# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1888_S5 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) Che Autheran Pioneer. A MISSIONARY MONTHLY. PuBLISHED BY THE EvaNGcELIcaL LurHERAN SyNnopicaL CoNnFERENCE or Nortn AMERICA. R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor. Entered at the Post Oftice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter. Vol. X. St. Louis, Mo., February, 1888. No. 2. Satisfied. O Jesus! Friend unfailing! How dear art Thou to me! Are cares or fears assailing? I tind my strength in Thee! Why should my feet grow weary Of this my pilgrim way? Rough though the path and dreary, It ends in perfect day! Nought, nought I court as pleasure, Compared, O Christ, with Thee! Thy sorrow without measure Earn’d peace and joy for me! I love to own, Lord Jesus! Thy claims o’er me divine, Bought with Thy blood most precious, Whose can I be but Thine! Why should I droop in sorrow ? Thou’rt ever by my side! Why, trembling, dread the morrow? What ill can e’er betide? If I my cross have taken, ’Tis but to follow Thee; If scorn’d, despised, forsaken, Nought severs Thee from me! O worldly pomp and glory! i Your charms are spread in yain! I’ve heard a sweeter story! I’ve found a truer gain! Where Christ a place prepareth, There is my loved abode! There shall I gaze on Jesus! There shall I dwell with God! ‘| wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised Where He is and as He is. thy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners,’ 1 Tim. 1, 15. Everything which secures salvation for you is already done—yea, has been done since Jesus said, ‘It is finished,’’ and died. ‘‘ Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou’shalt be saved.’’ “His Love to Me.” The good Samaritan, of whom the Gospel tells us, came to the man who had fallen among thieves—just where he was. He did not wait till the poor wounded man had helped himself. No. He took him just as he was and where he was and rescued him from death. So Jesus, the Saviour of sinners, comes to sinnersin the Gospel just where they are, where sin puts man—far, far away from God. He ministers to them just as they are. He asks of none to do better, to feel better, to be better before He helps them. No. From the riches of His grace He ministers to them just as they are. They need life, for they are dead in sin, and He gives them eternai life: ‘‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life,” John 8, 14. 15. They need to be forgiven. Their sins are against them and they are verily guilty. He offers them a full, free forgiveness: ‘‘ Through this Man (Jesus) is preached unto you the for- giveness of sins; and by Him all that believe are justified from all things,’ Acts 13, 38. They need their conscience and heart to be set at rest, for they are guilty, miserable and wounded. He heals them perfectly: ‘“‘He was To an invalid friend, who was trembling and doubting, a minister once said: ‘‘When I leave you I shall go to my own residence, if the Lord will; and when there the first thing that I ex- pect to do is to call for a baby that is in the house. I expect to place her on my knee, and louk down in her sweet eyes, and listen to her charming prattle; and, tired as lam, her pres- ence will rest me, for I love that child with an unutterable tenderness. ‘«But the fact is she does not love me; or to say the most for her, she loves me very little. If my heart were breaking under a burden of crushing sorrow it would not disturb her sleep. If my body were racked with excruciating pain it would not interrupt her play with her toys. If I were dead she would be amused in watch- ing my pale face and closed eyes. If my friends came to remove the corpse to the place of burial she would probably clap her hands in glee, and in two or three days totally forget For every tribulation, For every sore distress, In Christ I’ve full salvation, Sure help and quict rest. No fear of foes prevailing! I triumph, Lord, in Thee! O Jesus! Friend unfailing! How dear art Thou to me! “Our Father.” Selected. for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed,” Isa. 53, 5. The drunkard, the thief, the lover of this world must not make themselves better before Christ will save them. No. They can never do it. The drunkard, and the thief, and every other sinner, must Jearn that he is a lost man— actually lost; that he has already done what certainly shuts him out from the presence of a holy’God, and is now, as he is and where he is, her papa. Besides this she has never brought me in a penny, but has been a constant expense on my hands ever since she was born. Yet, although I am not rich in this world’s posses- sions, there is not money enough in this world to buy my baby. How is it? Does she love me or do Tlove her? Do I withhold my love until I know she loves me? And am I waiting for her to do something worthy of my love before extending it to her?”’ ‘©Oh, I see it!’’ said the sick man, while the tears ran down his cheek, ‘‘I see it clearly; ~ Although I cannot say ‘‘Our Father,” as we shall be able to say it one blessed day, I will, nevertheless, like a little child, lisp it; if I can not believe it in all its fullness, I will not let it be an untruth and say ‘‘No”’ to it; I will daily endeavor to spell it, until I am able to repeat this word, “Our Father,’’ after Christ; whether I do it well or not, be it stammering or atuttering.—Tzuther. under condemnation. He must learn that noth- ing that he can possibly do can at all deliver him from his awful position. Precious soul, whoever you be, in this con- dition, nothing but what the Son of God has done for, your deliverance can save you from sin and rescue you from eternal damnation. ‘Jesus died for sinners; He therefore “‘receiveth sinners.” ‘‘This is a faithful saying, and wor- it is not my love to God, but God’s love to me I ought to be thinking about; and I do love Him now as I never loved Him before.”” From that time his peace was like a river. “We love Him because He first loved us.”” > -caP oo Gop had one Son on earth, without sin, but never one without suffering.— Augustine.