The Forrest City times., 1888-10-13
AN ENORMOUS AUDIENCE.
No Limit to the Great Expound-
 CTS Eloquence.
The People That Do Know Their God
 Shall Be Strong.

limited Sacred Expressions Speak, Graph
 icany Of th's Various Mad Ere alzs of the An-
 c.ents-Ths rsFs are Brought Prominently
 to the Front for Their Bass Ac.ions-A
 Lesson 10 Those Of the Present Day and
 Generation.
 BROOKLYN, Oct. 7.-Although no building has been large enough to hold the audiences attracted hy the Rev. T. Dewitt Tslmsee. D. b, in any part of this country or Great Britain for the last twenty years, the throngs ln and around the immense audience room of Brooklyn 1abeTnaele seem to be increasing as ihe years go bE. The opening hymns this morning were heartily sung by the congrega- ton. Dr. Talmage chose for his subject: The Three Greatest Things To Do.n His text was Daniel xL g.; ''The people ihn, do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits" Following Is tke sormOni
 Antlochus Epiphsnes, the old sinner, came down three times with his army 10 desolate the Jews. advancing one time with a hundred and two trained elephants swinging their trunks this way and that, and sixty-two thousand infantry. and si, thousand eatalry troops, and they Sere driven back. Then tic second time he advanced with seventy thou. sand armed men and had been again defeat ed. But the third time hc laid successful siege until inc navy of Rome came in with the flash of their len1 banks of oars and de manded that the siege be lifted. And Antioehus Eplphanes said he wanted time to consult with his friends about 1t, and Popl- llus. one of ihe Roman emessssdors took q staff and made circle on the ground around Antioehus BplphEnes and cotnpeiled hint ia decile before he came out of that circle; whereupon he lifted the seige. Some oi the Jews had submitted to the invader but some of them resisted saioFously, as dd Eleazer when he had swine's flesh forced into his mouth, spit il out. although he knew he must die for it, and did die for it, and others, as ny text says, we're enabled to do exploits.
 An exploit I would define to be heroic act, braye feat, great achievement. Well" you say, 'i admire such things but there Is no chance for me; mine Is sort of bumdrum life. If had an Antioch us Epi. planes to fight l also could do exploitsn You are right so far as great wars are con cerned. There viii probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the brfgadier- generals of this country would never have been heard of had 1t not been for the war. General Grant would have remain ed in the useful work or tanning hides at Galena, and stonewall Jackson would have continued the quiet college professor in Nlr- ginia And whatever military talents you have. will probably lie dormant forever. Neither will you probably become a great inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-nipe out of every two thousand inventions found in the patent office at Washington never yielded ther authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the patent So you will probably never be a Morse or au Edison. or Humphrey ravy or an Eli Whit ney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred that achieves eXiraordinary success in commercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What theni Can you have no opportunity to do explotsi l am going to show you to. daY that there are three opportunities open that are grand, thr Hing, Tar reaching, stupenduous and overwhelming. They are before you now. In one, if not in all three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest things on earth to do are to save a man. or save woman, or save ehld.
 During the course of his life almost every man gets into an eSigcney, is caught be- tween two fires. is ground between two millstones, sits on the edge of some preci- pice, or in some other way comes near de- molition. IL maY be a financial, or a moral, or domestic, or a social, or n political ex- igcnev. You sometim@s see it in court roms. young man has got into bad company and he has offended Inc law, and he is arraign- ed. All blushing and confused he is in the presence of the judge and iury and lawyers, He eau be sent right on in the wrong direc- tion. He is feeling disgraced. and he is al- most desperate. Let the District Attorney overhaul him as though he were an old offend. CT, let the ablest attorners at the bar refuse to say a word for hlm because he cannot af- ford considerable fee, let the judge give no opportunity for the case and hustle him up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, for seventy years he will be q Criminal and each decade of his fife will be blacker than its raedeecssoF. In the interregnums of prison life he can get no work, and he is glad to break a window glass, or blow up a safe, or play the highwayman, so as to 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 fa- ther come and help himi His father is dead
 Why don't hls mother come and help hint She is dead. Where are all the ameliorating and sautary influences of society," They do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in The case understand that there was an opportunity for tue exploit which would be famous in heaven a quadrillion of years after the earth has become scattered ashes in the last whirlwindl Why did not the Dis trict Attorney take that young man into his
 private office and say: ''My son, sec that
 you are the victim of circumstances. This is your first crime. You are sorry. I will bring the person you wronged into your presence and you will apologis; and make all the re- paration you can, and will give you ano her chance" Or that young man is presented in the court room and he has no friends present.
 and the judge says: "Who is your counseli'
 "Who will take this young mans casem And
 there is a dead halt and no one offers, and
 after while the judge turns to some attorney
 who never had good case in all his life and never will, and whose advocacy would be enough to secure the condemnation of inno cence itself. And the professional Ineomps- tent erawls up beside the prisoner, helpless
 ness to rescue despair, when there ought to be a struggle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor oi trying to help that unfortunate. How muct would such an attorney have received as his fee for such an advoeacyi Nothing in dol lars, but much every way in a happy con sci0usBess that would make his own life brighter and his own dying pillar sweeter and his own heaven happer-the consciousness: tbat he had saved a maul
 So there are commercial exigencles. A very
 late spring oblterates the demand for spring overeoats and spring hats and spring apparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands of people say: 1t seems we are going 10 have nc spring and we shall go straight out of winter into warm weatocr, and we can get along
 without the usaal spring dttlre." Or there is no autumn weather, the heat plungine
 into the cold, and the usual clothing. which is a compromise between summer and winter is not required. IL makes a difference in the sale of millions and millions of dollars oi goods, and some over sanguine young mer chant Is caught with a vast amount of un. salcabie goods that never will be ssleable
 again except at prices ruinously reduced That young merchant with somewhat limit
 ed capital is in q predieament What shall
 the old merchants do as they see that young man in ikis awful crislsi Rub their hand:
 and laugh and say: Good for him. lie
 might have known better. When he has been
 in the business as long as We have, he will
 not load his shelves in that way. Hal Hal
 He will burst up before long. He had no bus mess to open his store so near to ours any
 how" Sheriff s sale Red flag in the window
 ''How much is bid for these oUt-of-the-fash ion spring overcoats and spring hats or fall clothing out of datel What do l hear m the
 way of q bidYn -Four dollars" Absurd,
 cannot take that bid of four dollars apiece.
 Why, these coats when first put upon the
 market were offered at fifteen dollars each,
 and now I sn offered only four dol ars. k
 that ali Five dollars do I heari Going al
 thatl Gone at five dollars, " and he takes ihe
 whole lot. The young merchant goes homG
 that night and says to his wife: Well Mary,
 we will have to move out Of this house aud
 sell our piano. That old merchant that has
 had an evil eve on me ever since l started has
 bought out all that clothing, and he will have
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