The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-27
Great Exploits For Us
III. IAl4MAGk POINTS OUT
WI T We MAY DO.
\ Deed OF Greater Worth Than
Leading an Army To Victory
i'm Battle
IS The LEADING Or A HUMAN SOUL
TO GOD.

OcBAN 6RovK, y. j., Aug. 8-Thh
Is camp meeting Sunday at Oceau
Grove. Its celebration is always 70
gaIded as the great event of the year al
this famous religious watering place.
This year the attractions Of its observ-
anoe have been enhanced by the pres
enee OF Dr. Talmage, who preAched
this afternoon in the Auditorium. Every
seat was filed and every inch Of stand
ing room In the hsles was occupied, |
and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. |
1t ie estimated that fully fifteen thou |
sand persons were able to hear the doc |
tor, and many others were deprived al !
that privilege His text was Daniel II
80, 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 desoIate the Israelites, advancing
one time with hundred and two
trained elephants, swinging their trunks
this way and that and sixty-two thou
sand infantry, and six thousand calvary
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 be laid successful Siege untd
the navy Of Rome came In with ths
flash Of their long banks of oars and
demanded that the siege be lifted.
And Antiochus Epiphanee said he
wanted time to consult with bis friends
about it, and Popilius, one OF the Ro-
man ambassadors, took q staff and
made a circle on the ground around
Antiochus Epiphanes, and compelled
him to decide before he came out Of
that circle, whereupon be lifted the
siege. Some of the Hebrews had sub
mitted to the invader, but some Of
them resisted valorously, as did Eleazee
when be had swfne's Hesh forced into
his mouth, spit it out, although he
knew he must die for it, and did die
for 1t, and Others, as my text says, did
exploits. ..
An exploit would define to be ON he
role act brave feat, great achieve
ment; WELL" you say, II admire
such things, but there is no chance for
mo; mine Is sort Of humdrum life II
I had an Antiochus Epiphanee to fight
! also could do exploits." You are
right, go far as great vars 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 q
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 win
probably never be a Morse or an Edi-
son or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli
Whitney There is not much probabi-
ity that you will be the one out of txss
| hundred who achieves extraordinary
success I'm commercial or legal or medical
or literary spheres. What then7 Can
you have no opportunity to do exploitsf
l 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 a
man, or save q woman or save a child
! During the course OF bis life, almost
every man gets into an exigency, Il
caught between two fires, is ground be-
tween two nhllstones, sits on the edge
Of some precipice, or In some other way
comes near demolition. 1t may be q
financial or a moral or domestic or q
social or a political edgency. You
yoang man has got into bad company
and he has offended the law, and he i
arraigned- All blushing and confused
be Is In the presence of judge and juHj
and lawyers He can be sent right or
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 ahIest attorneys at the bar re
fuse to say word for him, because b.
cannot afford considerable fee; let tn
Judge give 10 opportunity for present
ing the mitigating circumstances, bur
~ up the case, and hustle him up b
Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seven
ity years, for seventy years he viii Be
criminal, and eac,, decade OF bis hf'
will be hacker than its predecessor. l,
the interregnums of prison life he oal
get no work, and he Is glad to break
window glass, or blow up a safe o
play the highwayman, so as to get bacl
within the walls where he can ge
something to eat and hide himself from
the gaze of the world. =
A HOPELESS oUTCAST.
Why don't his father come and he'll
himl His father Is dead Why don
bis mother come and help hint She !
dead. Where are all the amehorat3n
and salutary influences of society
They do not touch him. Why did DC
some one long ago in the case undei
stand that there was an opportnnit
for the exploit which would be fanou
in heaven a quadriiiion of years afte
the earth has become scattered a6hk
Ia the last whirlwind7
Why did not the district attorne
take that young man into bis prival
; Office and ssy: 'eMy son, see that 20
; are the victim Of circumstances. tn
is your first crime. You are souy.
will bring .tise person you wronRed Int
Contlnued on Second Phge.