The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-11-06
NJ Saints Sermon
At Episcopal Church.
By the Rector, Rev. Samuel Moran,
From heb. 1915.

try, g lis en- heavenly, therefore God
IL not Ashamed 70 be called their God
for He hath prepared Tor them city.
heb 11;16.
Gods great desire IL for the children
Of men, with the Holy Spirits aid, 70
resist the evil IN the world. IL God
leads any man into the midst Of tempt
alton be does 90 as q General leads his
army into the battlefield. He Is max
ing use Of men 10 destroy his foes. he
wishes Us all to be brave and strong and
pure, and this can only be by our sue
cessful resistance to evil. To haye con-
stantly before Us the miEd the desire
for 'better country, that is an heav-
enly,n and, to attain this, 20 resist such
temptations and endure such tests as
come 90 US ell. So with our Blessed
Lord Himself. It was needful that He
might be able TO suceOr them that are
tempted, and in q wider, deeper sense
it was needful. It seems to me the
very idea of Christ's life was that he
should be true man not mere phan-
tom Of humanity not merely God with
q human form, but a real, breathing,
thinking. man, such as you and ! are.
Only thus could God reveal the intimate
oneness between Himself and us, and
put himself into the position Of our Re
deemer and this meant that He must
be subject TO the limitations of our hu-
manity Ia all respects, in bodily condi-
tons and necessities, in mental peculi-
arities, in knowledge, in liability to hum
ger, disease and pain. He must be open
TO the attacks Of evil, able to feel the
attraction Of sinful courses, and able,
IL he chose even to yield 20 such attrac-
ton. Unless these things were seen in
/ Him, He would be a wonder, pOrtent,
but not q brother man, so we are per-
DEd TO see how, in lonely conflict, He
Hadst meet the gSeat temptef. And at
fter this resistance, then the victory (;
+ then the angels came and ministered
unto Him.
-, NY dear brethren, am led naturally
to these conclusions this day of All
Saints, to reviewing in cursory way
the lives Of those who, q few short
months ago, were with you in the flesh /;
men who walked with God men who
wRged q warfare against evil and con-
Quered and died In the faith they had in
Jesus. Men, who, through the power
given them from on high, resisted evil
and attained moral and spiritual pow
er which Is and must be to US who are
left examples and inspirations.
Ohe mention whom / never met,
but my predecessor, a man of God. As
our good Bishop has said Of him, HFhe
marked feature Of his life was his daily
endeavor to do his duty, leaving the
morrow In the hands Of God. AS
read Of him today, and hear of him, |
can see the imam Of Coda giant in
intellect, yet modest with il all, long
suffering, gentle, unobtrusive, an up
holder of the faith once given to the
saints positive man yet not Obtru-
Sive, a strict decentralization, yet broad
ened out by means of his christianity,
to understand men and women who had
not reached that height IN intellectual
culture as TO ecclesiastical ways which
: God had permitted him TO reach care
ful and methodical in all which he un-
dertook for the right ministration of
the word and sacraments, in the minute
details as to the structure of the sacred
edihce, especially the Sanitary and the
Altar, not emitting any one minor detail
when review such e.worker and
faithful servant Of the Master, we must
all thank God and bless Him for having
permitted as as q parish TO be so many
years under such true servant of God.
And as we think Of him enjoying the
rest Of Paradise with the noble army of
martyrs and confessors, and the uphold
ers Of the faith Of centuries, may we
leach be imbued with his spirit and be
imbued with the same love that actua-
sd him, and, in the words Of the poet,
perhaps we can say with the same spirit
- we 60 about our daily work for
Christ and the Church
II ask Thee for q thoughtful love,
Through constant watching wise,
70 meet the glad with joyful smiles,
And wipe the weeping eyes
And a heart at leisure from itself
TO sootho and sympathlze.
What 9 thought, dear brethren, is
tbs, that as he, through Christ, over
came the world. 30, likewise, he IN
whom Christ dWells win overcome the
world The Apostle gives you the Sc
crq zen be says In Gal 1l:20, 81 am
tE1 "a with Christ nevertheless
I've fot nOt !, bat Christ liveth Ii me:
and che life which ] now live IN the
nesh, I live BY the faith Of the Son OF
toq who loved me and gave Himself
for noe.
There are twelve others on our ron
r are now n Parndiao, we hope. The
Wcsried with LIES burdens, one
I1utEcote. nearly four-scoro and
p n4 many years than our late
Net rati| her mind had failed
I l.l 'V hid % beEupDorted