The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-02
ALL MEN NAY b. GREAT.
THE WORLD WELL NOT KNCWlT, BUT
ALMIGHTY GOD WILL.

Which Men ar.i Mn;n;n May Do-Sa"e
aHu,nxn Soul r"r E-ar- II artl the Lord
OCEAN GRovE, \. j.. Aug. %
This is camp mer!:.lS Sunday 4, Ocean
Greve. lis ceieb,a;!uu is always re-
garded as tie gr%at event OF the year at
this famous religious watering place.
This YEAR the attra>tiouS OF its obser-
vance have been e,:l,ance,i by the pres
ence OF DR.. Ta!maye. who preached
this afternoon III the Auditorium. Every
seat was iiiicd eud every inch "t stand
inc room il tue alsles was occupied,
and tie greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
1t is estimated tl.at ;u!ly fifteen thous-
and .erson> were allie IL hear the doc
tor, and many OTHERS were deprived OF
that privilege. HIS text was Daniel n.
80, The peop'e ;iat do know their Goa
shall lie slruns aid do exploits y
Anliochus EplphausS, The old sinner,
came down three tines with bis army to
desolate the Israclite., advancing one
time with a hu, dred aud Two trained
elephants, swinging their uuakS this
way and that. aud S!N;S NV" thousand
Infantry aud SlX IhoU>;,h0 caHasEN troops,
and they were Criyeu back. Then. the
second Tine. he advanced with seventy
thousand AIMED men. and had been
again deit; led. But the 1iirG time he
LAID successful siege until The navy OF
Rome came in with the flash OF their
long talks vi oars and demanded that
the siege &c lifted. And Antlochus
Epiphnnes said he wanted time to con-
suit With his frienGS about 1t. and Popl-
llus. ono Of the Roman ambassadors,
took a staff and made a circle on the
grouuu around Antiochus Epiphanes,
ano compelled him to decide before he
came CUT o. that circle; whereupon ne
littsd the siege. Some Of the Hebrews
had submitted 10 the invader. but some
OF them resisted valorousiy, as did
Eleazer when he had swine's flesh forced
into his mouth. spit it out. although ne
knew he must die Tor it. and did Gle tor
it; and others, as my text says, dld ex-
ploits.
ALL HAVE THREE OPPORTUNITIES.
An exploit / would define to be an
heroic act, brave feat, great achieve
meut. "Well," you say, Il admire
such things, but there is no chance tor
me; mine is sort OF humdrum Life. II
/ had an Anlochus Epiphanes 10 fight,
l also could do exploits" You are
right, so lar as great wars are concern
ed. There will probably be no oppor-
tunity TO distinguish yourself in battle.
The most of the brigaJIer generals OF
this country would never have been.
heard Of ha>; it not been for the war.
Neither viii you probably become
Great inventor. Nineteen hundred and
ninety-nire out OF every two thousand
inventions found in the patent Office at
Washington never yielded their authors
enough money to pay toE the expenses
of securing the patent. Soy you Will pro-
badly never be Morse or an Edison or
Humphrey Davy Or an Eli Whitney.
There Is MOI much probability that you
will be the one out of the hundred who
achieves extraordinary success in com.
mercial or lega! or medical or literary
spheres. Nha. then? Can you have
no opportunity TO do eXploits9 l am
going 10 show that there are three op-
portunities open that are grand, thrill
Ing, lar reaching, stupendous and over
whelmins.r They are before you now.
In one, il not all three of them, you may
do explous. The three greatest things
on earth to do are 10 save a man, or
save a 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 mlustones, sits on the edge
OF some prtcipice, or in some other way
comes near demolition. 1t may be a
financial or moral or domestic or a
social or a political exigeucy. You
sometimes see it in court-rooms. A
young man has got into bad company
and he has offended the law, and he ls
arraiened. AL blushing and confused
he is in the presence OF judge and jury
and Lawyers. tie c, II be sent right On
in the wro NJ direction. He is feeling
dissraced and he is almost desperate.
Let the district attorney overhaul him
IS though ne were an old offender; let
the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to
say word Tor him, because he cannot
afford considerable fee; let the judge
give 10 opportunity for presenting the
mitigating circumstances, hurry up the
case and hustle him up 10 Auburn or
Sing Sing. Ii lie live sevent, years, for
seventy Years he will be a criminal, and
each decade oi his life will be blacker
than It's predecessor. In the interreg.
NUNS Of prison life he can get no work,
and be 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.
HE NIGHT have BEEN SAVED.
Why dou't his father come and help
him. His iather IS dead. Why don't
his mother come and help him? She IS
dead. Where are all the ameliorating
and salutary influences ofsociety? They
do not touch him. Why did not some
enc long ago in the case understand that
there was n opportunity for the exploit
which would be famous IN heaven a
-quadrillien of years after the earth has
become scattered ashes in the last whlri-
::-Wina? Ay-aY Ga LOT the district attor-
:: ney take that young man iulo bis pri-
: vssle Office unG say: "My son, I see that
YOU are the victim OF circumstances.
This is your first crime. You are sorry.
l will bring the person you wronged III
TO Your presence, and You will apologize
and make ali the reparation you can,
]. and l wllfgive You another chance"
Or: that young man is presented IN the
courtroom, and he has no friends pres
ent, and the judge says, Who is your
.ounsel." Aud he answers, Il have
uone.' Aud ,..c judge sa,s, ''Who
will take tAis ,young lnau's case"
And there IS dead halt, and 20 one
offers, and alter awhile the judge turns
TO some at:orne5, Who Aever hao a good