Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-14
TABERNACLE SERVICES.
REV. r. De WITT TALMAGE'S DIS.
COURSE LAST SUNDAY MORNING.
The Three Creates Things to Do-Almosi
Every Man and Woman Is Some Time
Near neutrality-suspicious. for Ell
pioits.

Every MAN and woman Is some Time
Near neutrality-suspicious. for Ell
pioits.
BROOKLYN, Oct. o. Although no
building has been large enough TO hold
the audiences attracted by the Rev. I.
De Witt Talmage, ID. d., in any part Of
this country or Great Britain for the last
twenty years, the throngs in and around
the Brooklyn Tabernacle seem TO be in
creasing as the years go by. The open
ing hymns this morning were heartily
srrg by the congregation. DR.. Talmage
9. e for his subject: 1.-The Three Great
% Things to Do" His text was Daniel
2: THE 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 ele-
plants, swinging their trunks this way
and that, and sixty-two thousand in
fantry and six thousand cavalry troops,
and they were driven hack. Then the
second time H. advanced with seventy
thousand armed men and had been again
defeated. But the third time he laid
successful siege until the navy of Rome
came in with the flash Of their
long banks of oars and demanded
that the siege be lifted. And Anti
ochus Epiphanes said he wanted time
10 consult with his friends about il, and
Popilius, one Of the Roman ambassadors,
took a staff and made "A circle on the
ground around Antiochus Epiphanes and
compelled him 10 decide before he cam
u Of that circle, whereupon he lifted
the siege, Some of he Jews had sub
mitted to the invader but some of them
resisted vigorously, as did Eleazer, when
he had swine's ile,h forced into his
mouth, spit it out, although he knew he
must die for it, and did die for it, and
Others. as my text says, were enabled to
do exploits.
An exploit | would define TO be a
heroic act, a brave feat, a great achieve.
ment. well" you say, IL admire such
things, but there is no chance for me;
mine is a sort Of a humdrum life. If |
had an Antiochus E~piphanes TO fight | also
could 10 exploits" You are right 80 far
as great wars are concerned. There viii
probably be no opportunity TO distinguish
yourself in battle. The most of the brig
adler generals in this country would
never have been heard of had it not
beer for the war. General Grant would
have remained in the useful work of tan
ming hides at Galena, and Stonewall
IactSap t-oY,I1 have continued thu o,iat
college professor in Virginia. And what
ever military talents you have will prob
ably lie dormant forever. Neither will
YOU probably become a great inventor.
Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out of
every two thousand inventions found in
the patent Office at Washington never
yielded their authors enough money to
pay for the expenses of securing the
patent. So you will probably never be a
Morse or an Edison, or a Humphrey
Davy or an Eli Whitney. There 10 not
much probability that you will be
the one out Of the hundred that
achieves extraordinary success in COM
mercial or legal or medical or literary
spheres. WHAT then? Can you have no
opp. tunity TO do exploits! am going
10 show you today that there are three
opportunities open that are grand, thrill
ing, lar reaching, stupendous and over
whe,ming. They are before you now.
In cae, if not all three of them, you may
do exploits. The three greatest things
on earth to do are TO save a man, or save
a 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 be-
tween two millstones. sits on the edge Of
some precipice, or in some other way
ome near demolition. IL may he a
financial or a moral or a domestic or a
social or a political exigency. You some
times see il in court rooms. A young
man has got into bad company and he
has offended the law, and he is arraigned.
AL blushing and confused, he is in the
presence OF judge and jury and lawyers.
He can be sent right on in the wrong
direction. Hell feeling disgraced. and he
is almost desperate. Let the district at
torney overhaul him as though he were
an old offender, let the ablest attorneys
at the bar refuse TO say a word for him
because he cannot afford a considerable
fee. let the judge give no opportunity for
presenting the mitigating circumstances,
hurry up the case and hustle him up 10
Auburn or Sing Sing. II he live seventy
years, for seventy years he will he Q
criminal, and each decade of his life will
be blacker than its predecessor. In The
i%nterregnums of prison life he can gel
no work, and he is glad e
break a window glass or blow
up safe, or play the ~highwayman, 90 as
10 get back again within the walls where
he can get something 10 eat and hide
himself from the cruel gaze Of the world.
Why don't his father come and help himi
His father il dead. Why don't his mother
come and help himl She is dead. Where
are all the a~meliorating and s%alutary in.
fiuences of society," They do not touch
him. WhS did not some one long age
In the case understand that there was an
opportunity for the exploit which would
be famous in heaven a quadrillion OF year
after the earth has become scattered
ashes In the last whiTlwindl Why die
not the district attorney take that young
mar into his private Office and say: my
NON I see that Won are the victim of cir.