# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1904_S49
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY

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MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LutTieran SynopicaL CoNFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXVI.

St. Louis, 2 Mo.s Tuly, 1904.

No. 7.

Sow Thy Seed.

“Sow thy seed, be never weary,
Let no fears thy soul annoy;
Be the prospect ne’er so dreary,
Thou shalt reap the fruits in joy.

“God but uses thee as sower,
Puts the seed into thy hand;
Sow thou, then, let Him be mower,
Till thou reap in fatherland.”’

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Trust in God’s Word.

By trusting in God’s Word the believer knows
that he has forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
He knows that he is saved, and he knows it by be-
lieving what God says. His assurance is based, not
on his feelings or on anything he finds in his own

_ self, but on the sure Word of God.

A Christian merchant, having lost his way while
traveling in the country, looked about him for some
house where he might get food and rest. On he
went until he came to a farm-house, where the kind
people invited him in and made him sit down.

While the refreshment was being prepared, he
looked around and noticed an old woman sitting in
a corner, with a large Bible before her, and a big
pair of spectacles on her nose. The milk and bread
were soon before the traveler, who then bent his head
to ask a, blessing upon the food. The old woman in

the corner thought he was examining the milk and

was doubting its sweetness. She therefore said,
‘‘The milk is good, man; it’s just as God sent it;
drink it up, man!”’

The traveler assured her he did not for a mo-

-ment doubt the sweetness of the milk and would

gladly ‘‘drink it up,’’ and then asked her whether
she did the same with the milk of God’s Word

which she had before her in the Bible. Did she
simply believe it and thus drink it up as her own?

“Yes, I hope I do,’’ said the old lady.

‘Well, then you know, of course, that all your
sins are forgiven, that you have peace with God:
through our Lord Jesus Christ, and are just wait-
ing for God’s Son from heaven?’?

“‘No, no,’’ said the old lady, ‘‘I cannot say all
that; I wis I could. Indeed, man, I think no one
can go as far.as all that.’’

Our friend asked her to turn to the third chapter
of John’s Gospel, and lovingly urged her to ‘‘drink
up just as God sent it’? the sixteenth verse of that
chapter: ‘‘God so loved the world, that He gave
His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’’
Then other Scripture passages were looked at, such
as, ‘‘Being justified by faith, we have peace with
God.”? ‘‘God commendeth His love that while we
were yet sinners Christ died for us.’? And-again,
“He that believeth hath everlasting life.’? ~ And,
“These things were written unto you that believe on
the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that
ye have eternal life.’

Our friend earnestly begged the old lady to take
these truths as from God Himself, whose words
they were. - They were brought home to her soul,
and she began to be glad and at the same time to
wonder she should have read her Bible so many
years and not have seen such sweet and glorious —

‘truths before.. -

A happy time these two had together over that
old Bible—our friend delighted to be thus used of
God; and the dear old woman, with tears of joy, —
thanking God that she by simple faith in His Word
had gained the assurance of the forgiveness of all
her sins and of life everlasting.” . -:. os

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