# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1910_S1
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

~The Zutheran Pioneer.

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A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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Pubuiisuep BY THE EvanceticaL Lutmeran Synopical ConFERENcCE oF Nonit AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFY, Epironr.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as

ST.

LOUIS, MO., JANU

second-class

matter.

ARY, 1910.

God With Us.

God is with us! O what pleasure
Does the glorious thought afford;
Here is love beyond all measure,
Alleluia! Praise the Lord!

God is with us; 0
Strike again the joyful ‘chord!

Through the years now gone forever,
He was always near His own,
Aiding them in each endeavor,
While they gloried in His throne;
Ever faithful,
Owning Him. the Lord alone. :

All along His hand was guiding
In the dark and in the light;
For their constant need providing
By His all-sufficient might;

They could trust Him,
Knowing well His ways are right.

Precious are the gifts they left us,
Gained through Him who hears our prayer;
Passing years have not bereft us
Of the heritage we share;
May we ever
Make the things of God our care!

God is with us! Lift your voices,

All His faithfulness proclaim;

Earth with heaven again rejoices;

Through all ages still the same —
God is with us!

Alleluia! Praise His name!

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God Present With Us.

As we, with the new year, enter upon a new
period of life, it is well to remember that God is
at all times present with us. This thought will

lead us to walk as in the sight of Him of whom
it is written: “Thou, God, seest me.” The man
who hides away from the eyes of men to do his
deeds of darkness may think himself unseen, but
the eye of the ever-present God is upon him all
the while. From that eye nothing can be hidden.
The boy in the store, who was tempted to do wrong
because his master was not in was right when he
replied, “My Master is always in.” God is not far
off. He is present with us. He is everywhere, at
all places. No one can hide from Him. “Am I
a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar
off? . Can any hide himself in secret places that
I shall not see him? saith the Lord,” Jer. 23,
23. 24. “See, then, that ye walk circumspectly,”
says the apostle. That is, we should walk cau-
tiously, with watchfulness, avoiding sin and: walk-
ing as the children of the ever-present God.

God is present with us. This truth is full of
comfort for all true Christians. In Christ Jesus
God has become their loving Father. They trust
His loving-kindness, and rejoice to know that He
is present with them wherever they may be. He
was with them in the past year, and He will not
forsake them in the new year, but will continue to
be with them unto the end of their journey, guiding
them aright and proving Himself a very present
help in all trouble. They need not fear what an-
other day or another year may bring forth, for
they know that their times are in God’s hand, and
that He is directing all things for their best, namely;
for their eternal salvation. They have God’s Word,
and they know that even in the dark hour of death
God is present with them. Every true believer can
say with the psalmist: “Though I walk through

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