Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-08-28
CHANCE FOR EXPLOITS.
CAMP-MEETlNG SUNDAY AT
OCEAN GROVE
Affords DIR. TsiInage an Opportunity 20
Preach 90 $4,000 People-Pntheue
stories Taken from Life-interesr
Ing aud Eloquent Discourse.

OCEAN Grove, y. j., Aug. %, 1901
This IS camp meeting sunday at Ocean
Grove. Its celebration is always re-
Carded a. the great event of the year
AZ tIis famous religious watering
place Tn IS year the attractions of its
servance have been enhanced by the
presen e OF Or. lalmage, who preach
ed TINS afternoon III the Auditorium.
Every seat was filled and every inch OF
standing room in the aisles was occu-
pied. and the greatest enthusiasm pre-
val e1. IT is estimated that fully Ii
teen thousand persons were able To
hear the doctor, and many others
were deprived OF that privilege.
His test was Daniel 1852
The people that do know their
God shall he strong and do exploits.
Antiochus Elphanes, the old sinner,
came down with his army to desolatc
the Israelites, adv ancing one time with
lO2 trained elephants, swinging their
trunks this way and that, and 62,OOo
infantry, and 1900 cavalry troops, ana
they were driven back. Then, the second
time he advanced with 10000
armed men, and had been again
defeated. But the third time he iaid
successful siege until the navy OF Roma
came III with the flash of tneir long
banks of oars and demanded that tho
siege BE- lifted. And Antiocbus Epiph-
anes said he wanted time To consult
with his friends about il, and Pop
illus, one of the Roman embassa-
doris, took staff and made a
circle on the ground around Antiochus
Epiphanes, and compelled him To de-
cide before he came out of that circle:
whcreupon he lifted the siege. Some
OF the Hebrews had submitted & the
invader, but some of them resisted VII
orously. as did Eleazer when he had
swine 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, brave feat, a great achieve
ment. "Nell,' you say, II admire
such things, but there Is no chance for
me; mine is sort of hum-drum lite.
ii | had an Antiochus Epiphanes To
fight, | also could do exploits. You
are right, so Tar as great wars are con-
cerncd. There will probably Ice no
opportunity TO distinguish yourself in
battle. The mos 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 out of every 1000 inven-
tons found in the Patent Cfice at
Washington never yielded their
authors enough money 10 pay for the
expenses of securing the patent. 50
you will probably never lie 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
mercal or legal CT 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 overwhelm-
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 10 save man, or save u
woman, or save a child.
During the course of his life, almost
every man gets into an eXigencv. is
caught between two fires, is ground be-
tween two milGitOnes, sits on the edge
of some precipice, or in some other way
comes near demolition. 1t may be a
financial or a moral or domestic or a
social or a political eXigency. You
sometimes see it IL court rooms 4
young man has got into bad company
and ne 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. He is feeling
L.. 4 1 /. :. 4 l.
Let the hi trict Attorney overhaul him
as though he were an old offender, let
the ableSt attorneys at the bar refuse to
say word COR him, because he cannot
afford a considera ole fee; let the Judge
give no opportunity for presenting the
mitigating circumstances hurry up the
case, and hustle them up to Auburn or
Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, for
seventy years he will be a criminal,
and each decade of his life will be
blacller than its predecessor. In the
of prison life he can get
no work, and he is GLAD to break
windowglass or blow up safe, or
play the highway-man, so as TO get
back within the walls where he can
get something TO eat, and hide himself
from the gaze OF the world.
Why don his father come end help
him? His father is dead Why don t
his mother come and help him? She
is dead. Where are all the ameliorat-
ing and salutary influences of societvo
They do not touch him. WHY
did not some one long
ago in the case understand that
there was an opportunity for the ex-
plot which would be famous in heaven
Il quadrillion Of years after the earth
has become scattered ashes in the last
whirlwind? 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 so~rv.
j Will bring the person you wronged
into your presence, and you VIII
apolCgi c and IN ltc all the PREPARATION
you can and will give you another
chance. Or that young man i Pre-.
sen ed in he courtroom, and he has
no friends present, and the judge says.
'Nho Is your counsel" And Hc aas-
wers: 81 have none" And the
iudVe says: ''Who will take this
young mans case?" And there is a
dead halt, and no one offers. and after