The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-08-27
WORK FOR ALL.
Dr. Talmage Offers Suggestions
For Great Deeds.
Helping Humanity Out of Great PerlIs-
shapeing the Destiny of Young Men
How to observe the Golden Rule
Good Advice Generally.

At late camp meeting at Ocea1
Grove, N. j., Rev. t. Dewitt Talmag,
preached to great throng from the
text: 'The people that do know theil
God shall be strong and do exploits
Daniel, ii. SO. He said:
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner
came down three times with his army
to desolate the Israelites, advancing
one time with 1O3 trained elephants
swinging their trunks this way anc
that, and $4,000 infantry and 5000 cav
airy troops and they were driven back
Then, the second time, he advanced
with 10000 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 Antioc It's
EriPhancs said ne wanted time to con
salt with his friends about it, and Po-
illus, one Of the Roman ambassadors,
took staff and made circle on the
ground around Antiochus Epiphanes,
and compelled him to decide before he
came out Of that circle; whereupon he
lifted the siege. Some of the Hebrews
had submitted to'the' invader, but some
Of them resisted valorously, as did
Eleazer when he had swine's flesh
forced into his mouth, spit it out, al
though he knew he must die for it, and
did die for it; and others, as my text
Says did exploits.
An exploit would define to be he
role act brave feat, great achieve
ment "Well," you say, II admire
such things, but there is no chance for
me; mine is sort of humdrum life. If
had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, I
also could do exploits" You are right,
SO far as great wars 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.
Neither will yon 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 to pay for the expenses
of securing the patent. So you will
probably never be a 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 achieve extraordinary
success in commercial or legal or medi-
cal or literary spheres. What then?
Can you have no opportunity to do ex-
PLOTS? ! am going to show that there
are three opportunities open that are
grand, thrilling, far-reaching, stipend
Gus and overwhelming They are be-
fore 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
q child During the course of his life
almost every man gets into an cxigency
is caught between two fires, is ground
between 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, or q domestic,
or a social, or q political exigency.
You sometimes see it in court rooms.
young man has got into bad company
and he has offended the law, and he is |
arraigned. All blushing and confused,
ne 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 district attorney overhaul him
as though he were an old offender; let |
the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse |
to say word for him, because he can
not afford a considerable fee; let the
judge give no opportunity for present
ing the mitigating circumstances, hurry
up the case, and hustle him up to Au-
burn or Sing Sing. If he lives seventy
years, for seventy years he will be
and each decade of his life
will be blacker than its predecessor
Why doesn't his father come and help
him? His father is dead. Why doesn't
bis mother come and help him? 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 the case under
stand there was an opportunity for the
exploit which would be famous in
Heaven quarter Of a million years
after earth has become scattered ashes
n the last whirlwind? Why did not
he district attorney take that young
nan into his private office and say:
My son, | see that you are the victim
# circumstances. This is your first
rime You are sorry. will bring the
'erson yc vronged into your presence
nd yo' viii apologize and make all
he PREPARATION you can and will give :
'ou another chance"
Or that young man is presented in :
ne court room and he has no friends y
resent and the judge says: "Who Is $
our counscl?" And he answers: II I
lave none" And the Judge says: y
Who will take this young mans case?" I
And there is dead halt and no one Of c
ers> and after while the judge turns
2 some attorney who never had good T
'ase in all his life, and never will, and I
Shose advocacy would be enough to t
ecure the condemnation of innocence t
sell And the professional incompe-
en- crawls mp beside the prisoner {
,eiplesSness to rescue despair. when y
mere ought to be q struggle among all b
ne best men of the profession as to v
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