# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1909_S61
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

The Lutheran Pioneer.

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mens and the mixed choir, under the able leadership
of Student Calvin Thompson. A long service, to
be sure, but none too long for the large number
that had congregated in the humble church to join
in heartfelt thanks and praise to a good God for
the wonderful blessings bestowed. It was a joy in-
deed to every Christian heart to hear such devout
confessions, solemn vows, and fervent prayers from
the lips of the young converts. From the depth of
their hearts all therefore could joyfully sing the
grand hymn: “Now Thank We All Our God.”

sort of musingly as I thought of the case in hand:
‘Well, it’s all so; the wages of sin is death.’

“He whirled around and stared at me fiercely,
saying: “What do you mean by that? Are you try-
ing to preach to me?”

“<Not a bit of it” I answered; ‘what are you
getting excited about? That’s in the Bible. Don’t
you think it’s true?’

“He paused and studied several seconds, and
then said slowly: ‘Yes, itis true. I know it’s true.
And I haven’t been living as [ ought to; I know

Student Calvin Thompson and Catechumens at Mansura.

May the Lord grant grace to these young con-
firmed Christians to ever hold fast that which they
have, and may He continue to bless the preaching
‘of His Word in the little church with the cross to
the everlasting glory of His name and for the sal-
vation of many souls! Ep. 8.

A Word in Season.

“One day,” writes a Christian lawyer, “I had
been working with another lawyer over a case; and
when we finally wrapped up the papers and he was
ready to leave, the words slipped out of my mouth

that. There are a lot of things I have been doing
that IT wouldn’t dare to have my wife know. I’m
going to try to cut them all out. I don’t want the
wages.’ ”

The words spoken by the Christian lawyer
proved a word in season. They roused a sleeping
conscience, and gave him the opportunity to tell
his friend how to be made free from sin and its
wages and how to obtain the gift of God, which is
eternal life.

“The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord,”
Rom. 6, 23.