Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
"GREAT EXPLOITS"
Dr.. TALXAGE PRElCHRS 10 CROWDS AT
OCEAN GROVE.
Re Discoursss on the Peats il Business and in Re-
Egion-Ihs Distinguished Preacher Cites the
Qualifications Necessary for Sue
cess in all Lines.
Sn.sal T.lsran 70 ths R.ai,,sr.


Grove. It's celebration is always re,
garded as the great event of the year al
this famous religious watering-place
This year the attractions of It's obServ,
ance have been enhanced by the pres
ence Of DR.. TalmageS who preached
this afternoon in (he Auditorium.
Every seat was filed and every inch OF
standing room in the aisles was Occu-
pied and the greatest enthusiasm pre-
vailed. 1t is estimated that fully $1,000
persons were able 10 hear the doctor,
and many persons were deprived OF
that privilege. His text was Daniel
1892: THE people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits"
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner,
came down three times with his army TO
desolate the Israelites, advancing one
time with q hundred and two trained
elephants, swinging their trunks this
way and that, and sixty-twO thousand
Infantry and sixty thousand cavalry
troops, and they were driven back.
Then, the second time, he advanced
with seventy thousand armed men, and
had been again defeated. But the third
time be 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 AntiOchus
EpiDhanes said he wanted time 10 con-
suit with his friends about 10, and
PoDilius. one of the Roman embassa-
doris, took g staff and made a circle On
the ground around AntiOchus Epi-
planes and compelled him TO decide
before he came out OF that circle;
whereupon he lifted the siege. Some OF
the Hebrews had submitted to the In
vader. but some OF them resisted valOr-
ously, as did Eleazer when he had
swine'S flesh forced into his mouth, spit
il out, although he knew he must die
for il, and did die for IL; and others, as
my text says, did exploits.
An exploit I would define 10 be he
role act, a brave feat, great achieve
ment. "Weil," you say, Il admire such
things, but there is no chance for me;
mine in q sort of hum-drum life. II l
had an Antiochus EpiphaneS TO fight,
also could do exploits" You are right,
30 far as great wars are concerned.
There will probably be no opportunity
10 distinguish yourself in battle. The
most OF the brlgadier- generals OF this
country would never have been heard
of had il not been for the war.
Neither will you probably become
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 Ell Whit
new. There is not much probability
that you will be the one out OF the hun
dred who achieves extraordinary sue
cess in commercial or legal or medical |
or literary spheres. What then? Can /
YOU have no opportunity 70 do exploits? |
am going 90 show that there are three |
open that are grand, /
thrilling, far-reaching, stuDendOus and
overwhelming. They are before you |
now. In one, if not all three OF them, /
you may do exploits. The three great |
est things on earth 70 do are 90 save /
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
comes near demolition. IL may be a
financial. or a moral, or q domestic, or
social OF 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
arraicned. All bluShing and confused,
he is i'm the presence of judge and jury
and lawyers. lie can be sent right on
I'm the wrong direction. He is feeling
discraced: and he Is almost desperate.
Let the District Attorney overhaul him
as though ne were an old offender, let
the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to
saw a word for him, because he cannot
afford o considerable fee; let the Judge
give no opportunity for presenting the
mitigating circumstances, hurry up the
case aud 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 life will be blacker
than It's predecessor. In the interreg-
NUNS OF prison life he can get no work,
and he is glad 60 break windOw-glaSs
or blow up a sale, or play the highway
man. SO rs 10 get back within the walls
where no can get something to eat, and
hide himself from the gaze OF the world.
Why don't his father come and help
bimP His father is dead. Why don't
his mother come and help him2 She is
dead. Where are all the ameliOrating
and salutary influences Of society? They
40 not touch him. Why did not some
one long ago in the case understand
that there was an opportunity for the
exdloit which would be famous in
heaven a quadrillOn of years after the
earth has become scattered 60 ashes In
the last whlrwind? Why did not the
District Attorney take that young
man into his private office and
say: 'My son, see that You
are the victims 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 reparatiOn you can,
and will give you another chance. "
Or that young man is presented in the
court room, and he has no friends pres
emit. and the Judge says: who is your
counsel?" And he answers: Il have
none" And the Judge says: "Who
will take this young mans caSe?" And
there is a dead halt, and no one offers,
and after a while the judge turns 10
some attorney, who never had good
case i'm all his life, and never will, and
whose advocacy would be enough to
secure the condemnation OF limo
cence itself. And the professional
Incompetent crawls up beside
the prisoner, helplesSneSs to rescue d.
spair. when there ought to be a struggle
among all of the best men Of the pro
-, ,,-bo shOrld have the hODOi