The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1886, Page 9

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The Autheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

Pusuisuep By THE EVANGELICAL LuTHeRAN SYNODICAL ConFERENCE oF NortH AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor. ;

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

Vol. VIII.

(For the ‘*Lutheran Pioneer.’’)

Giving up the Heart to God.

Sout, what return has God thy Saviour
For all He gives thee day by day?

O hast thou In thy gift a favor

hat can delight and please Him? say!
The best of offerings He requires;

Give Him thy heart with its desires.

Give God His own, if aught thou’rt giving;
Say, soul, to whom belongs the heart?
Can Satan—he who hates the living—

Or any creature claim a part?—

To Thee alone [ will assign,

O Lord, my heart and all that’s mine.

Accept the gift which Thou requirest,
The first-fruits of my heart, O God!
The offering Thou so much desirest,
And dearly paidst for with Thy blood;
To Thee alone I now resign

My heart, to be for ever Thine.

Whom should I give my heart’s affection

But Thee, who givest Thine to faith?

Thy fervent love is my protection ;

Lord, Thou hast loved me unto death.

My heart with Thine shall ever be

One heart throughout eternity.
K. F. Lochner, 1673.
Tr. by A. C., 1886.

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Where To Cook.

The picture in this number of our paper
illustrates the Bible story- recorded in the 21st
We there read that the
children of Israel spoke against God and against
And God sent fiery serpents among
the people, and they bit the people, and many
died. And the people said to Moses, We have
sinned, pray to the Lord that He take away
the serpents from us. And when Moses prayed
to God for the people, the Lord said, Make a
serpent and set it upon a pole; every one that
is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
They were not to look to Moses, nor to the
priest, nox to their wounds, but simply to the
uplifted serpent, and thus believing the prom-

chapter of Numbers.

Moses.

ise of God they were to find health and life.

That serpent of brass which Moses lifted up
the wilderness was a type of the Saviour.
Christ said to Nicodemus, ‘As Moses lifted up
€ Serpent in the wilderness, even so must the

St. Louis, Mo., March, 1886.

Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever be-
lieveth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life,” (John 3, 14. 15). In the
holy season of Lent we follow the Saviour on
His way of sorrows and suffering to Calvary
where He is lifted up on the cross as the Lamb
of God bearing the sins of the world and thereby
procuring for all sinners forgiveness of sins
and life everlasting. The sinner who wants
healing from sin and redemption from eternal
death is simply to look with the eye of faith to
that Saviour who is lifted up on the cross, that
‘whosoever believeth in Him should not per-
ish, but have everlasting life.’’ “ Believeth
in Hus,’ not in Moses, nor in good works, nor
in reforms, but in Him alone. The devil is well
pleased if he can make the awakened sinner look
at anything rather than Christ, for then he can
keep the soul in darkness or in the delusion of
a false hope. Hence his aim always is to get
the thoughts of an awakened sinner occupied
about himself, his prayers, his good works, his
pious resolutions, or his feelings. But none of
these things were lifted up on the cross, no!
Christ was lifted up on the cross, and it is
Christ only who saves. Look to Him, believe
in Him, and be saved.

say, ‘I do not know that I have looked in the
tell us to be looking at our look, but to be
looking at Christ. There were old eyes, and
there were young eyes, that looked at the

derness; there were some with clear vision;

who saw it only from a distance; but the rec-
ord is, ‘‘It came to pass, that if a serpent had
bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of
brass, he lived,’’ (Num. 21, 9).

So it is still. Jesus, the crucified Saviour,

unto ME and be

give you rest,” (Matt. I
say anything about the way of coming,
the poor sinner comes groping,
ing, only let him come, and he

But just here some troubled sinner might

right way.”” There it is again. God does not

brazen serpent lifted up by Moses in the wil-

and others with dim vision; there were some
who were near by and had a full view of the
uplifted type of Christ, and there were others

comes to sinners in the Gospel and says, “Took
saved; ‘‘Come unto ME, all
ye that labor and are heavy Jaden, and I will
11, 28). He does not
and if
stumbling, fall-
will find. a

No. 3.

warm welcome in the heart that loves him, in
the arms of Jesus, ‘‘ who his own self bare our
sins in his own body on the tree,’ (1 Pet.
2, 24). ‘Neither is there salvation in any
other; for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must
be saved,’’ (Acts 4, 12).

Treasures in the Old Book.

A man of Monongahela city picked up an old
book. He intended merely to while a little
time away. Glancing through its pages he
was surprised to find two peculiar page marks.
They were green, and of familiar print. On
examination they revealed a money value.
They were two national bank bills, each worth
a thousand dollars. It has not been discovered
why they were laid away in the book, nor by
whom. But by their faded appearance, they
have lain in their peculiar safe for many a day.

That man rejoices over the great discovery.
Between the pages of an old worn out book he
has found riches. Yet all he found wasa mere —
promise made by the government of the United
States, to give two thousand dollars.—But if
we take up the Old Book, called the Bible, we
find on all its pages promises, endorsed by the
Government of heaven, by God Himself, and
worth more than all the greenbacks and all the
gold and silver in the world. Look for those
promises, the bank bills of heaven! They are
found between the pages of the Bible.

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No Excuse.

Do you refuse to become a Christian because
your friend, who professes to be one, is so in-
consistent, perhaps doing such things you your-
self would not dream of doing? In the first
place, your friend may be a hypocrite, there-
have been many of his kind from the days of
Judas down, so you will be left without excuse;
but again, it is written that “every one of us
shall give an account of himself to God,” it is :
a. personal matter, if-you reject His Son, it mat-
tera not about the inconsistency of your friend,
for you will lose your soul, and that without
excuse.”