# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1906_S36
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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Church. While other Christian denominations have
swerved to the right or to the left, our church, by
God’s grace, and not our own merits, has in all its
teachings built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, receiving nothing but the Scriptures
as our rule of faith. As the sun in the heavens
‘really is the only regulator of time, so also the Bible
is and remains our absolute and supreme rule. God
in His unmerited goodness has kept before us the
words of Christ: “If ye continue in my Word, then
are ye my disciples, indeed; and ye shall know the

The Lutheran Pioneer.

Be not Weary.

Sometimes Christians grow weary and are ready
to faint, because they see so little fruit of their
honest efforts. But we must remember that the
Lord Jesus never tells us to be successful, but faith-
ful. In fact, He cares nothing for success that is
purchased at the expense of faithfulness. We are
simply to do faithfully what He commands us to
do, and leave the results to Him. When Christ
commanded Peter on the shore of Galilee: “Taunch

OUR LORD'S ASCENSION.

truth, and the truth shall make you free,” John 8,
31. 32.

May God ever hold His protecting hand over
our beloved church and teach all its members de-
youtly to pray:

Lord, grant that we e’er pure retain
The catechismal doctrine plain,

_ As Luther taught the heayenly truth
* In simple words to tender youth!

Farrm cannot lie still and rest. It is a living,

busy thing; not dead, but living; not idle, but
busy, 5

out into the deep,” Peter’s reply was that they had
been toiling all night and had caught no fish;
“nevertheless, Lord,” he added, “at Thy word I will
let down the net.” In obedience to the word, and
trusting in that word, he faithfully did what the
Master commanded him to do, and great was his
reward. 2

Christ, before His ascension, gave His Chris-
tians the command to preach the Gospel to every
creature and to teach all nations, and He added the
promise, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the
end of the world.” In obedience to His command,
and trusting His promise, we are to labor faith-