The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 13

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Che Autheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL Lutneran SynopicaL Conrerence or Norto AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. Vil.

St. Louis, Mo., April, 1885.

No. 4.

Our Confirmed Children.

Standing forth on life’s rough way,
Father, guide them;

Oh, we know not what ere long
May betide them.

’Neath the shadow of Thy wing,
Father, hide them;

Waking, sleeping, Lord, we pray,
Go beside them.

When in prayer they cry to Thee,
Do Thou hear them;

»Mid the sorrows of the road,
Do Thou cheer them;

’Mid the quicksands and the rocks,
Do Thou steer them;

In temptation, trial, grief,
Be Thou near them.

Unto Thee we give them up,
Lord, receive them;
In the world we know must be
Much to grieve them;
Many striving, oft and strong,
To deceive them;
Trustful, in Thy arms of love
Safe we leave them.
—wW. B.

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Our Peace.

Of Christ, the risen Saviour, it is said,

“He is our peace,” Eph. 2,14. He secured

our peace by His sufferings and death. ‘The
chastisement of our peace was upon Him,’’ says
the prophet. He ‘‘made peace through the blood
of His cross,’’ says the apostle. He met every
claim of the divine law and justice against the
sinner and thus made peace between the of-
fended Creator and the offending creature.
For this very purpose He came into this world
of sin and woe. Therefore the shout of the
angel host at His birth was, ‘‘Glory to God in
the highest, and on earth peace.’’ And His
glorious resurrection from the dead is the sure
proof that the work which He came to do has
been finished, that peace has been made. It
assures us that God is perfectly satisfied with
the work of His Son. ‘The God of peace
brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant’’ (Heb. 13,
20.). By bringing Him again from the dead

He absolved Him from all sin, and since it was |
our sin which He bore as our substitute, we
were absolved in Him— peace was secured for
all sinners. Therefore on the evening of the
day He came forth from the grave, the first
word He addressed to His assembled disciples |
was, ‘‘Peace be unto you’’ (John 20, 19.). It
is as if He had said, I have gone down into the
dark domain of death, I have entered the eter-|
nal world, and have come back to assure you
that every enemy is conquered, every accuser |
is silenced. Ihave stood in the presence of |
my Father, and your Father, of my God, and |

HE IS RISEN.

your God, and nothing anywhere remains
against you. No wonder the disciples were
glad; for the risen Saviour brought to them
forgiveness of sins and all that He had secured
for man. :

He still comes to us as our peace as surely
as He did come to His disciples on the day
of His resurrection. He comes to us in the
Gospel, for in the Gospel He preaches peace
tosinners. Christ ‘‘preached peace to you that
were afar off, and to them that were nigh”
(Eph. 2, 17.). The peace which the risen Sav-
iour brought to His disciples was secured for
all men. ‘Therefore He said unto them: ‘‘As
my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”
They too should be preachers of the Gospel of
peace. This Gospel is still brought to sinners
as a message of peace. All our mission work
is nothing else but ‘‘the preaching of peace”’
to poor restless sinners. Those who reject the

Gospel and die without peace cast themselves
into the eternal restlessness of hell. Do not
reject that Gospel in which the risen Saviour
comes to you, although you see Him not, and
says for your comfort, “Peace be unto you.’
Accept the Gospel! By accepting the Gospel
and thus being in fellowship with the risen
Jesus through faith, you will have peace. He
who has the Saviour has peace; for ‘“HE 18
OUR PEACE.”’

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No Condemnation.

When in the night of Israel’s deliver-
ance from Egypt the Lord smote all the
first-born in the land, there was security
from all harm for all the children of Israel
who had sheltered themselves,within the
blood-sprinkled door-post; they were in
the place of safety, where there was ‘‘no
condemnation.”?’ And so now; the blood
of the Lord Jesus shelters all who believe
in His name, and the risen Saviour is the
mercy-seat—the sure hiding-place—for all
who flee to Him; and whoso cometh to
Him He will in no wise cast out, (John
6, 37.). He having been made a curse for
us—having borne our sins in His own
body on the tree, and put away sin by
the sacrifice of Himself, and having risen
from the grave as the conqueror over all our
enemies—no anger, no wrath, nothing con-
demnatory remains; so that the apostle can
boldly say, and with him all true believers can
say, ‘‘Who shall lay anything to the charge
of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that
died, yea rather, that is risen again,” Rom. 8,
33—34. :

Separation to Christ.

Mary on the morning of the resurrection was ~
so occupied with the Lord, that it was no af-
fliction to her that she could not have the world.
with all its follies instead of Him! When will
Christians learn wherein consists the true power
for a holy separated life and walk? Separation
unto Christ is the only true way of being sepa-
rated from this world.