# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1912_S33
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PuBLISHED BY THE EvANGELIcAL LuTnErAN Synoprcan ConFERENCE oF Nort AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFY, Epriror.

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

ST. LOUIS, MO., MAY, 1912. No. 5.

Vol. XXXIV.

It Is Finished.

Were Jesus on the cross,

The work were not completed;
But He to glory’s gone,
Above the heav’ns now seated.

Were Jesus in the grave,
Death had not been defeated;
But God has raised Him up,
And now the work’s completed!

Were Jesus not on high,
We had been doubting, fearing;
But ev'ry doubt is stilled
By Christ in heav’n appearing.

Oh! ‘tis a finished work,

And God delights to view it.

Oh! ‘tis a wondrous work,

And none but Christ could do it.

On it I rest my hope,

And doubt not my salvation.
Make known the joyful news
To ev'ry race and nation!

For God is satisfied. —

O wondrous, blessed story!
And sinners are redeemed
As Christ has gone to glory.

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Redemption Finished.

Christ came into the world to redeem
sinners. He “was made under the Law
to redeem those that were under the Law.”
He took the sinners’ place under the THE LORD'S ASCENSION.

Law und fulfilled all its demands and 9
bore. its curse which sinners deserved for their suffered that was required for our redemption, He

transgressions. As the sinners’ substitute He “be- cried out upon the cross, “It is finished!” True,
came obedient unto death, even the death of the He entered death and was laid in the grave, and
cross,” Phil. 2, §. And when all was done and it seemed as if His work was not accepted by the