fires, IS ground be
tween two millstOnCs. sits On the edge Of
some precipice, or IN some other way
concs near demolition. It may be IA
financial. or q moral, or a domestic, on a
social. or a political e%Xigency. VOW some
times see il in court ooms. A young
man las got into bad company and he
has offended the law, auG he isarraigned.
All blushing and confused he is in the
presence Of Judge and jury and lawyers.
He can DC sent right on in the wrong
direction. lie is feeling diseraccd. and
nc il almost desperate. Let the district
attorney overhaul him as though he were
"A on offender, let the ahlest attorneys at
the har rotie2 10 say word for him be.
caua bc raGaot afford a considerable Zee.
lc, the ipIsa give M opportunity for pre-
scnting ne mitigating circumstances.
h1rn az the case and hustle him up TO
Auburn o. Sing Sing. Ifhc i've seventy
vcars. for seventy years he viii be Il
rriminal. and each decade of his life
vii ~ biacbcr than lis predecessor, In
She i~o.erregnums of prison life be can get
no N0y&. and he g glad to break a
winIpT. glass. or blow UP a safe. or play
The aighwaymau, SO rs 70 get back again
within the walls where be cen get some
thing 10 est and hide himself from the
rrucl Gaze Of TIE wOlld. Why don't his
father came and hGip him? His father is
deed? WY don't his mother come and
hc}n HIM She is dead. Where are all
thc amc..cradGc and s~aiut9ry influences
Of society they DO not touch him. Why
did not some one long z in the case
understand that there was an opportunity
for the exploit which would he famous III
heaven a qIaGrillion OF years after the
earth las become scattered ashes in the
ast wbirlTind? Why did not the dis
trict attorney take that young man into
his private office and say: My son, !
sec shat you are the victim Of circum-
stances. This is your first crime. You
arc sorry. viii bring the person you
wrongeG into your presence and you will
a~uolOgi7e ana make all the reparaiion
YOU can. and ! will give you another
cho2cn." Or that young man is pre-
sen:ed in the
ROOM
aud he has no friends present, and the
Judge says; 'Who is your cOunsel?'
And he answers: II have none" And
thc Judge says: Who will take this
Young mans CASE" And there is dead
halt and no one offers, and after a while