Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-24
ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT
THE WORLD WILL NOT KNOW 1T,
BUT ALMIGHTY GOD WILL.


OcEAN GROVE, ~ j., Aug 23-This is
camp meeting Sunday at Ocean Grove It's
celebration Is always regarded as the great
event OF the year mt this famous religious
watering place. This year the attractions
OF It's observance have been enhanced by
the presence Of DIR. Talmage, who preached
this afternoon in the Auditorium. Every
seat was filed and every inch Of standing
room In the aisles was occupied, and the
greatest enthusiasm prevailed. 1t is esti-
mated that fully fifteen thousand persons
were able to hear the doctor, and many
Others were deprived of that privilege.
His text was Daniel XII, 81, "rhe 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
deBolate the lsraeltes, advancing one time
with hundred and two trained elephants,
swinging their trunks this way and that
and sixty-two thousand infantry and six
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 he laid successful siege until the
navy Of Rome came in with the flash of
their long banks of oars and demanded
chat the siege be lifted And Antiochus
Epiphanes said he wanted time to consult
with his friends about it, and Popilius, one
OF the Roman ambassadors, took a 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 Hebrews had submitted to the invader,
but some OF them resisted vigorously, as
did EleaZer when he had swines flesh
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, did exploits.
ALL HAVE THREE OPPORTUNITIES.
An exploit would define to be an heroic
act, brave feat, n great achievement.
WELL" you say, 81 admire such things,
but there Is no chance for me; mine is
sort of humdrum life. II had an Antio-
phus Epiphancs to fight, also could do
exploits" You are right, so far us great
wars are concerned There will probably
be no opportunity 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.
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 n Humphrey Davy
or an Eli Whitney. There is not much
probability that you will be the one out of
the hundred who achieves extraordinary
success In commercial or legal or medical
or literary spheres. What thenY Can you
have no opportunity to do exploitsS | am
going TO show that there are three oppor-
tunities open that are grand thrilling, far
reaching, stupendous and overwhelming
They are before you now. In one, II not
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 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 preca-
pice, or In some other way comes near dem
clifton. 1t may be financial or a moral
or domestic or a social or a political ext
gency. You sometimes see 1t in court
rooms A young man has got into bad
company and he has offended the law, and
be is arraigned All blushing and con-
fused he Is in the presence Of Judge and
fury and lawyers. He can be sent right on
In the wrong direction. He Is feeling dis
graced and he Is almost desperate.
Let the district attorney overhaul him
rs though he were an old offender; let the
Rblest attorneys at the bar refuse to say
word FOR him, because he cannot afford
considerable fee, let the Judge give no OPP
portunity for presenting the mitigating
circumstances, hurry up the case and hus-
tie 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
win be blacker than its predecessor. In
the interregnums of prison life he can get
DO work, and he Is glad to break a window
glass or blow up safe or play the high
wayman 30 as to get back within the walls
where he can get something to eat and
hide himself from the gaze Of the world.
liz MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED.
Why don't his father come and help himf
His father Is dead Why don't his mother
come aud help hmP She is dead. Where
are all the amelorating and salutary in
Huences of society," They do not touch
him. Why did not some one long ago in
the case understand that there was an OPP
portunity for the exploit which would be
famous in heaven quadrillion of years
after the earth has become scattered ashes
In the last whrlwind2 Why did not the
district attorney take that young man into
his private office and say; My son, | see
that you are the victim of circumstances.
This Is your first crime. You are sorry. l
will bring the person you wronged into
your presence, and you will apologize and
make all the reparation you can, and Twill
give you another chance" Or that young
man il presented in the courtroom, and
no has no friends present, and the judge
aays, "Who is your-counselP And he an
swers, ~ have none" And the Judge
says, "Who will take this young mans
casem
And there Is a dead halt, and no one
offers, and after awhile the judge turns to
some attorney, who never had good case
In all his life and never will, and whose adj
vocacy would be enough to secure the con-
domination of innocence itself. And the
professional incompetent crawls up beside
the prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair,
where there ought 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
auch an Advocacy Nothing In dollars,
but much every way in happy conscious
ness that would make his own life brighter,
and his OWN dying pillow sweeter, and his
own heaven hApper-the CONSCIOUSNESS
that he had saved mani
DESTRUCTION rs BEFORE HIM.
60 there are commercial eXigencies. A
very late spring obliterates the demand for
epring overcoats and spring hats and spring
apparel of all sorts Hundreds of thousands