Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-27
CHANCE FOR EXPLOITS.
CAMP-MEETlNO SUNDAY AT
OCEAN GROVE
Affords DR.. Talmage an Opportunity TO
Preach TO $4,000 People-Pathetic
stories Taken from Lire-Interest-
ing and Eloquent Discourse.

| stories Takcn from Lne-lnterest-
ing and Eloquent Discourse.
OCEAN GROVE, N. j., Aug. %, 1901
This is 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 its
o servancc have been enhanced by the
presence of DIR. Talmage, who preach
ed this afternoon in the Auditorium.
Every seat was filled and every inch of
! standing room in the aisles was occu-
! pied, and the greatest enthusiasm pre-
! vailed. 1t is estimated that fully fif-
teen thousand persons were able to
hear the doctor, and many others
were deprived of that privilege.
His text was Daniel 1882
The people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits.
Antiochus Eliphanes, the old sinner,
came down with his army to desolate
the Israelites, advancing one time with
lO2 trained elephants, swinging their
trunks this way and that, and $4,000
infantry, and 5000 cavalry troops, and
they were driven back. Then, the second
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 Epiph-
anes said he wanted time to consult
with his friends about it, and Pop
illus, one of the Roman embassa-
doris, took a staff and made
circle on the ground around Antiochus
Epiphanes 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
swine's 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 i would define to be a
heroic act, a brave feat, great achieve
ment. WELL" you say, 81 admire
such things, but there is no chance for
me; mine is a sort of hum-drum life.
If | had an Antiochus EpiphaneS to
fight, also could do exploits" You
are right, so lar 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
great inventor. Nineteen hundred and
ninety-nine out of every 1000 inyen-
tions 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 lie 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 overwhelnl-
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 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 millstOnes, sits on the edge
of some precipice, or in some other way
comes near demolition. 1t may be a
financial or a moral OF n domestic or a
social or a political eXigency. You
sometimes see it N court rooms. A
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. He can be sent right on
in the wrong direction. lie is feeling
disgraced, and he is almost desperate.
Let the Di trict Attorney overhaul him
as though he were an old offender, let
the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to
say a word for him, because he cannot
afford a considera BILE fee; let the Judge
give no opportunity for presenting the
mitigating circumstances, hurry up the
case, and hustle them up TO Auburn o.
Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, for
seventy years he will be a 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 a 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't his father come and 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 society?
| 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
a 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.
| Thisis your first CRIME. You are sorry.
! will bring the person you wronged
into your presence, and you will
apologize and IN Ike all the reparation
you can, and | will give you another
chance" Or that young man is pre-.
sented in the courtroom, and he has
no friends present, and the judge says:
"Who is your COUNSEL" And ne ans.
wers: 81. have none" And the
young mans case?" And there is a
dead halt, and no one offers, and after
a while the judge turns to some attor.
ney, who never had good case in all
his life and never will, and whose ad
vocacy would be enough To
secure the condemnation of in.
nocence itself And the profes,
sional incompetent crawls up beside
the prisoner, helplessness to rescue de,
spair, when there ought TO be a strug
gle among all the best men of the pro
fession as to who should have the
honor of trying TO help that unfortu,
nate. How much would such an attor
ney have received as his fee for such
an advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but
much every way in a happy conscious
ness that would make his own life
brighter, and his own dying pillow
sweeter, and his own heaven happier
the consciousness that he had saved {
man.
| There sometimes coma eyi1apoia,