The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-25

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exploits"
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner,
came down three times with his army
20 desolate the Israelitcs, advancing
one time with a hundred and two ele
phants swinging their trunks this way
and that and G2, 900 infantry and 1000
cavalry troops and they were driven
back. Then, the second time, he adj
vanced 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 Antiochus
Epiphanes said he wanted time to con-
suit with his friends about it, and Pop
illus, one of the Roman ambassadors,
took n 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 re-
sisted valorously, as did Elcazor when
he had swine's flesh forced into his
mouth, spit it out, although 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 a heroic
act, brave feat a great achievement.
'Well," you say, II admire such things,
but there is no chance for me; mine is a
sort OF humdrum life. II had an Anti
ochus Epiphanes to fight, / also could
do exploits" You are right, so far as
great wars are concerned. There will
probably be no opportunity to distin-
guish 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 you probably become n
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 Morse or an Edison
or II Humphrey Davy or an Eli Whit
ney. There is not much probability
that you will be the one out of the hun
dred to achieve extraordinary success
in commercial or legal or medical or
literary spheres. What then? Can
you have no opportunity to do exploits?
j am going to show that there are three
open that are grand
thrilling, far-reaching, stupendous and
overwhelming. They are before you
now. In one, if not all three of them,
you may do exploits. The three great
est things on earth to do are to save u
man, or save 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 millstoncs sits on the edge
of some prccipicc, or in some other way
comes near demolition. 1t may be
financial or n moral or "A domestic or a
social or political exigency. You
see it in court-rooms. A
young man has got into bad company
and he has offended the law, and he is
All blushing 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
and he is almost desperate.
Let the district attorney overhaul
him as though he were an old offender;
let the ablcst attorneys at the bar re-
fuse to say n word for him because he
can not afford "a considerable fee; let
the judge give no opportunity for pre-
scnting the mitigating circumstances,
hurry up the case and h.stle him up to
Auburn or Sing Sing, If he live seven
ty years for seventy years he will be
n criminal, and each decade of his life
will be blacker than its predecessor.
In the interregnums of prison life he
can get no work. and he is glad TO break
q window-glass, or blow up n safe. or
play the highwaymen, 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 his father come and help
him? His father is dead. Why don't
mis- mother come and help him? She is
dead. Where is all the, ameliorating and
salutary influence Of society? They
10 not touch him. Why did not some
one long ago in the case understand
hat there was an opportunity for the |
exploit which would be famous in |
Heaven a quadrillion OF years after the
Earth has become scattered ashes i'm |
he last whirlwind2 Why did not the |
district attorney take the young man
nto his private Office and say; my |
'on, see that you are the victim OF
This is your first crime,
You are sorry. will bring the person
'ou wronged into your presence, and
'ou will apologize aud make all the
eparation you can, and will give you
mother chance"
Or that young man Is presented in
ha court Y.oou and ha has no friends