The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
THE WAR OF TWOS''
THE REV. w. T. S. LUMBAR'S
SERMON TOPIC.
In Discourse in Mt. Pleasant Baptist
Church He Points Out Futility of
Endeavoring to Serve Two Masters.

Tho Wa of Twos'' was the topic of the
Rev. w. T. S. Lumbar in the Moun
Pleasant Baptist Church last night.
He preached from the text, Matthew vi,
"a, mo man can serve two masters, for
either he will love the one and hate the
other. or he will hold TO the one and de-
spise the other. Ye cannot serve God
and mammon."
Man often attempts the impossible
said Mr.. Lumbar. Like the swarms of
snats and flies that hover round the lighted
candle OF a night till, with
slnged wings and scorched bodies, they
ne' gasping and dying, so man all too
often burns himself in the flames of his
conflicting emotions without realizing the
utter needlessness OF it. With all his
conpie&ity man is, after all, swon-
uerfully simple. With all his hardi-
haad and compactncss he is, not
wltbstanding. exceedingly delicate, Nov
ing along the lines of his orbit he is safe
from all harm; diyerglng, he Is liable TO be
crushed TO pieces. Making laws for 9TH
ers he often forgets he Is himself amen
able to law. His destruction comes, not so
Wilfullness. That man Is often destroyed
here the most blind cannot deny, that he
may be destroyed hereafter. the most iu-
1atuated cannot successfully refute.
Through all nature We see this great
war and struggle of twos going on. Over
many things night scarfs up its mantle and
Ifnuts out the sight, or dulls the tensity
OF the struggle, but not in this war of
twos; night and day, through summers
heat. and winters cold, its wars continue.
W. are familiar with the battle Of CEN
trifugal and centripetal forces. We know
that when these are evenly, OF nearly
the heavens. the stars, planets and moons,
comets and asteroids. move In orderly
array, but when one or the other obtains
the ascendency then there is cata strophe.
The laws Of expulsion and gravity are
ever striving for conquest. These are only
TWO OF the many forces in nature that
act and counteract on each other. When
in equilibrium the result is good, when
either overcomcs the other then there is
disaster.
II have been impressed with the law Of
twos in other matters. There are two
Gays in a mans life here that transcend
all others, and between the two all manner
of powers and influences are struggling
for mastery. These days nre those of his
birth and death. Joy clusters round the
first day and grief gathers round the Sec
ond, and joy and grief arc hostile.
There arc two great towers struggling
In this world-God and mammon For
pany ages the world felt that mamnlon
was the stronger. that it must rule, that
It's voice was the more potent here. The
Church shut her eyes and said. Jesus
hath said. the poor We always mnst have
WIN you, Jesus dl1 not Say mat, but he
did tell them they had always had the
poor with them. He also told them the
time must come when they would not hav
them. for he came to destroy mamInon.
lie would war with mannlon till it was
vanquished, and in Ills Fathers kingdom
all should be one because all were bretl1-
rem. He condemned grea. wealth, and
blasted with His adverse Judgment the doc
tTine of inequality of men as men. There
II but one solution to this war, and that
is the triumph Of Christ. for no question
is settled until it is settled right Utopian.
you say. then is every thought Of the tri-
nnph Of Cod and the entering OF the race
into liberty and truth Utopian. II men
are not one day TO cease wo%rsbipping
wealth. and are never 10 learn 70 honor q
man solely for what he Is and not for
what he has. then indeed shall his day end
in gloom and his history in destruction.
Another war 81 twos | noticed. There
is such a thing RS evil. Call it weakness.
human frsilty. environment, circumstances,
heredity-call II what you will-evll ex-
lists. Also there is such a thing as right
e%ousDess. These two are hostile 90 each
other. They are two great qualities, and
they are warning for the possession OF
your soul. One must prevail; which shall
IT be-
4 noticed. also. that there were two
ways, in one of which you must walk.
You cannot walk in both.
Another hath said, there is a way thar
seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof is death. The Master called the
broad way. Each appeals to you to walk
in It. Which shah 1t be- You cennot walk
in both, for they go different directions.
Then there is the choica of the hous you
build. One is built on the rock, the other
on the sand. What Is your foundation,
truth, righteousness. God, o. ~falsehood,
sin. evil? Finally, there Is the war OF des-
TIMES. There are two that appeal to you.
One you must choose. A man Is a fool to
expect JOY and happiness hereafter who Is
weaving into his character here indifer-
ence 10 God and disobedienee to His COM
mands. Two shall be grinding at the
mill. one taken and lhe other left. Your
destiny, what Is Il? Your %neighbors dn
not make It, God does not make It. yon
make It yourself You choose It In the
life you choose TO i've