# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1910_S57
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Che Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSION ARY MONTHLY.

PousiisHeD by THE EvancericaL Lurneran SyNopicaL ConFERENCE oF Nortu AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFYF, Eprror.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louts, Mo., as second-class matter.

Vol. XXXII.

ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST, 1910. No. 8. °'

Bought with a Price. the precious blood of Christ, the Son of God. “Ye

Lord, I am Thine, for Thou hast purchased me;
The price — Thy precious blood.

_ A sinner, lost and ruined, found and saved,
Am I; and I am Thine, O God!

My life is Thine, for Thou hast giv’n me life,
Thine own laid down for me;

And Thou the conflict, grief, and bitter shame
Hast borne, that I might live with Thee.

My soul is Fhine, that soul to Thee so dear,
That Thou didst stoop to die,

And bear Thy Father’s wrath, that it might share
Thy Father’s love eternally.

My powers are Thine; then let me gladly pay
The thankful tribute owed

To Thee; and in Thy blessed service spend
The gifts by Thy own love bestowed.

My all is Thine; be this my one desire
To serve Thee here below; :
May I tell sinners of salvation free
That they Thy love may know.

Bought with a . Price.

Salvation is free. ‘Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters, and he:that hath no money,
come’ ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price,” Is. 55, 1.
Salvation is freely ‘offered in the Gospel, to be
taken by faith without money and without price.
It is a free gift of God’s grace. “By grace are ye
saved, through faith,” says the apostle.

But salvation is not on that account a cheap
thing. No. It ‘cost something. “Ye are bought
with ‘a’ price,” ‘says*St. Paul. * Salvation was pur-
chased:-at ‘a: tremendous.price. Nothing less. than

were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver,
and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without blemish and without spot,” says
St. Peter. And through the opened door of heaven
which St. John saw there floats down to us the song
of the saints before the throne of the Lamb: “Thou
wast slain, and hast pedsemed us to God by Thy
blood,” Rev. 5, 9

Indeed, they who reject the salvation freely
offered in the Gospel without money and without
price reject-a treasure of endless value, a pearl of

great price.

A London preacher relates that at the close of

. one of his services a man that worked in a coal

mine came to him and said, “I would like to be
a Christian, but I cannot receive what you said
to-night.”

The preacher asked him why not.

The man replied: “I would give anything to
believe that God would forgive my sins, but I can-
not believe that He will forgive them if I just turn
to Him. It is too cheap.”

“My dear friend,” said the preacher, “have you
been working to-day ?”

Looking slightly astonished, the man said, “Yes,
I was down in the coal pit, as usual.”

“How did you get out of the pit?” eked the
preacher.

“The way I usually do,” said the man.
into the cage and was pulled to the top.”

“How much did you pay to come out of the
pit?”

The man looked at the preacher rather aston-
ished ,and said, sneye Of course, I didn’t pay

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