# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1908_S1
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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusuisHeD BY THE EVANGELICAL LutTimmeran Synopicat CONFERENCE OF Nortn AMERICA.

h. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXX.

The Changeless One.

“The years come in, the years go out,
The moments fly away,

But Thou, O Christ, dost never go,
For Thou hast come to stay.

Or come the days of bleakest storm,
Or brightest sunlight’s gleam,

Thow passest with me, Changeless One,
A-down life’s moving stream.”

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The Time Is Short.

The time of our life is short. This is the lesson
of the passing years. Our life is like the wind that
rushes by, like a flower of the field that flourishes,
and the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and the
place thereof shall know it no more. It is like the
grass which flourishes and grows up in the morning,
and is cut down in the evening and withers. “Go
to now, ye that say, ‘To-day or to-morrow we will go
into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy,
and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what
shall be on the morrow.’ For what is your life? It
is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and
then vanisheth away,” James 4, 13. 14. Let us,
therefore, number our days and apply our hearts
unto wisdom:

The time of grace is short, in which salvation
is offered to us in. the’*means of grace, salvation
through Him whose name was called Jesus, because
He saves us from sin. If you have not this salva-
tion through faith in Jesus, you are on the road to
everlasting woe. or it is written: “He that be-
lieveth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth not shall be damned,” Mark 16, 16. The

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time is short. Every passing year brings you nearer
the grave and the judgment. Therefore neglect not
your soul’s salvation. “To-day, if ye will hear His
voice, harden not your hearts.”

The time for service is short. Christians are
God’s servants. They are to live, not for them-
selves, but for God and their fellow-men. ‘They

‘are to be God’s witnesses and missionaries for the

salvation of sinners. As the years pass by, thou-
sands are hastening to eternity and have no hope,
for they know not the Savior. Christians must see
to it that the Savior is made known to those that
know Him not. If they will not do this work, who
else will do it? The time is short, and there is so
much work to be done, and what we have to do
must be done while it is day, before the night
cometh when no man ean work. ‘Therefore, “what:
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,”
and remember that “he which converteth the sinner
from the error of his way. shall-save a soul from
death.”

The time of our suffering is short. Christians
must pass through much tribulation. “In the world
ye shall have tribulation,’ says Christ. ‘The pass-
ing years bring. sorrows, and troubles, and alftlic-
tions, and sufferings also to God’s children., But

“it is only for a little while; only “for a small mo-

ment;” only “for a season.” ‘Therefore the apostle
says: “Our light aflliction, which is but for a
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory,” 2 Cor. 4, 17. And again
he says: “I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy fo be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us,” Rom. 8, 18.

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