The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-28
GREAT EXPLOITS FOR Us.
|DR. TALMAoE POINTS OUT WHAT
WE MAY DO.

= Deed Of Greater Worth than Leading
IN Army to victory la Battle IL tbs
Leading Of Human Soul to God.
OCEAN GROVE. N. j.. Aug. 2S.-Thil
h camp meeting Sunday at Ocean
Grove. Its celebration Is always re-
garded as the great event Of the year at
this famous religious watering place.
This year the attractions of it's observ-
ance have be enhanced by the pres
ence Of DR.. Tmage, who preached
this afternoon in the Auditorium. Every
seat was filled and every inch Of stand
ing room in the aisles was occupied,
end the greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
Il Is estimated that fully fifteen thou
sand persons were able to hear the doc
tor, and many others were deprived OF
that privilege. His text was Daniel xi,
80, 1.-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 hundred and two
trained elephants, swinging their trunks
this way and that, and sixty-two thou
sand infantry, anG six thousand calvary
troops, and they were driven back.
Then, the seconc 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
fash Of their long banks of oars and
demanded that the siege be lifted.
And Antiochus Epiphanes said he
wanted time to consult with his friends
about it, and Popilius, one of the Ro-
man ambassadors, took 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 sub
mitted to the invader, but some of
them resisted valorously, as did Eleazer
when he had swine's 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.
An exploit would define to be an he
roic act, a brave feat, a great achieve
ment well" you say, II admire
such things, but there is no chance for
me; mine is sort OF humdrum life. III
I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight
I also could do exploits" You are
right, 90 far as great wars are concerned.
There will probably be no opportunity
to distinguish yourself in battle The
most of the brigadier generals of this
country would never have been heard
of had it not been for the war.
THREE GRAND OPPORTUNITIES.
Neither will you probably become
great inventor. Nineteen hundred and
ninety; nine out Of every two thousand
INVENTIONS lodnd in the patent 6fice at
Washington never yielded their authors
enough money to pay for the expenses
Of securing the patent. So you will
never be Morse or an Edi-
son or Humphrey Davy or an Eli
Whitney. There is not much probable
ity that you will be the one out Of the
hundred who achieves extraordinary
success in commercial or legal or medical
or literary spheres. What then9 Can
you have no opportunity to do exploits9
I am going to show that there are three
open that are grand,
thrilling, far reaching, stupendous 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 to do are to save a
man, or save 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 lear demolition. It may be a
financial or moral or domestic or a
social or political exigency. You
see it in courtrooms. A
young man has got into bad company
and he has offended the law, and he is
arraigned. All blushing and confused,
be is in the presence of judge and jury
and lawyers. He can be sent right on
IN the wrong direction. He is feeling
disgraced, 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 re-
fuse to say word for him, because he
cannot afford considerable fee; let the
Judge give no opportunity for present
ing the mitigating circumstances, hur-
~ up the case, and hustle him up to
Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seven
ty years, for seventy years he will be
and each decade of his life
will be blacker than its predecessor. In
The interregnums of prison life he can
get no work. and he is glad to break
window glass. or blow up safe or
play the highwayman, SO as to get back
within the walls where he can get
to eat and hide himself from
the gaze of the world
HOPELESS OUTCAST.
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