Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-09-12
REV. DIR. TAIMAGE
The BrOOklyn DivincS
Sunday Sermon.

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Goa sLul ic S'JoAgaed DO Srpfolts Dan.
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Antlochus Epipaane>, the Old sinner, came
down tire times with his army 70 desolete
tie Israelites. Advancing one time with a
hundred and two trained elephants. swinging
Their trunks this was and that. ana sixty
Two thousand Infantry and six thousand
cavalry troops. AMI they were
Dir ven tach. Then. the second time. he
advanced with seventy thousand armed
men. and had been again defeated. But tue
third time he lad successful siege unit! the
navy CT Rome came III with the fiaoh ~
tier long banks u oars and demandel
that the siege te !dte3. And Anflochts
EpipAaues said liz wanted time to consult
with his friend, 1bJut it, and Popilius, one
II th- Roman ambassadors, took u stan
su.i MA IL a circle Oh the grount around
Antiocbus ~Epip5anes. ard compelled him 10
!. CcGidr before he came out OF that circle;
=" her e,poh he lifted Inc siege. Some Of the
Hebrews had submitted II the invader, but
~One .: them resisted. yalorousiv. as did
Eleazer when h had s"ine's flesh forced into
his mouth, spit it out, although be knew he
must die tor il, and did de for il. and others
a. my text saw, Gid exploits.
An exploit wouidh define t. be an heroic
acr. a Draw feat. a great achievement.
W., you say, i admire -uch things, but
tht re Is no chance for me: mine Is Il sort OF
humdrum lie. II | had al Autiochus
Epiphanes I" tight, ! also cDGli DO exploits.
You are right. 50 far os great wars are
concerned. There viii probably be no op-
portunity TO distiugd >l yOur..if IN battles.
The most Of the tilgadier generals Of
tins country would never have been
iearl OF had II not Teen for the war.
Neither VIII YOU probably n-come a great
Inventor. Nineteen hun4red and ninety
nine out Of every tWO thousand inventions
found in the atent Office az " ~aShington
never yielded their authors enough money
TO pay tor the expense, Of securing the
patent 80 you viii probably never BE a
Morse CT Ell Edison or a Humphrey Davy
or an Eli Whitney. There IS not much
probability that vou viii BE- the one ont OF
Tie hundred vino achieves extraordinary
success IN commercial or legal or medical
Of literary spheres. What them Can YOU
have 10 opportunity u do exploits ! am
gong 10 show that there are three oppor-
tuiIities open that are grand, thrilling, far
reaching, etilpenlous and overwhelming.
Incy are before you now In one, ii not all
three Of them, you may do exploits. The
three greatest Things on earth to do are to
savea man, Or save 81 woman, or save q
child.
During the COURSE Of his life almost
every uan gets into all exigeucv, is caught
between two fires, j, ground between two
mil'stCnes. sits on the edge of some precl-
IIcc. OF III some other waNcoInes near dem
oltlon. II may be q financial or Il moral
or 4 domestic or a social or a political eXl-
g.ncy.. lou sometimes see it in court
rooms A young man has got into bad
company and he has offended the Jaw, and
he is arraigned. All bIushing and confused
lawyers. He can be sent right on in the
wrong direction. He j. feeling disgraced and
he IS almost desperate.
Let the district attorney overhaul him as
though he were al old offender, let the
ahle>t attorneys at the bar refuse to say u
word 10. hlul, because he cannot afford d
considerable fee. let the judge give no op-
IortWalty for presenting the mitigating
circumstances hurry ny the case and hustle
bum up to Auburn or ) ing Sing. Ii no live
evenly years, Tor seventy years he Will be
a criminal, and each decade OF his life
VII! be blscksr than It's predecessor. In the
heterogeneous 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 highwayman
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 bis father come and help himt
His father is dead. Why don't his mother
come and help him. She is dead. Where
are all tie ameIiorating and s~alutarv i'll
huences Of society They do not touch
blin. Why did not some one long ago in
the case understand that there was an op-
~portunlty for the exploit which would be
famous III heaven Il 1uadrillion of years
after the earth has become scattered ashes
III the lest whiriwind2 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 sorry. [
VIII brIng the person you WrOnged into
your presence. and you will apologize and
make all the reUaration you can, and | will
give you another chance Or that young
man is presented in the courtroom. anu he
has no friends present, and the Judge says,
Wins is your couusel:' And he answers,
II have none. And the judge says, who
Will take this young mans case
And there Is IA dead halt and no one offers,
and after awhile the Judge turns to some at
torney, who never had a 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
sional incompetent crawls up beside the
prisoner, he!ples>nt>s u rescue despair.
where there ought to be a struggle among
ali the best Hen OF the profession as To who
should have the honor ot TRYING to help tina
unfortunate. How much would sucl all az
torney have received as his fee for such all
advocacy Nothing III dollars, but much
every way III a happy consciousness that
wouid make bis OWN lite brighter. and hi'
own diving pillow sSeeter. and his owl
heaven happier the CONSCIOUSNESS that he
had SaSeda man
50 THERE are commercial cxlgenc.es. \
very late spring obliterate> the demand fol
spring overcoatS AMI spring hats aud sprin-
apparel or all sorts. Hundreds OF thousand,
of people say, 1T seams We are going /
have no 4rEI-, aud We shall 60 straight
out OF winter INTO warm weather aud w
can get along without the usual spring at
tire. Or there is To autumn weather. tn,
heat ptulgins into the cold, and the uSua
clothing which Is a c~oinpro-nise btveei
summer and winter Is not required. II
makes a difference III the saie OF million,
and millions OF dollars or goods, ana som
oVer>an1uiue young merchant is caugh'
with Il vast amount OF unstable goods tina
viii never be salable again, except at price
rurnonsly reduced.
The young merchant with u soneyna
llnlted capital Is III a preiicatueat. VIVA
shall! the olI merchants 30 as they see tn
Young man III this awful crisis: Rub theii
hands and laugh and ~aS 'Gooi for him
He might have known better. When Ii
has Teen i'll business as Ion. as We have Il
VIII not load his shelves III that way Ha
Ha' He VIII burst up before long. He la
no business Il open his store - near 70 our
AMINO" sSherifi sale, Red las. III til
window How much i BID fo. the>e gu