The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-03
A SERMON BY A BISHOP
Bishop Coleman Talks
About the Az NOR of the
Chris tian Soul.

Bishop Coleman. OF Delaware, preached
yesterday morning at Grace p T. Church.
He said:-..Put on the whole armor Of
God There is hardly any figure of
speech employed in Holy Scripture more
appropriate than this one, when # speaks
to rs OF our Christian life as continual
warfare. We are always conscious Of a
conflict within us. between what we want
to do and what we ought 10 do. There is
as life, and the issue is a momentous one,
being none other than the life or death
Of a soul.
ST. PAUL THE FIGHTER
NOW for advice IN the conduct OF this
war we would not go to young mex
perienced warrior or 70 an old warrior
who had failed time and again Whom
shall we go tor Whom better than ST.
Paul. No one ever experienced SO much
spiritual conflict as ST. Paul except our
own dear Lord himself What is the ad-
vice we receiver In the first place we
must put on the whole armor of God.
Some people go into warfare without any
armor, trusting to the rectitude Of their
cause. What would you think OF nation
that sent its army weaponless to battle
trusting TO the rectltude of its cause
And yet there are souls going into war
fare without armor.
"The next question which meets us is
what sort OF armor is needed. We must
have on not only armor. but the armor OF
God l dwell on this because we are to-
day to arm some in the whole arrn0r Of
God. The soul that Is struggling to win
this fight and insure itself eternal peace
will surely fan II II does not put On the
whole armor of God
BAPTISM AND THE SACRAMENT
Holy baptism is part OF the armor Of
God and SO IS confirmation. There has
never been period in the history of the
Catholic Church when the rite OF
confirmation was not admins
tered; SO people who. today despise
this rite of confirmation must remember
that they are speaking lightly and i'm
piously of a part of Gods own armor.
Only one other part Of this armor can
speak OF, and that is the Holy Sacrament.
You remember what our Lord said of the
Sacrament The soul that takes the
Sacrament after due preparation, with
peuitence and humility, Is putting on
Gods armor St Paul tells Es TO put on
the whole armor OF God. st. Paul is very
explicit about the whole armor and
repeats over and over again.
The soul that goes into this
combat with such determined
foes arranged against it, should not be
satisfied with bit Of armor here and a
DIT there, but sho uld thoroughly equip
itself by participating in all the sacra-
ments. There is a story told Of old
Achilles who was invulusrable except in
one point, his heel, when he was struck
there he was slain. So with men. Each
of us has weak point. What we should
do, Is cultivate every good habit and
extirpate every evil one We must have
on from head to foot the whole armor of
God, so that at the last when the battle
is over and we are called from the battle
field we may be admitted into Gods pres
ence and partake of His peace"
After the sermon the rite Of confirma-
tion was administered to six candidates
Polls OPEN TOMORROW Il M.
POLLS CLOSE i. NJ.
Be sure you get your anti McPhiltips
pastors before goa 90 TO the polls.