The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-15
SIN TO WORRY
LUMBAR breaches
SERMON OF CHEER.
To Let Business of Fears of Poverty
in Old Age Worry Christian Worse
Than Folly, He Says.

Business worries may yex you,Y said
the Rev. w. T.. S. Lumbar, In his SER
mon yesterday morning at the Mt. Pleas
ant Baptist Church. MANY have said to
me. I am afraid of an old age of pow
erty.' Fol the Christian who is manfully
trying to perform life's duties. such worry
is worse than folly 1t is a sim"
Mr.. Lumbar was preaching on docs
God Comfort the Lonely? He went on to
say in part:
Perhaps the one thing, more than any
other. that the human heart longs for is
comfort. From the cradle to the grave we
need consolation. We may not always
know what we want, we may not always
sense our need, but there is ever the long
Ing, spoken or otherwise, for comfort.
The SORROWS of life are manifold, its
trials are m~ultitudinous, it's griefs are
many. With a smile we cover up the
heartache, and often times would resent
the mere thought of revealing the least OF
1t to our dearest friends, and SO we pass
on our weary and lonely way unhelped
and comforted when we might have both
were 1t not for pride. Yet sorrow is
necessary for our fullest de~yelopment.
however much we may shrink from 1t.
Without the lessons of sorrow we can
neither give nor receive comfort. We are
so constituted that we learn through con-
trasts.
There are two ways by which God COM
forts. The first is by His promises. But
for a promise to bring comfort the word
of the promiser must be believed. You get
no help from the promise of one you do
not trust. Some may doubt there can be
any help in the mere unsupported promise
of any, but there Is a world of comfort
in IL.
You have sought comfort among your
friends. among your relatives, and have
not found 1t. You asked for a fish and
they gave you a serpent, you asked for
bread. and they gave you a stone, for that
is what every one gives who does not give
the right thing when comfort Is asked.
You have turned away from the legitimate
source and sought comfort illegiti-
as one always does when he seeks
comfort in way, or from places
he ought not. Your sin hurts you. the
pains go in deep. 1t matters not that no
one knows except you and your God,
for the soul that is dead to its honor
must suffer as keenly for the loss Of its
purity through secret sin as though It
were a known sin. But let the promise of
hath an advocate with the Father. Jesus
Christ the righteous. Sin is put to rout
when you believe the promise of God.
Perhaps you have grown weary of the
duties OF your Christian and church life.
You have not been appreciated as you
think you should be, The struggle of do
ing good seems iercer than you think 1t
ought. You are ready to sink by the
roadside. oh, soul, take another of Gods
promises, born of the long tried soul Of one
Of His servants; when all else failed, and
all other strength and effort became
weakness he said. II can do all things
through Christ which strengtheneth me"
That is your hope. The arm of flesh cam
not always avail. Physical prowess Is not
n sure champion is Spiritual struggle; but
God is
Multitudes pass through life, losing half
Of Its joys, because of worry over money
matters
discussing such questions, many of their
remarks had been full of gloom and I'M
rest. IT was over against the. temple. Just
then wns heard a rustic In the air. and n
whirr OF wings, when a flock Of pigeons
lighted in the street and began to feed
on the seeds and crumbs Jesus said.
Your Father feedeth the sparrows; and
We are of more value than many sparrows;
viii He not much more feed you" Let
these, and many more, sweet, true words
be a comfort and a help to your heart
and souls.
Examples, both from the Bible and from
history could be given without number
showing how He comforts through His
| providences. Consider how the promise of
God to Adam, as He thrust him out OF
the garden, was verified In His provi-
dences. Or Abraham. as God called MIN
out of Chaldea. Ways, that no human
eye could see, were opened up before him
and he was brought forth In safety. real
izing all that had been promised. His
heart found peace when he believed God,
1t found satisfaction In His providential
care.
n weary company % ultI duA WOilSIl aihi
children had mar he'd man miles. They
were weary only as to the body. for their
souls were jubilant, and they We're sing
ing their national songs for the first time
in many long years. A generation before,
upheld only by the promise of God, they
had s~erenely refused to sing the songs OF
Zion in a strange land. but now. led Of the
divine providence, they were returning
to their beloved Jerusalem. and the air
was vocal with the sound Of the sweetest
cornet and harp. and with human voices
MS they sang praises unto God. So may it
he with you If You will let Him com
fort you as a mother cop1forteth her
full comfort to the orc who had made the
soul and knoweth 1t. May God comfort you
this morning. II in any heart there be any
pain or sorrow, and give you peace.