The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1884, Page 41

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MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusiisHeD By THE EVANGELICAL LuTHERAN SyNopicAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., 2s second-class matter.

Vol. VI.

Over Yonder.

Oh! to be over yonder,
In that land of wonder,
Where the angel voices mingle, and the angel harp-
ers ring.
To be free from pain and sorrow,
And the anxious dread to-morrow,
To rest in light and sunshine in the presence of the
King.

Oh! to be over yonder,
My yearning heart grows fonder
Of looking to the cast, to see the day-star bring
Some tidings of the waki
The cloudless, pure day-breaking.
My heart is yearning—yearning for the coming of
the King.

Oh! to be over yonder,
The longing groweth stronger.
When I see the wild doyes cleave the air on rapid
wing,
I long for their fleet pinions,
To reach my Lord’s dominions,
And rest my pycary, spirit in the presence of the
King.

Oh! to be over yonder,
In that land of wonder,
Where life, and light, and sunshine, beam fair on
everything.
Where the day beam is unshaded,
As pure as He who made it—
The land of cloudless sunshine, where Jesus is the
King.

Oh! when shall I be dwelling,
Where the angel voices, swelling
In triumphant hallelujahs, make the vaulted heavens
ring;
Where the pearly gates are eae
And the morning star is beaming
Oh! when shall I be yonder in the presence of the
King?

Oh! when shall I be yonder?
The longing groweth stronger,
To join in all the praises the redeemed ones do sing,
Within these heavenly places,
Where the angels veil their faces,
In awe and adoration in the presence of the King.

Oh! soon, soon I’ll be yonder,
All lonely as I wander,
Yearninz for the welcome summer—longing for the
bird’s fleet wing.
The midnight may be dreary,
And the heart be worn and weary,
But there’s no more shadow yonder in the presence
of the King. —Selected.

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St. Louis, Mo., November,

The Only Place of Safety.

“God hath appointed a day in which He will
judge the world in righteousness,’’ says the
Bible. And we know that the coming of the
Lord to judgment is near at hand. ‘It is the
last time,’’ 1 John 2, 18.; ‘‘The end of all
things is at hand,’’ 1 Pet. 4, 7. It is becoming
more and more apparent that we are indeed in
the Jast times. This gives warning to all to
flee from the wrath to come. When Goi, in
the time of Noah, was about to bring judgment
upon the earth He provided a place of safety
for those who trusted in Him; so He has pro-
vided full redemption and salvation from wrath
in Jesus, the Saviour of sinners.

In the days of Noah there was but one place
of safety, and that was the ark; so there is but
one way of salvation, and that is Currsr.
There was safety in the ark for whoever was in
it; and there ts salvation in Jesus, that ‘through
His name whosoever believeth in Him shall re-
ceive remission of sins,’’ Acts 10, 43. None
could perish who were in the ark, for “the
Lord had shut them in’’; so those who are in
Christ by faith shall not perish. Being in Jesus,
the only place of safety, they can daily look
with joy to the coming of their Lord, which
every setting sun brings nearer. ‘And now,
little children, abide in Him; that, when He
shall appear, we may have confidence, and not
be ashamed before Him at His coming,’
1 John 2, 28.

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Keep Clear.

As you love your souls, beware and keep clear
of the world. The world has slain its thousands
and ten thousands. What ruined Lot’s wife?
The world. What ruined Judas? The world.
And “what shall it profit a man if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul?”’

Let Christians also remember that they are
but pilgrims and strangers in this world. Know-
ing the blessedness of having their feet firmly
planted on the Rock of Ages in these trying
and perilous times, they should also long to be
walking more in the power of their risen life in
Christ, as heavenly ones on earth. They should

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earnestly long to see their blessed Lord glorified
more in His saints, and in the gathering in of
sinners. He is worthy, alone worthy, of all
honor.

May we seek to live more to His glory, in
keeping clear of the world, and living to His
praise. The life of the Christian in these days
does much in commending the truth to others.
We should seek to keep befure us the fact of
our having to quit this present scene, to join
our adorable Lord, soon, and it may be very
soon; and we should therefore desire to get our
Lord and Master’s praise and commendation,
and to hear from His lips presently the sweet
“well done.’

The Widow's Lamp.

Some years ago there dwelt a widow in a
lonely cottage on the sea-shore. All around
her the coast was rugged and dangerous, and
many a time was her heart melted at the sight
of wrecked fishing boats and coasting vessels,
and the piteous cries of perishing human beings.
One stormy night, when the howling wind was
making loneliness more lonely, and her mind
was conjuring up what the next morning’s light
might disclose, a happy thought occurred to
her. Her cottage stood on an elevated spot,
and her window looked out upon the sea; might
she not place her Jamp by that window, that it
might be a beacon light to warn some poor
mariners off the coast? She did’so. All her
life after, during the winter nights her Jamp
burned at the window ; and many a poor fishér-
man had cause to bless God for the widow's
lamp; many a crew were saved from perishing.

That widow woman ‘‘did what she could’;
and if all believers kept their light burning as
brightly and steadily might not many a soul be
warned to flee from the wrath to come? Many
Christians have not the power to do much active
service for Christ; but if they would live as
lights in the world, they would do much. If
those who cannot preach to the old, or teach
the young, would but walk worthy of Him who
hath called them to his kingdom and glory,
how much would the hands of ministers and
teachers be strengthened!