Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-08-29
ACCOMAC G. H. VA. SATURDAY, AUGUST
GREAT EXPLOITS FOR Us.
,R. TALMAGE POINTS OUT WHAT
WE MAY 30.

spR. TALMAGE POINTS OUT WHAT
WE MAY 30.
IA Deed of Grenter Worth than Leading
an Army TO Victory In Battle Is tile
Leading of n Human Soul to God.
ooEAN GROVE N. j., Aug. 23.-This
His camp meeting Sunday ct Ocean
SGrove. Its celebration is always re-
Egarded as the great event Of the year st
this famous religious watering place.
This year the attractions Of it's observ-
lance have been enhanced by the pres
ence OF DR.. Talnagc. who preached
thisafternoon intlle.Auditorium Every
EseatSwas filled and every inch of stand
ling room in the aisles was occupied,
land the greatest entliusiasm prevailed.
EIt is estimated that fully fifteen, thou,
ssand persons were able TO hear the doc
ftor, and many others were deprived of 4
ii,,thatspriyiege His text was Daniel Xxi, 4
1872 The people that 10 know their
I God shall be strong and do exploits
j Antiochus Epiplianes, the old sinner,
1 came down three times with his army
Z to desoate the lsraelites, advancing
one time with IA hundred and two
trained elephants. swinging their trunks
i this way aud that, and siyty-two thou
sand infantry. and six thousand calvary
i troops, and they wc.p driven back.
i Then. the second time. he advanced
with seventy Thousand armed men. and
had been again defented But tile
4 third time liz laid successful siege until
the navy Of Rome came in with the
flash of tlleir 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 a circle on the ground around
Antiochns Epiphanes, and compelled
him to decide before he came out of
that circle, whereupon lie lifted the
siege Some of the Hebrews had sub
United to the invader. but some of
them resisted vigorously, as did Eleazer
when he had swines flesh forced into
his mouth, spit it ont. although he
knew lie 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, n brave feat. Il great achieve
lnent. We'll" you say. 81 admire
sucll things. but there is no chance for
me; mine is n sort of huludrum life. If
1 had an Antioctns Epiphanes to fight
also could do exploits" You are
right, so far as great wars are concerned.
There will probably be no opportunity
to distinguish yourself III battle. The
most of the brigadier generals of this
country would never have been heard
of bad it not been for the war;
THREE GRAND OPPORTUNITIES.
Neither will you probably become
great inventor Nineteen hundred and
.-ilipetysuipe. out of. every Two Thousand
Washington never>yielded heirauthors
enough money to pay for the expenses
of securing the patent So you will
probably never he u 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 thcn2 Can
you have no opportunity to do exploitsa
/ am going to show that there are three
opportunities 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
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 be-
tween two milstones sits on the edge
of some precipice, Or III some other way
comes near demolition. 1t may be
financial or a moral or domestic or
social or a political exigency. You
sometimes see it in cOurtrooms. A
| young man has got into bad company
and lie has offended the law, and he is
arraigned. All blusiing and confused,
he 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
I him as though he were an old offender,
let the ablest attorneys at the bar re-
fuse to say word for him, because ne
cannot afford u considerable fee; let the
Judge give no opportunity for present
ing the mitigating circumstances, hur-
~ ND the case. and hustle him up to
Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seven
ty years, for seventy years he will be
criminal, 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 a
window glass. or blow up safe or
play the highwayman, so rs to get back
within the walls where he can get
something to eat and hide himself from
the gaze of the world.
A HOPELESS ouTcAsT.
Why don't his father come and help
him? His father is dead. Why don't
his mother come and help hn2 She is
dead. Where are all the ameliorating
and salutary Influences OF society,"
They do not touch him. Why did not
some one long ago in tile case under
stand that there was an opportunity
for the exploit which would be famous
in heaven Il quadrillion Of years after
the earth has become scattered ashes
in the last whirlwind2
Why did not the district attorney
take that Young man into his private