# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1908_S20
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

that is justified “without works.” How well the
Holy Spirit took care to leave no loophole for those
who want to teach justification by our own doings!
“Not by the works of the Law,” “without the deeds
of the Law,” “not by the Law,” “without the Law,”
“not by works,” “without works,” — such are some
of the expressions which ought to leave no doubt in
our minds that we cannot be justified by any work
of ours. J. Pu. S.

He Died for Me.

“His name is Jesus, and He died
For guilty sinners crucified;
Content to die that He might win
Their ransom from the death of sin.
No sinner worse than I can be,
Therefore I know He died for. me.”

Tue Word pictures to us the mercy and goodness
of God. Faith makes that we cling to it-with per-
fect assurance and follow the Word. — Luther.

A Pastor’s Call.

“Good morning, Mrs. Minty!’ observed the pas-
tor, as the door opened to his knock.

The door seemed to have a surly way with it,
and opened scarcely wide enough io let the pastor
in, although Mrs. Minty invited him to enter, and
brushing some invisible dust from a chair with her
apron, asked him to sit down.

The pastor saw at a glance that Mrs.
Minty was not pleased, but he could not
surmise what was the matter. He had

ness of her daughter, and at the first op-
portunity called to see the young girl.
Not seeming to notice the mother’s man-
ner, he said, “I hear that Miss Maria is
sick.”

“Yes! and she might ha’ died for all
she’s seen of you!” replied Mrs. Minty,
with an energy that almost shook the pas-
tor out of his seat. The pastor was a
meek man, and overlooking the readiness
of her reply, he asked:

“How long has she been sick? +

“Two weeks, and over,” said the
mother.

“Have you had a physician ?” inquired
the pastor.

“Had a physician? ‘What a question !
Why, the girl has been almost dead!
I wonder you got here before she was
dead! Had a physician!’ These last
words Mrs. Minty fairly ground out be-
tween her teeth with ill-suppressed scorn.

It now became evident that Mrs. Minty
on each day of her daughter’s sickness,
and the pastor’s delay in calling, had
added to her wrath, and it had ‘now
reached a degree of intensity that sug-
gested strategy or flight. The pastor re-
solved to try the former first.

-“Ah! you haye had a physician!” he
observed. “How did he happen to call?”

“How did he ‘happen to call? Welly
did anyone ever hear such a‘ question ?”

“Perhaps some one told him Miss
Maria was sick; or perhaps he was pass-
ing, and dropped in,” the pastor put in.
“Do you suppose I’d let my own ‘daughter lie

sick in the house and not send for the doctor?”
fairly screeched Mrs. Minty.

accidentally heard that day of the sick-