# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1885_S45
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Vol. VII.

The Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LurHeRAN SYNODICAL CONFERENCE or NortH AMERICA.

St. Louis, Mo., Dece

R. A. BISCHLOFF, Editor.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter.

mber, 1885.

No. 12.

_.. ARK! what mean those holy voices
Sweetly warbling in the skies?

Sure the angelic host rejoices,

Loudest hallelujahs rise.
Hallelujah !

Listen to the wondrous story,

Which they chant in hymns of joy:

‘¢ Glory in the highest, glory,

Glory be to God most high!
Hallelujah !

‘< Peace on earth, good-will from heayen,

Reaching far as man is found ;

Souls redeemed, and sins forgiven,

Loud our golden harps shall sound.
Hallelujah!

‘©Christ is born, the great Anointed !

Heaven and earth His glory sing!

Glad. receive whom God appointed

For your Prophet, Priest, and King. __
Hallelujah !

Hasten, mortals, to adore Him,

Learn His Name, and taste His joy,

Till in heaven you sing before Him:

Glory be to God most high!
Hallelujah !

Let us learn the wondrous story
OF our great Redeemer’s birth ;
Spread the brightness of His glory,
Till it cover all the earth.
Hallelujah !
—John Cawood.

The Plan of Salvation.

At the manger of Bethlehem you can learn
the plan of salvation. ‘God so loved the world,
that He gave His only-begotten Son.” What
more could He do? ‘‘ That whosoever’’— that is,
you, everybody, anybody that—‘‘ believeth in
Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.”’ It is not said that God has given His Son
to all who will keep His law, for that we could
not do, and therefore the gift would be avail-
able to none of us. But the great God has
given His Son to the whole sinful world that
“‘whosoever believeth in Him’’ should not
perish.

The holiness of God demands the punish-
ment of the sinner; but the love of God has
provided a Saviour. God sent His own Son,
born of a woman, to stand in the room and
stead of our guilty race. God laid on Him
the iniquity of us all, so that He bore the
punishment due to our transgressions, being
made a curse for us. Sin is punished in the
person of the Christ and mercy is extended to
the guilty. Will you reject this mercy and be
eternally lost? Trust in this Saviour is the
only way of eternal happiness. But it is also
the certain way. Believe, trust in that Saviour
of Bethlehem as your Saviour and Redeemer
from all your sins, and you, yes, you, who de-
serves hell, shall never perish, but have—mark,
have, everlasting life. Have it now—in Christ,
in God’s Son, and with Him when He comes.
«The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord’’ (Rom. 6, 23.).

——— +s +o eo

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas! Why do we keep it with
so much joy and gladness? Is there a little
child any where who does not know that it is
the day when our dear Lord was born? ‘“ Christ
the prince of glory slept on Mary’s knee.”’ The
whole beautiful story is familiar to every one
of us, and the sweetest thing about Christmas
is that it belongs to every one of us, to the
poorest as well as the richest, for the infant
Jesus came to save the whole world.