Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-18
Taft HAS MISSED
A GREAT CHANCE,
CLERGYMAN SAYS
Big Opportunity for a Real Man
in Politics, Declares Rev.
w. T. S. Lumbar.

An Opportunity for a Nam" was the
subject of a sermon preached by the
Rev. w. T. S. Lumbar, pastor of the
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, yester-
day. His text was II. Cor. w. 2, ana
he spoke in part as follows:
"'Behold, now is the accepted time
is the only part of this verse for dis
cussion tonight. 1t is not violence TO
the text to say that an accepted time
is an opportune time. Opportunity Is a
chance to do.
"I believe God gives to every man
his opportunity to make good. Once, or
more, opportunity knocks at the door
of every mans life, and If man fails
the fault is not Gods. A man Is the
highest product OF Gods creative
power. Real men, men all the way
through from top to bottom. are rare.
Allison, the English historian, says all
men say of George Washington, Be
hold, a mani Gibbon. IN his Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire, de-
votes between 300 and 400 pages to the
life of Belisarius, by far h brightest
star in the crown of Justinian, the en-
peror, and concludes with this thought:
Here was a mani
Most men are looking for an oppor-
unity to succeed in business. There is
but one ambition lower than that. To
desire merely to satisfy the animal ana
physical cravings is the lowest thought
of man, and next above that is the de-
sire for money success. Few men can
be rich; perhaps none ought to be. All
can seize opportunities to be a man.
There is a splendid opportunity to-
day for a man of wealth to teach the
world a great lesson in business hon
esty; to show 1t how to scorn bribery,
graft, dishonesty, unfairness, deceit n
all other lone in the name
of successful finance; to apply the
golden rule and do as he would be done
by; to not pay a man less than the
value because he had been compelled to
sell; to not overreach because the other
was ignorant of the value of his goods;
to not defraud because the other was
not as shrewd as himself. h is an
opportunity God gives to every bust
ness man, as we'll as every working
man. Only a real mar will seize the
opportunity.
There is today a great opportunity
for a real man in politics. Those who
are nearest what a man should be are
the ones commanding the hearts of the
people the most fully. At a recent lee
ture, attended by about 1,2o0 people
composed of Newark's most thoughtful
men and women, two or three distinct
illusions to the present President of
our country were made and received In
suggestive silence, but great applause
greeted the mention of one, no longer
President, but the foremost man of
our nation. The first has lost a great
opportunity.
ITO every nan comes the opportunity
of salvation. God gives it to each alike.
No matter where he is, no matter what
he is, God gives it to all alike. He Is
no respecter of persons. He has no
preferences. He Is impartial. Many
see 1t and accept 1t. 1t is the sign of
the dawning of a tru manhood when
one Is able to discern the voice of God
in the midst of all the noise and strife
Of this world and, discerning 1t, to be
willing to follow 1t. Mar is nearest
God of all intelligent creatures, and
not to be able to discern God is to
show lack of the man God created To
hear and see and know Him Is to make
plain hat here is a man"