The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-24
MEMS GREAT EXPLOITS.
REV. TALMAGE breaches AT
OCEAN GROVE, N. j.

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from Daniel xi, 32-"The People That
Do Know God Shall Be Strong and
Do Hxploits."
OCEAN GROVE, N. j., Aug. 23.-This is
campmeeting Sunday at Ocean Grove. Its
celebration is always regarded as the great
event of the year at this famous religious
watering place. This year the attractions
Of its observance have been enhanced by
the presence of DR.. Talmage. who preached
this afternoon in the Auditorium. Every
seat was filled and every inch of standing
room in the aisles was occupied, and the
greatest enthusiasm prevailed. 1t is es-
tlmated that fully 10, 600 persons were able
to hear the doctor, and many Others were
deprived OF that privilege, His text was
Daniel XII, 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
desolate the Israelites, advancing one time
with hundred and two trained elephants.
swinging their trunks this way and that,
and sixty-two thousand infantry and six
thousand cavalry troops, and they were
driven back. Then, the second time be adj
vanced with seventy thousand 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 Epiphanes said
| he wanted time to consult with his friends
| about it, and Popilius, one of the Roman
ambassadors, took staff and made a circle
on the ground around Antiochus Epiphanes,
| and compelled him to decide before he came
out Of the circle; whereupon he lifted the
seige. Some OF the Hebrews had submitted
to the invader, but some of them resisted
valorously. as did Eleszer when he had
swine's flesh forced into his mouth, spit 10
out, although he knew he must die for it,
and did die for it, aud others, as my text
says. did exploits.
An exploit | would define to be a heroio
act, bravo feat, "a great achievement.
"Well, you say, II admire such things,
but there is no chance for me; mine Is a
sort of hum>drum life. If had an Anti
ochus Epiphanes TO fight, also could do ex-
ploits.n You are right 30 far as great wars
are concerned. There will probably be no
opportunity to distinguish yourself In bat-
tie. The most of the brIgadier generals of
this country would never have been heard
of had 1t not been for the war.
Neither will you probably become 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
l to pay for the expenses of securing the pat
| ent. So you will probably never be Morse
| or an Edison or Humphrey DaEy or an
| EliWhitney. There is not much probabil-
fkS that you will be the one out Of the hum
/ dred who achieves extraordinary SUCCESS in
| commercial or legal or medical or literary
| spheres. What thens Can you have no
| opportunity to do exploits! l am going to
| show that there are three opportunities
open that are grand, thrilling, far-reRahing,
stupendous ana overwhelming. 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 O
man, or save woman, or save a child.s
During the course Of his life almost every
man gets into an exigency. is caught be-
tween two fires, is ground between two
| milstones, sits on tho edge of some preci-
| pice, or In some other way comes near
| demolition. 1t may be q financial or a
| moral or domestic or a social or a polit-
| ical extgency. You sometimes see 1t in
| court rooms A young man has got into
| bad company and he has offended the law.
/ and he is arraigned. All blushing and ccu-
| fused he is in the presence of Judge and
| jury and lawyers. He can be sent right on
| in the wrong direction. He is feeling dis
| graced, and he is almost desperate. Let
| the district attorney overhaul him
| as though he were an old offender, let the
| ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say
| word for hln, because he cannot afford q
| considerable fee; let the judge give no op-
| portunity for presenting the mitigating
| circumstances, hurry up the case, and hus-
| tie him up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he
| live seventy years, for seventy years he
will be criminal. and each decade Of his
life will be blaoker than its predecessor. In
the interreRnuns OF prison life he can get
no work, and he is glad to break a window
glass, or blow up safe, or play the high
wayman 80 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 hima
His father is dead. Why don't his mother
come and help hIn9 She is dead. Where
are all the amelorating and salutary in
fuences OF societyl They do not touch him.
Why did not some one long ago in the case
understand that there was an opportunity
for the exploit which would be famous in
heaven quadrlllion of years after the
earth has become scattered ashes in the last
whirlwind? Why did not the district at
torney take that young man into his private
Office aud say "My son, see that you arc
the victim Of circumstances. This is your
first crime. You are sorry. l will
bring the person you wronged into
your presence, and you will apologize and
make all the reparation you can. and will
give you another chance" Or that young
has no friends present, and the judge says:
who is your counselP' And he answers:
II have none" And the judge says: "Wha
| will take this young mans cassp And
| there is a dead halt, and no one offers, and
| after awhile the judge turns to some attor-
| ney, who never had good case in all his
| life. and never will, and whose advocacy
| would be enough to secure the condemna-
| ton of innocence itself And the profess
| sioual incompetent crawls up beside
| tho prisoner, helpless to rescue despair,
| when there ought to be struggle among all
| the best men of the profession as to who
| should have the honor Of trying to help the
| unfortunate. How much would such an at
| torney have received as his fee for such an
advocacya Nothing in money, but much
every way In a happy consciousness that
| would make his own life brighter, and his
own dying pillow sweeter, and his own
| heaven happier-the consciousness that he
had saved a mani
So there are commercial exigencleS. A
very late spring obliterotes the demand Tor
spring overcoats and spring hats and spring
apparel Of all sorts. Hundreds OF thousands
of people say: ut seems we are going TO
have no spring, and we shall go straight out
of winter into warm weather. aud we can
get along without the usual spring attire"
Or there is no autumn weather, the heat
plunging into the cold, and the usual CLOTH
ing which is a compromise between summer
and winter is not required. 1t makes a
difference in the sale of millions and MILL
ions Of dollars OF goods, and some over
sanguine young merchant is caught with a
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