New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-17
THE THINGS TO DO.
DIR. Ta1mage Speaks on the Three
Greatest of These Things.
The Troubles Into Which Women Fall
---Lend Them a Helping Hand.

Talmage, D. d., in any part of this country
or Great Britain, for the last 20 years, the
throngs in and around the immense audience
room of Brooklyn Tabernacle seem to be in
ereasing as the years go by The opening
hymns this morning were heartily sung by
the congregation. DR.. Talmage chose for his
subject: seThe Three Greatest Things to Do.'
His text was Daniel xi. 80: ssThe people that
do know their God shall be strong, and do
exploits" Following is the sermon:
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner, came
down three times with his army to desolate
the Jews, advancing one time with a hundred
and two trained elephants swinging their
trunks this way and that, and $4,000
infantry and 5000 cavalry troops, and they
were driven back. Then the second time he
advanced with $4,000 armed men and had
been again defeated. But the third time he
laid successful siege until the navy of Rome
came in with the fash of their long banks of
oars and demanded that the siege be lifted
And Antiochus Epiphanes said he wanted
time to consult with his friends about it,
and Popilius, one of the Roman cmbassa-
doris, took q staff and made circle on the
ground around Antiochus Epiphanes and
compelled him to decide before he came out
of that circle, whereupon he lifted the siege
Some Of the Jews had submitted to the in
vader, but some OF them resisted valorously,
as did Eleazer when he had swine's flesh
forced into his mouth, spit it out, although
he knew he must die for it, and others, as
my text says, were enabled to do exploits.
An exploit [ would define to be heroic
act, brave feat, a great achievement.
oil won EHE o1 mob tpi, 1,,,+
there is no chance for me- mine is a sort of
a humdrum life. If / had on Antiochus Epi-
phanes to fight | could also do exploits"
You are right SO far as great wars are con-
cerned. There will probably be no opportu-
nifty to distinguish yourself in battle. The
most of the brigadier- generals of this coun-
try would never have been heard of had it
not been for the war. Gen. Grant would
have remained in the useful work of tanning
hides at Galeno and Stonewall jackson
would have continued the quiet college pro-
lessor in Virginia And whatever military
talents you have will probably lie dormant
forever. Neither will you probably become a
great inventor. Nineteen hundred and nine
ty-nine out of every two thousand inventions
found in the patent Office at Washington
never yielded their authors enough money to
pay for the expense of securing the patent.
So you will probably never be Morse, or an
Edison, or a Humphrey Davy, Or an Eli
Whitney. There is not much probability
that you will be the one out of the hundred
that achieves extraordinary success in COM
mercial or legal ormedical orliterary spheres.
What then? Can you have no
opportunity to do exploits? I am
going to show you to-day, that there are
three opportunities open that are grand,
thrilling, far-reaching, stupendous and over
whelming. They are before you now. In one,
If not all three of Them you may do exploits.
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save man, or to save a woman, OF save
child.
During the course of his life almost every
man gets into an exigency, is caught between
two fires, is ground between two millstones,
sits ON the edge of some precipice, or in some
other way comes near demolition. 1t may
be financial, or moral, or domestic, or a
political exigency. You sometimes see it in
court rooms. A young man has got into
bad company and he has offended the law
and he is arraigned. All blushing and con-
fused he is in the presence of judge and jury
and lawyers. He can be sent right on in the
wrong direction. Heis feeling disgraced, and
he is almost desperate. Let the direct at
torney overhaul him as though he was an
old offender, let the ablest attorneys at the
bar refuse to say q word for him because he
cannot afford a considerable fee, let the Judge
give no opportunity for presenting the miti-
eating circumstances, hurry up the case
and hustle him up to Auburn or Sing
Sing. If he lives 70 years, for 70 years
he will be a criminal, and each decade of his
life will be blacker than it's predecessor. In
che interregnums of prison life he can get no
work, and ne is glad obreak window glass
or blow up safe, or play the highwayman
SO as to get back again within the walls
where he can getsomething to eat and hide
himself from the cruel gaze of the world
Why don't his father come and help him?
lis foil npso I,
come and help him? She is dead Where
are all the ameliorating and salutary in
:huences of society? They do not touch him.
Why did not someone long ago in the case
understand that there was an opportunity
for the exploit which would be famous
in heaven a quadrillion of years after
the earth has become scattered ashes in the
last whirlwind? Why did not the district
attorney take that young man into his
private office and say: "My son, I see that
you are the victim of circumstances This is
your first crime. You are sorry. will bring
the person you wronged into your presence,
and you will apologize and make all the
PREPARATION you can, and | will give you an
other chance" Or that young man is pre-
scented IN the court room, and he has no
friends present, and the Judge says: "Who
is your counsel?" And he answers: 81 have
none" And the judge says: 'Who will take
this young mans case?" And there is a dead
malt, and no one offers, and after while the
Judge turns to some attorney who never had
good case in all his lie and never will, and
whose advocacy would be enough to secure the
condemnation Of innocence ITSELF And the
professional incompetent crawls up behind
the performer, helplessness to rescue despair
when there ought to be struggle among the
best men of the profession as to who should
have the honor of trying to help the unfor-
tunate How much would such an attorney
have received as his fee for such an advo-
.cacy? Nothing in dollars, but much every
way IN happy consciousness that would make
his own life brighter and his own dying pill
aow sweeter and his own heaven happier
she consciousness that he saved man!
SO there are commercial exigencies. A
very late spring obliterates the demand for
spring oyercoats and spring hats and spring
apparel of all sorts. Hundreds ofthousands
OF people say: st seems that we are going
to haveno spring and weshal,go straight out
of winter into warm weather, and we can
get along without the usual spring attire -
Or there is no autumn weather. the heat
plunging into the cold, and the usual cloth.
ing, which is a compromise between summer
and winter, is not required. 1t makes differ
ence in the sale of millions ofdollars ofgoods,
and some over-sanguine young merchant
is caught with a vast amount OF unstable
goods that never will be saable again ex-
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