The Forrest City times., 1891-08-28
CHANGE FOR EXPLOITS.
CAMP-MEETlNO SUNDAY AT
 OCEAN GROVE
A6ords Dr. TalmaGe an Opportun nifty te Preach to I5,OOO People-Pathetic Stories Taken from Life-lnterest- ing and Eloquent DiscOurse.

OCEAN GROVE, N. J., Aug. 23, 1s91.- This is camp-meeting Sunday at Ocean Grove. Its celebration is always re- garded as the great event of the year at this famous religious watering place. This year the attractions of it's o Jservance have been enhanced by the presence of Dr. Talmage, who preach ed this afternoon in the Auditorium. Every seat was filled and every inch of standing room in the aisles was occu- pied, and the greatest enthusiasm pre- vailed. 1t is estimated that fully hf- teen thousand persons were able to hear the doctor, and many others were deprived of that privilege. His text was Daniel ll;32 The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. "
 Antiochus Eliphanes, the old sinner, came down with his army to desolate the Israelites, advancing one time with lO2 trained elephants, swinging their trunks this way and that, and 62,oo0 infantry, and 5000 cavalry 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 uutil the navy of Rome came III with the flash of their long banks of oars and demanded that the siege be lifted. And Antiochus Epiph- anes said he wanted time to consult with his friends about it, and Pop illus, one of the Roman embassa- dors, took staff and made a circle on the ground around Antiochus Epiphanes and compelled him to de- eide before he came out of that circle; whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of the Hebrews had submitted t. the invader, but some of them resisted val orously. as did Eleazer when he had swine flesh forced into his mouth, spit 1t out, although he knew he must die for it, ank did die for it; and others, as my text says, did exploits.
 An exp4oit 1 would define to be a herolc act, q brave feat, a great achieve ment. We'll you say, ''l admire such things, but there k no chance for me; mine is a sort of hum-drum life. Ii I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, 1 also could do exploits You are right, so lar as great wars are con cerned. There will probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the origadier- generals of this countrv wyald never have been heard of had it not been for the war.
 Nei,her will you probably become a great inventor Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out of every 5000 inven- tions 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 probab bly never e Morse, or and Edison, or Humphrey Davy, or an Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred who achieves extraordinary success in com mercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What then? Gan you have no opportunity to do exploits2 am going to show that there are three opportun- ities open that are grand. thrilling, far reaching, stupendous. and overwheln ing. 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 a man, or save a woman. or save a child.
 During the course of his life, almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground be- tween two millstones, sits on the edge of some precipice, or in some other way comes near demolition. It may be a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exigency. You sometimes see 1t Il court rooms A young man has got into bad company and ne has offended the law, and he is arraigned. All pushing and confused, he is in the presence of judge and jury and lawyers He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced, and he is almost desperate. Let the Di trict Attorney yerhaul him as though he were an old offender, let the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say word for him, because he cannot ford considera ble fee, let the judge give no opportunity for presenting the mitigating circumstances, hurry up the case, and hustle them up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal, and each decade of his life will bs blacker than its predecessor. In the interregnums of prison life he can get no work. and he is glaa to break 2 window glass, or blow up 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 ot the world.
 Why don { his father come and help him? His father is dead. Why don | his mother come and help him? She is dead Where are all the ameliorat- ing and salutary iuiue necs of society. They do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in the case understand tn Il there was an opportunity for the ex- ploit winch would be famous in heaven a quadrillion of years alter the earth has be ome scattered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the District Attorney take that young man into hls private office and say: My son, see that you are the victim of circumstances
 his is your first crime. You are sorry. l will bring the person you wronged into your presence, and you wall apologi e and m lse all the rel laratiou you can and will give you another chance" pr that youhg man Is pre- sen ed in the c urt-room, and he has no friends present, and the judge says "Who IS your counsel'" And ne ans. wcrs 'I have none And the iudge says: Who will take this dead halt, and no one offers, and after while the judge turns to some attor' ncy, who never had good case in all his life and never will, and whose ad. vocacy would be enough to secure the condemnation of in- nocence itself And the profes- sional incompetent crawls up beside the prisoner, helplessness to rescue de. spair, when there ought to be strug- gle among all the best men of the pro