# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1891_S29 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) ~ The Lutheran Pioneer. A MI SSIONARY MONTHLY. PosuisHeD BY THE EVANGELICAL LurHERAN SyNoDICAL CoNFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA. R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter, ol. XIII. St. Louis, Mo., August, 1891. No. 8. God provideth for the Morrow. **Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the mor- row shall take thought for the things of itself.” Matth. 6, 34. Lo, the lilies of the field, How their leaves instruction yield! Hark to nature’s lesson given By the blessed birds of heaven! Every bush and tufted tree Warbles sweet philosophy: Mortal, flee from doubt and sorrow: God provideth for the morrow. Say, with richer crimson glows The kingly mantle than the rose? Say, have kings more wholesome fare Than we poor citizens of air? Barns nor hoarded grain have we, Yet we carol merrily; Mortal, flee from doubt and sorrow: God provideth for the morrow. One there lives whose guardian eye Guides our humble destiny; One there lives; who, Lord of all, Keeps our feathers lest they fall; Pass we blithely, then, the time, Fearless of the snare and lime, Free from doubt and faithless sorrow: God provideth for the morrow! Selected. + + oo oe Made Under The Law. Christ was made under the law in our stead. | come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am All men are under the demands of God’s holy |not come to destroy, but to fulfill,’’ (Matth. law, the sum of which is given in these words of Christ: ‘‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and With all thy mind. Thou shalt love thy neigh- bor as thyself.’ The law demands of every man that he, with a perfectly pure and un- defiled heart, love God above all things and his neighbor as himself. And because no man has fulfilled these demands, therefore all men re under the curse of the law. ‘Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things Which are written in the book of law to do ae (Gal. 8, 10). All men are under this Trible Curse, for ‘all have sinned and come ar of the glory of God,” (Rom. 3, 23); ®re is none righteous, no, not one,” (Rom. ae The law pertains, not only to the out: Conduct, but to the heart of man. ‘Take for example the fifth commandment. It says, “Thou shalt not kill.”’ From the Bible we learn that we transgress this commandment without taking human life; for ‘“‘whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer,’’ (1 John 3, 15). The commandment is transgressed by the sinful thoughts and desires of the heart. And so it is with all the commandments of God’s law. Every commandment, therefore, declares-man to be guilty, and man’s own conscience tells him that he is guilty, and the law of God thunders forth its curse and condemns man into eternal damnation. Is there no help? Yes, thanks be to God! Christ was made under the law. He was made under the demands of the law. ‘God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons,” (Gal. 4, 4. 5). The demands of the law must be fulfilled, and since we could not do this, the Son of God took our place. He, in His great love to sinners, became man and was made under the law, in order to fulfill all its demands in our stead. In the book of Pealms the promised Messiah says, ‘Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of. me, I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea thy law is within my heart,”’ (Ps. 40, 7. 8). And when He had come He said, ‘“Think not that Iam and His redemption from the curse of the law are freely offered to every sinner in the gospel. Blessed are they that accept this Gospel with true faith. There is ‘‘no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,’ (Rom. 8, 1). “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth,’ (Rom. 10, 4). ee ore - The Gospel for every Creature. “Go ye,’’ Christ said, ‘into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature’’—go to the gallows, and preach it to the man with a rope on his neck and his feet on the drop— go to the jail, and preach it to the scum of the city—go to the dens of iniquity, and preach it as freely and fully as in her highest and holiest congregation. Divine, saving, gentle mercy, turns no more aside from the foulest wretch, than the wind which kisses her faded cheek, or the sunbeam that visits as brightly a mur- derer’s cell as a minister’s study. Nay—though His the holiest of all kingdoms—while the Pharisee stands astonished to be shut out, mark how when the poor harlot approaches who, weeping, trembling, dares hardly to lift her hand to knock, the door flies open; and she enters to be kindly welcomed—washed, and robed, and forgiven. 2 + oo + 5, 17). Christ was free from sin in His nature Our Danger. and was not subject to the law of God, but He took our place under the law and perfectly ful- filled its demands for all sinners. Not only the demands of the law must be fulfilled, but its curse must be borne if sinners are to be saved. Christ was, therefore, made under the curse of the law. He took that curse upon Himself and, in the stead of all sinners, bore it in His sufferings and in His death. “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us,” (Gal. 3, 18). “Fle was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities,”” (Isa. 53). Thus He took away the cumin perfectly satisfied ] justice of God. Ses mark well, dear reader, Christ's perfect obedience to the demands of the law Our danger is spiritual sleep. The air of this world is drowsy. It is well known that those who travel in the frosts and snows of -winter often feel it difficult to keep awake: the blood is driven to the brain and vital organs, which become overloaded and oppressed. But should they lie down to sleep in such an atmo- sphere, they close their eyes to open them in this world no more; they sleep the sleep of death. The moral atmosphere of worldly so- ciety is not less chilling and benumbing to the soul than are the frosts and snows of winter to the body. Our safety depends upon obedience to the exhortation, ‘‘Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”’— Selected.