The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 29

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusiisHep BY THE EvancEnicaL Lurueran SynopicaL Conrerence or NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. VII.

“Bought with a Price.”

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 Lam Thine, O God.

My life is Thine, for Thou hast given 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 Thine, 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 time is Thine; O let its hours be spent
In work of grateful love;

In service true, however humble, paid
With joy, as angels do above.

My joys are Thine; for Thou to give me joy,
Didst sorrow bear, and woe;

O let my chiefest joy be in Thy smile,
Thy love while journeying here below.

My griefs are Thine, for Thou canst sorrow know;
And in Thy name of love :

I'll safely trust; thro’ sunshine or in shade,
-Thou leadest to my home above.

My allis Thine, be this my one desire,
To serve Thee here below;
And, by Thy Spirit daily taught, Thy will
To love, and Thee Thyself to know.
—Selected.

Christ our Salvation.

Our salvation is told out in a single Nume,
that needs only to be embraced by faith; that
name is Jesus (Acts 4, 10—12.). The sinner
‘ready to perish,” has but to turn the eye of
faith to the uplifted Saviour, And he lives—
lives everlastingly (John 3, 14.).

Thank God, this is so! for no other scheme
would have suited our case, seeing it is one of
utter ruin and helplessness, Having ‘‘all
sinned and come short of the glory of God;’?
being ‘‘dead-in trespasses and sins, children of
wrath ;’’ with ‘‘every mouth stopped, and all
the world become guilty before God;” what

St. Louis, Mo., August, 1885.

No. 8.

hope could there be for us, if a single effort on
our part were necessary for salvation, since we
are ‘sold under sin’’ (Rom. 7, 14.), and already
“subject to the judgment of God.”’

But, eternal praise to the God of love! It
was when we were yet sinners Christ died for
us (Rom. 5, 8.); and His voice is heard calling
us to life in the precious words, “Look unto
me, and be ye saved”’ (Isa. 45, 22.). And He
who speaks describes Himself as ‘‘a just God
and a Saviour’’ (verse 21.). In the cross of
Christ we see justice satisfied—all its righteous
claims fully met, and mercy flowing out to the
guilty sinner. If ‘you cry from the depths of
your need, ‘‘ What must I do to be saved?”’
the voice of love and truth replies, ‘‘ Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved’? (Acts 16, 31.). The sinner believes,
and he is saved—he looks to Christ as his
Saviour, and he lives. It is not the look that
saves, but the object looked at—Christ, the
living Saviour of the lost, in whom faith rests.

How simple is the manner of taking this
great salvation! May the Lord help you to
take that simple believing look at Christ as
your Saviour, and thus be now and for ever
saved.

given from His bosom; Christ bruised on the
tree; Christ raised from the dead; Christ
crowned on the throne of the Majesty in the
heavens. And yet man’s legal heart can pre-
sume to ask, ‘‘ Js that all?”’ r

The Eternal Son of God came down into this
dark and sinful world; took upon Him the
form of a servant; emptied Himself, and made
Himself of no reputation; went to the cross,
and there endured the wrath of a sin-hating
God,—the wrath which else should have con-
sumed us in the flames of an everlasting hell!
No created intelligence can ever conceive what
it cost God to hide His face from His only
begotten and well-beloved Son; or what it cost
that blessed Son’ to undergo the awful judg-
ment of God,—to be made sin for us. And
yet the one for whom all this was done can
presume to ask, ‘‘ Is that all?””

——+ +o >

Going Over.

A friend of mine, writes a pastor, lost all his
children. No man even loved his family more,
but the scarlet fever took them away one by
one. The poor stricken parents wandered from
one place to another. At length they found.
their way to Syria. One day they saw an
Eastern shepherd come down toa stream and
call his flock to cross; but they came down to
the brink and seemed to shrink from it, and
he could not get them to respond to his call.
He then took a little lamb, put it under one
arm, and then took another lamb and put it
under the other arm, and thus passed into the
stream. The old sheep plunged in after the
shepherd, and in a few moments the whole
flock was on the other side. The father and
mother, as they looked on the scene, felt that
it taught them a lesson. They no longer mur-
mured, but began to look up and forward to
the time when they would follow the loved
ones they had lost. If you have loved ones
gone before, remember your Shepherd is call-
ing you to set your affections on things above.

—— Po

“Is That All.”

How often have we heard the above question
asked, when God’s way of salvation has been
set forth in the very language of holy Scripture!
“Tg that all??? How little do those who ask
such a, question know what it sets forth! They
know not that it involves a positive insult to
God and His Christ. ‘‘God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that who-
soever believeth in him might not perish, but
have everlasting life’ (John 3,16.). ‘“Through
this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of
sins; and by him all that believe are justified from
all things, from which ye could not be justified
by the law of Moses’’ (Acts 13, 38. 39.).
‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ und thou
shalt be saved, and thy house’’ (Acts 16, 31.).

Here we have God’s blessed way of salvation
set forth, in all its divine and heavenly sim-
plicity. Christ is God's salvation, —Christ

Tue lips of Jesus and His only can speak
peace to a troubled soul. Until He, and He
‘alone is listened to, true peace is unknown.