# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1921_S1
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PousiisHED By THE EvANGELIcAL LutHeRAN SyNopicals ConFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

REV. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

Published monthly by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Subscription price, 50 cts. per annum, payable strictly In advance.

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at St. I

ouis, Mo,, under the Act of March 8, 1870.

Acceptance for malling at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 5, 1918,

Vol. XLIII.

New Year’s Prayer.

Another year, O Lord, we are beginning;

Give free course to Thy Word and Sacrament.

Forgive our trespasses, keep us from sinning,

Guard us against all foes unto the end. Amen.
Corunna, Ind. o0eTEMcce

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Let Us Praise Christ’s Name in 1921.

Our years pass by so fast,
Christ’s grace remains the same
And to eternity will last, —
Hence Jet us praise His name.

As life’s short road we tread,
Before our years are spent,

The old glad tidings let us spread:
A Savior God has sent.

O grant us strength, dear Lord,

And feed our ardor’s thine

To publish Thy most precious Word

And glorify Thy name. II. OsSTERIIUS.

- Sale

‘The Darkness Is Past, the True Light
Now Shineth.’’

SpiritvaL Foop ror rik New Year, Gari krep
FROM THE First Epistii or St. Joun.

Sin is the transgression of the Law. If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. ‘The lust of the flesh, the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life are not of the
Father, but are of the world, which will pass away
with its lust. The children of this world lie in
wickedness and commit sins that are unto death.
They believe not the record that God gave of His
Son, thus making Him a liar. They neither know
Him nor the believers, but hate both; for they walk
in darkness. ‘They know not whither they go, being

ST. LOUIS, MO., JANUARY, 1921.

-might live through Him.

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blinded by sin as was Cain who slew his brother,
because his own works were evil and his brother's
righteous. Hence they are murderers and do not
have eternal life abiding in them.

God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all.
He is Love. Tlerein is love, not that we loved God.
but that We loved us and sent His Son that we
God's love to us was
manifested in the Savior of the world, who has come
to take away our sin and destroy the works of the
devil. ‘The apostles heard, saw, ‘and handled the
Word of Life. which was with the Father from the
beginning and -was manifested unto us, even THis
Son Jesus Christ. ‘This is the true God and eternal
Life. He that is righteous and true laid down His
life for us, and His blood cleanses us from all sin.
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours
only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
If any man sins, we have in Him an Advocate with
the Father, :

And we have known and believed the love that
God hath to us, who hath promised, yea, given us
eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that
hath the Son of God hath this life. ‘These things
have been written to us who believe on His name
that we may know that we have eternal life. If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous-
ness for His name’s sake. Whosoever believeth that
Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God and hath
passed from death to life.

We know that we are of God. We know the
Son of God who has given us an understanding.
We hear the Gospel and have the Spirit of Truth.
We have an Unetion from the Moly One. ‘The same

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