The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1888, Page 5

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Che Autheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY

MONTHLY.

PuBLISHED BY THE EvaNGcELIcaL LurHERAN SyNnopicaL CoNnFERENCE or Nortn AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. X.

St. Louis, Mo., February, 1888.

No. 2.

Satisfied.

O Jesus! Friend unfailing!
How dear art Thou to me!
Are cares or fears assailing?
I tind my strength in Thee!
Why should my feet grow weary
Of this my pilgrim way?
Rough though the path and dreary,
It ends in perfect day!

Nought, nought I court as pleasure,
Compared, O Christ, with Thee!
Thy sorrow without measure
Earn’d peace and joy for me!
I love to own, Lord Jesus!
Thy claims o’er me divine,
Bought with Thy blood most precious,
Whose can I be but Thine!

Why should I droop in sorrow ?
Thou’rt ever by my side!

Why, trembling, dread the morrow?
What ill can e’er betide?

If I my cross have taken,
’Tis but to follow Thee;

If scorn’d, despised, forsaken,
Nought severs Thee from me!

O worldly pomp and glory!
i Your charms are spread in yain!

I’ve heard a sweeter story!
I’ve found a truer gain!

Where Christ a place prepareth,
There is my loved abode!

There shall I gaze on Jesus!
There shall I dwell with God!

‘| wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised

Where He is and as He is. thy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners,’ 1 Tim. 1, 15.
Everything which secures salvation for you is
already done—yea, has been done since Jesus
said, ‘It is finished,’’ and died. ‘‘ Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou’shalt be saved.’’

“His Love to Me.”

The good Samaritan, of whom the Gospel
tells us, came to the man who had fallen among
thieves—just where he was. He did not wait
till the poor wounded man had helped himself.
No. He took him just as he was and where he
was and rescued him from death. So Jesus, the
Saviour of sinners, comes to sinnersin the Gospel
just where they are, where sin puts man—far,
far away from God. He ministers to them just
as they are. He asks of none to do better, to
feel better, to be better before He helps them.
No. From the riches of His grace He ministers
to them just as they are. They need life, for
they are dead in sin, and He gives them eternai
life: ‘‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted
up, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish but have eternal life,” John 8, 14. 15.

They need to be forgiven. Their sins are
against them and they are verily guilty. He
offers them a full, free forgiveness: ‘‘ Through
this Man (Jesus) is preached unto you the for-
giveness of sins; and by Him all that believe
are justified from all things,’ Acts 13, 38.

They need their conscience and heart to be
set at rest, for they are guilty, miserable and
wounded. He heals them perfectly: ‘“‘He was

To an invalid friend, who was trembling and
doubting, a minister once said: ‘‘When I leave
you I shall go to my own residence, if the Lord
will; and when there the first thing that I ex-
pect to do is to call for a baby that is in the
house. I expect to place her on my knee, and
louk down in her sweet eyes, and listen to her
charming prattle; and, tired as lam, her pres-
ence will rest me, for I love that child with an
unutterable tenderness.

‘«But the fact is she does not love me; or to
say the most for her, she loves me very little.
If my heart were breaking under a burden of
crushing sorrow it would not disturb her sleep.
If my body were racked with excruciating pain
it would not interrupt her play with her toys.
If I were dead she would be amused in watch-
ing my pale face and closed eyes. If my friends
came to remove the corpse to the place of
burial she would probably clap her hands in
glee, and in two or three days totally forget

For every tribulation,

For every sore distress,
In Christ I’ve full salvation,
Sure help and quict rest.

No fear of foes prevailing!
I triumph, Lord, in Thee!
O Jesus! Friend unfailing!
How dear art Thou to me!

“Our Father.”

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for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace
was upon Him, and with His stripes we are
healed,” Isa. 53, 5.

The drunkard, the thief, the lover of this
world must not make themselves better before
Christ will save them. No. They can never
do it. The drunkard, and the thief, and every
other sinner, must Jearn that he is a lost man—
actually lost; that he has already done what
certainly shuts him out from the presence of a
holy’God, and is now, as he is and where he is,

her papa. Besides this she has never brought
me in a penny, but has been a constant expense
on my hands ever since she was born. Yet,
although I am not rich in this world’s posses-
sions, there is not money enough in this world
to buy my baby. How is it? Does she love me
or do Tlove her? Do I withhold my love until
I know she loves me? And am I waiting for
her to do something worthy of my love before
extending it to her?”’

‘©Oh, I see it!’’ said the sick man, while
the tears ran down his cheek, ‘‘I see it clearly;

~ Although I cannot say ‘‘Our Father,” as we
shall be able to say it one blessed day, I will,
nevertheless, like a little child, lisp it; if I can
not believe it in all its fullness, I will not let
it be an untruth and say ‘‘No”’ to it; I will
daily endeavor to spell it, until I am able to
repeat this word, “Our Father,’’ after Christ;
whether I do it well or not, be it stammering
or atuttering.—Tzuther.

under condemnation. He must learn that noth-
ing that he can possibly do can at all deliver
him from his awful position.

Precious soul, whoever you be, in this con-
dition, nothing but what the Son of God has
done for, your deliverance can save you from
sin and rescue you from eternal damnation.
‘Jesus died for sinners; He therefore “‘receiveth
sinners.” ‘‘This is a faithful saying, and wor-

it is not my love to God, but God’s love to me
I ought to be thinking about; and I do love
Him now as I never loved Him before.””

From that time his peace was like a river.
“We love Him because He first loved us.””

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Gop had one Son on earth, without sin, but

never one without suffering.— Augustine.