The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-27
REV. WEBER
WILL GO TO
!. J conn. CHURCH
FIRST CHRISTIAN PASTOR PLANS
TO LEAVE PENeAcoLA FOR
BRIDGEPORT ABOUT MAY IS.

An especially strong sermon deliv-
cred on last Sunday by Rev. n. d.
Weber. who for the past two years
or more has been pastor Of the First
Christian church in Pensacola was in
the nature Of . farewell Easter mess
age to his congregation.
Rev. Mr.. Weber expects TO leave
Pensacola about May Is and win go
to Bridgeport, Conn, where he will
assume the pastorate OF church. Dur
Ing his residence in Pensacola Rev.
Mr.. Weber has made many friends
who regret his departure and whose
very best wishes win follow him to
his new work: Following are some
excerpts from his Easter sermon:
IF we turn to the oldest OF written
revelation. Genesis the book Of begin
nings, we may read. that the Lord
God formed man out Of the dust OF
the ground and breathed into his nos
trils the breath OF life and man be-
came a living soul. Science has never
disputed this description Of mans
creation or his nature. Man is liv-
ing being: he has intelligence He Is
Godlike in some respects: he IL animal
and devilish In other aspects. In Cor.
11:7 man is said to be the image and
glory Of God.
You may further read that the
Lord God took Adam and put him in
the garden Of Eden to dress ana Keep
It And the Lord God commanded the
man saying. Of every tree Of the gar
den thou mayest freely eat. but of
tho tree OF the knowledge Of good and
evil thou shalt not eat Of it, for in the
day that thou dost eat thereof, thou
shalt surely die. (Gen. 2:15, 16, 17).
The Hebrew idiom Is somewhat Pc
culiar hero and to translate it literally
II would read: OF every tree Of the
garden eating thou shalt eat but Of
the tree Of the knowledge of good and
evil thou shalt not eat Of 1t for in the
day that thou eatest thereof. dying
thou shalt die.' .
In our language the eating OF the
fruit Of the trees permitted would sus-
tain his life and the eating Of. the
fruit OF the tree prohibited would
cause his death.
According to the Genesis account
Adam and Eve disobeyed God and in
Gen. SIS we read, and all the days
that Adam lived were $50 years and
he died. II Gods word was not then
and there fulfilled. it never was and
never viii be. God had said for the
first time. Thou shalt not. Man had
chosen to disobey. Az in the days OF
Moses when he stood before the chill
dren Of Israel and said unto them
Behold have set before you life and
death: choose life that We may live.
It II assumed In both these instances
that man could choose to obey. could
obey and thereby live.
~But . different situation faces us.
Death has passed on AL men. 1t is a
great outstanding fact. Name it
something else, deny II. avert our
faces from It and It il all the same.
The great tree crashes down In the
forest. and lies lifeless and prone on
the earth that has absorbed billions
Of IT. kind and win absorb It. The
old bear curls himself up In his noun
tain cave for his last sleep. The
flower We admired but yesterday. Is by
the psalmist compared to man in the
briefness OF its existence.
And yet We are here because we
believe . marvellous story. OF all
the myriads Of men that have fallen
asleep. one has awakened and the
wonderful book says he win never