Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-09-17
CHANCE FOR EXPLOITS.
cAMp-MEETlNC SUNDAY ~
OCEAN GROVE
Affords Or. Talmage an Opportunity :"
Preach to $4,000 People-Pat"et'c
stories Taken from Life-ih'ere"'
ing and Eloquent Discourse.

OCEAN GROVE, n. j., Aug. 70, 1871
This is camp-meeting Sunday at ocean
Grove. Its celebration is always re-
parded as the great event OF the year
at this famous religious watering
place. This year the attractions Oh Tvs
q servance have been enhanced by tne
presence of DR.. Talmagc, who preach
ed this afternoon in the Auditorium.
Every seat was filed and every men OF
standing room in the aisles was occ"-
pied, and the greatest enthusiasm pre-
vailed. 1t is estimated that 1uiiy "
teen thousand persons were aple ~
hear the doctor, and many oIhers
were deprived OF that PriViiese
His text was Daniel 10
| "The people that do know the'r
God shall be strong and DO eXp!ol's.
Antiochus Eliphanes, the OLD sinner,
came down with his army to desolate
the Israelites, ad,ancing one time WIN
1O2 trained elephants. swinging their
trunks this way and that, ana o-'oo,
infantry, and 5000 cavalry troops ana
! they were driven back. Then, the secona
time he advanced with 'o'ooo
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 that the
siege be lifted. And Antiochus Epiph-
! anes said he wanted time to consult
with his friends about it, and Pop
illus, one of the Roman embassa-
doris. took staff and made
circle on the ground around Antiochus
Epiphaues, and compelled him to de-
eide before he came out of that circle;
whereupon he lifted the siege. Some
! of the Hebrews had submitted t the
| invader, but some of them resisted val
! orously as did Eleazer when he had
| swines flesh forced into his mouth,
| spit 1t out, although he knew he must
| die for it, ank did die for it: and Others,
as my text says, did exploits.
An exploit | would define to be
heroic act, a brave feat, great achieve
ment. "Well," You say, IL admire
such things. but there is no chance for
me; mine is sort of hum drum life.
If | had an Antiochus EpiphaneS to
fight, l also could do exploits You
are right, so Tar as great wars are con-
cerned. 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.
Neither will you probably become a
great inventor. Nineteen hundred and
ninety-nine ont of every 1000 inven-
tons 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 e a Morse, or
and Edison, or 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 com
mercial or legal or medical or literary
spheres. What then? Can you have no
opportunity to do exploits? am going
to show that there are three opportun-
tiles open that are grand. thrilling, far
reaching, stupendous, and overwhc I'm
ing. They are before you now. In one
if not all three of them, you may do
exploits. The three greatest things on
earth to do are to save IA man, or save a
woman, or save child
| During the course of his life. almost
every man gets into an cxigencv. 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. 1t may be IA
financial or moral or domestic or a
social or a political eXigency. You
sometimes see it II court rooms. A
young man has got into bad company
and nc has offended the law, and he is
arraigned. All bluShing and confused
he is in the presence of judge and jury
and lawyers. lie can be sent right on
In the wrong direction. lie is feeling
disgraced, and he is almost desperate.
Let the Di trict ATTORNEY overhaul hin
US though he were an old offender, lei
the ahlest attorneys at the bar refuse tt
say word for him, because he canno,
afford Il considerable fee: let the Judge
give no opportunity for presenting the
mitigating circumstances, hurry up the
case, and hustle them up to Auburn OF
Sing Sing. he live seventy wears, fol-
seventy years he will be criminal
and each decade of his life will b,
blaclser than its predecessor. In tn.
interregnums Of prison life he can gc
no work, and he is GLAD to break ;
window glass. or blow up safe, OF
play the highwuy-man, 50 as to pe
back within the walls where he car
get something to eat and hide himsel
from the gaze OF the world.
why upu his Iatnef come and hell
him? His father is dead. WHY don
his mother come and help him? Sh,
is dead. Where are all the ameliorat
ing and salutary influences of society
They do not touch him. VIII,
did not some one Ion,
ago in the case understand tha
there was an opportunity for the ex
plot which would be famous in heave,
a quadrillion of years after the eartl
has become scattered ashes in the las
; whirlwind? Why did not the District
Attorney take that young man into In
private office and say: my son, see tina
you are the victim of circumstances
This Is your first crime. You are sorry
! will bring the person you wronge,
into your presence, and you will
apologize and m Ike all the PREPARATION
you can, and will give you anothe
chance" Or that young man is pre-
scntcd in the courtroom, and he ha
no friends present, and the Judge saws
"Who is your counsel?" And he ans
, wers: IL have none And tn
judge says: 'Who win take thi
, young mans case?' And there is
dead halt, and no one offers. and ofte
) q while the Judge turns to some alto,