The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-04
WORK FOR L
Or. Talmage Offers Suggestions
For Great Deeds.
he'ping Humanity Out OF Great p.-,,.-
snapeinE the Destiny OF Young Men
How to Observe the Golden rail-
Good Advice Generally.

0""S the Destiny OF Young Mem
no" t. Observe the Golden Rule
Good Advice Generally.
!, AT a late camp meeting at Ocean
drove, N. j., Rev. T. Dewitt TalmaUe
preached to a great throng from the
text: The people that do know their
Voc shall be strong and do exploits.
Daniel. ii. SO. He said:
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner.
came down three times with his armv
TO desolate the Israelites, advancing
one time with 1O2 trained elephants.
swinging their trunks this way and
that, and 5000 infantry and 6 1000 cav
airy troops and they were driven back.
Then. the second time, he advanced
with 20. O0o 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 con-
u with his friends about it. and Po-
pilius, one of the Roman ambassadors,
took a staff and made a circle on the
ground around Antiochus Epiphanes,
compelled him to decide before he
came out of that circle; whereupon he
intel the siege. Some of the ws
had unlimited to the.invader, but some
OF item resisted valorously, as did
Eieazr when he had swine's flesh
forced ;nH, L.. ,.a,h emit - ont nj
thoughhe knew he must die for it, and
did die or it; and others. as my text
says. did wploits.
An explos | would define TO be a he
roic act, a bfpve feat, a great achieve
ment- "Well," you say, II admire
such things, bu there is no chance for
me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. IL
had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, I
also could do exploits" You are right,
so far as great wars are concerned.
There will probably bc no opportunity
to distinguish yourself i'm battle. The
most of the acknowledgements of this
country would never have been heard
OF had 1T not been for the war.
Neither will you probably become a
great inventor. Nineteen hundred and
ninety-nine out of every two Thousand
inventions found I'm 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 Oh a 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 I'm commercial or legal or mcdi-
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-reachiDg, stipend
Gus and overwhelming. They are be-
fore Won now. In one. IL not all three
of them, you may do exploits. The
three greatest Kings on earth to do are
to save a man, or save a woman, or saw
a child. During the course of his life
almost every man gets into an eXigency,
is caught between two fires. is ground
between two m~illstoncs, sits on the
edge of some precipice, or in some other
way comes near demolition. 1t may be
"a vi "a ihlofa a.. VI "
or a social, or a political eNigency.
You sometimes See it i'm court rooms.
Ayoung man has got into bad company
and he has offended the law. and he is
arraigned. All blushing and confused,
he is i'm the presence Of Judge and jury
and LAWYERS. He can be sent right on
in the wrong direction. lie is feeling
and he is almost desperate.
Let the district attorney overhaul him
rs though he were an old offender; let
the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse
To say a 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. IL he lives seventy
years, for seventy years he will be
criminal, and each decade of his life
will be blacker than its predecessor.
Why doesn't his father come and he'll
him? His father Is dead. Why docsn'
his mother come and help himP She i
dead. Where are all the amelioratin,
and s~alutary influences of society
They do not touch him. Why did no
SStltlt otc IpttS N.Y. y" s"N Nf'' N'',>
stand there wa an opportunity for tn
exploit which would be famous il
Heaven a quarter OF a million year
after earth has become scattered ashe
in the last whirlwind? Why did no
the district attorney take thai young
man into his private Office and say
"My son, / see that you arc the victim
of circumstances. This Is your frs
crime. You are sorry. ! will bring tn
person you wronged into your presenc
and you will apologize and make al
h PREPARATION you can and l will Civ,
you another chance"
Or that young man Is presented IL
the court room and he has no friend
present and the Judge says: "Who i
your counsel?" And he +"
have none" And the judge says
.'who will take this young mans case?
And there is a dead halt and no one OF
fers, and after a while the judge turn
10 some attorney who never had a goo'
case in all his life, and never will. ant
whose advocacy would be enough 4
secure the condemnation Of i~unocenc'
itself. And the professional incompe
tent crawls up beside the prisoner
helplcssness TO rescue despair, wheI
there ought to be . struggle among nj
the best men of the profession rs q
who should have the honor of trying 4
help that unfortunate
So there are commercial ~exigencies
very late spring obliterates the de
mand for spring ~overcoats and spring
hats and spring apparel of ali sorts
Hundreds of thousands OF people say
1T seems we are going to have M
spring and we shall 60 straight out o
winter into warm weather, and we car
get along without the usual spring at
tire Or there is no autumn weather
the heat plunging into the cold. an
the usual clothing which is a compr'
mise between summer and winter !:
not required 1t makes a difference IL
the sale of millions and millions of dol
lars of goods, and some over sanguin'
,~ht xrf n vas