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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SyNODICAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. X.

St. Louis, Mo., August, 1888.

No. 8.

Evening Hymn.

The day is done!

I thank Thee, Lord, alone.
’Tis evening, and I cry,

O Saviour, be Thou nigh!
This night from sin me keep,
Preserve me while I sleep.

The day is done!

I bless Thee, mighty One.
’Tis evening, and I cry,

O Saviour, be Thou nigh!
This night from ill me keep,
Preserve me while I sleep.

The day is done!

I praise Thee, Holy One.

’Tis evening, and I cry,

O Saviour, be Thou nigh!
This night from blots me keep,
Preserve me while I sleep.

Light to these eyes afford,
O Christ, my God and Lord!
Dispel my soul’s death-gloom,
Lest I should sleep in death ere day—
Lest my great foe should boast and say,
I have him overcome!
Defend my soul, O God!
For snares beset my road.
Thou art my help alone.
Deliver me from sin and fear,
Preserve me in my peril here,
O good and gracious One!
From the Greck,

What the Believers Have.

Let us see what God’s Word says they have
who believe in Jesus and receive Him as their
Saviour :—

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that be-
lieveth on Me hath EVERLASTING LIFE,” John
6, 47. .

The believers have life in Christ, and this
life is an everlasting life, a life of eternal bliss
"and joy.

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I Give
UNTO yOou,”’ John 14, 27.

“Think of having the peace that Jesus has!
The believers have that peace. He says also:

*«Come unto Me that labor and are heavy
laden and I wItt GIvE YOU REST,” Matth. 11, 28.
Rest for the soul is something that every one

‘needs. Only the believer, however, who has

forgiveness of sin through faith in Christ, can
have this rest, the unbeliever can not. God
says, the ‘‘wicked are like the troubled sea,’’
Isaiah 57, 20.

“Which HOPE WE HAVE as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth
into that within the veil,’ Heb. 6, 19.

What a sure hope the believer has! Not
fixed on something in this earth that may fall,
but fixed into Christ within the veil (heaven).

“‘Whereby are GIVEN UNTO US EXCEEDING
GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES,” 2 Peter 1, 4.

These promises assure the believer that they
who trust in Jesus can and will have all that
the Father can give.

One of the many promises given the believer
is that he shall always have Christ’s presence.

‘*T will NEVER LEAVE THEE nor forsake thee,”
Heb. 13, 5.

Never, what a word! It is wortha gold mine,
that little word—never! Child of God, lay
hold of it, hide it in your heart, remember it
daily.

«His divine power HATH GIVEN UNTO US ALL
THINGS that pertaineth unto life and godliness,’’
2 Peter 1, 3.

What wonderful, boundless and endless gifts!
Ought believers not to rejoice and be glad, and
accept them all, because they are ‘‘God’s gifts,”
and the weakest as well as the strongest can
have them. :

Believers often talk about what they lack.
Let them not forget that they have forgiveness
of sins, life, peace, rest, hope, promises, pres-
ence of Christ, and all things.

The unbelievers have not these things. They
have no God, no Christ, no hope, no rest, no
peace, and have the judgment and wrath of
God resting upon them. How terrible to be
wandering through this world without God,
without Christ, and without hope. If you are
still an unbeliever, flee to Christ and be saved
and come into the possession of all things that

believers have.
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isn anp CurrstrAns.—As dead fish swim.

with the stream and living fish against it, so
dead Christians move with the stream of the
world, but living Christians go against the
world’s stream. ~

Dost Thou Believe on the Son of God?

For he that believeth on the Son of God hath
everlasting life. (John 3, 36.)

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself. (1 John 5, 10.)

He that believeth on me shall never thirst.
(John 6, 35.)

He that believeth on me, believeth not on me,
but on Him that sent me. (John 12, 44.)

He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
(John 6, 47.) .

He that believeth on me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live. (John 11, 25.)

He that believeth on Him is not condemned.
(John 3, 18.)

He that believeth on me, the works that I do,
shall he do also. (John 14,12.) -

He that believeth on Him shall not be con-
founded. (1 Peter 2, 6.)

He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. (John 7, 38.)

Whosoever believeth on me shall not abide in -
darkness. (John 12, 46.)

Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. (John 3, 16.)

Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be
ashamed. (Romans 9, 33.)

Whosoever believeth on Him should not perish,
but have eternal life. (John 3, 15.)

Whosoever believeth in Him shall receive re-
mission of sins. (Acts 10, 43.)

Whosoever believeth in me shall never die.
(John 11,26.) ~*~

But—

He that believeth not is condemned already.
G@ohn 3. 19.)

He that believeth not God, hath made
liar. (1 John 5, 10.)

He that believeth not shall be damned. (Mark
16, 16.)

He that believeth not the Son, shall not see
life. (John 3, 36.)

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Him a

Ler not unworthiness scare the children of
God. Parents love their children and do them
good, not because they see that they are more
worthy than others, but because they are their
own. : oTtORANS