The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-10-17
MANS GREATEST EXPLOITS.
DIR. TALMAGE TELLS HOW ALL MEN
MAY BECOME REKOES.

DIR. TALMAGE TELLS how ALL ME-,
MAY BECOME REROES.
They May Not be Great Generals, or States
men, or Inventors, but They May Save
Man or . Woman or aChild-The Terrible
Perils of Friendless Girls.
The congregation that attends tn
Brooklyn Tabernacle turned out in large
numbers Sunday to hear the sermon O.
the Rev. DR.. Talmage. He chose fo'
his subject: ssThe three greatest things
to do" His text was Daniel II. 80
''The people that do know their Coo
shat be strong, and do exploits
Having spoken of the wars entered
into in past ages by Antiochus Epi,
phanes against the Jews, and the stout
resistance of the latter and their many
great exploits, he went on to explain
what an exploit was.
can exploit, he said, ''would define
to be heroic act, brave feat, 8 great
achievement. Well you say, 4 ad,
mire such things, but there is no chance
for me; mine is a sort of humdrum life.
If I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to
fight, T also could do exploits. You
are right so far as great wars are con-
cerned. There will probably be no op-
portunity to distinguish yourself in
battle. The most of the brigadier-gen.
erals of this country would never have
been heard of had it not been for the
war. General Grant would have re-
NAMED in the useful work of tanning
hides at Galens, and Stonewan Jackson
would have continued q quiet college
professor in Virginia. And whatever
military talents you have will probably
lie dormant forever. Neither will you
probably become great inventor.
Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out
of every 1000 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
s Morse or an Edison, or Humphrey
Dayy or an Eli Whitney. But there are
three great exploits which man can ac-
complish. he can save man, or save
woman, or save 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
comes near demolition. It may be q
or moral, or domestic, or a
social, 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, ard he is
srraigned. All blushing and confused
he is in the presence of judge and jury
and lawyers. He can be sent right on
in the wrong direction. He is feeling
and he is almost desperate.
Let the District Attorney overhaul him
as though he were an old offender, Let,
the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to
say word for him becaus!s he cannot
afford considerable fee, let the Judge
give no opportunity for presenting the
circumstances, hurry up the
case and hustle him up to Auburn or
Sing Sing. IF he lives seventy years,
for seventy years he will be criminal,
and each decade of his life will be
blacker than its predecessor. In the in
terregnums of prison life he can get no
work, and he is glad to break window
glass, or blow open safe, or play the
so as to get back again
within the walls where he can get some
thing 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 come
and help him? She is dead. Wherear
all the ameliorating and salutsry infu-
ences of society? They, do not, touch
him. y
"Why did lot some one long ago in
the case understand that there was an
opportunity for an exploit which would
be famous in Heaven q quadrilllon Of
years after the earth has become scat
tered ashes in the Lest whirlwind? Why
did not the District Attorney take that
young man into his private Office and
say, My son, see that you are the vic
tim of circumstances. This Is your first
crime. You are sorry. I will bring
the person you wronged into your pres
ence and you will apologize and make
all the reparation you can, and I will
give you another chance Or that
young man is presented in the court room
and he has no friends present and the
Judge says: who is your counsel?' And
he answers: I have none And the
iu6s. says: Who will take this young
mans case?' And there is dead halt
and noTone offers, and after while the
Judge turns TO some attorney who never
had good case in alI his life, and never
will, and whose advocacy would be
enough to secure the condemnation of
innocence itself. And the professional
Incompetent crawls up beside the pris-
oner, helpless to rescue despair, when
there oug ght to be struggle among all
the best men OF the profession as to who
should have the honor Of trying to help
that unfortunate. How much would
such an attorney have received as his
fee for such an advocacy? Nothing in
dollars, but much every way in a happy
consciousness that would make his own
life brighter and his own dying pillow
softer and his own heaven happier
consciousness that he had saved man.
Dr.. Tslmage next scored numerically
the practice of business men in seeking
to grind each other out of the trade and
out of existence. A little helping hand,
q little kindly feeling, he said, on the
,aart of his fellows would keep many q