The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1889, Page 25

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SyNODICAL ConrERENCE oF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XI.

St. Louis, Mo., July, 1889.

No. %.

No Other Name.

There is no Saviour but my Lord,
There is no Gospel but His Word;
Upon that Word I stay my soul

Till earth and heaven away shall roll.

There is none other than His name,

To save from guilt and death and shame;
And in that name my heart shall trust—
Yea, when this frame shall sink to dust.

There’s no atonement but His cross,

All earthly means are death and loss:

And through that cross my soul shall stand
Among the just, at God’s right hand.

There is no refuge but in Him,

Secure, when sun and stars are dim;
» ’Tis there this guilty soul shall hide

And through eternal years abide.

No other name to man Js given,
No name beneath the vault of heaven—
That name upon the cross engraved—
By which the guilty must be saved.
Selected.

——s +o or oe

The One Escape.

God has but one escape, and how can we
escape if we neglect that escape? Just as at
sea, the cry of fire is heard, the life-boat is
lowered, and whoever fails to reach it, can find
no other escape. And ob, how sad when the
one escape proves to bea failure, when the one
escape is no escape, neglect, or no neglect, it is
allthe same. We recently read of the failure
of the fire-escape one night in the city of Dublin.

It was on a calm summer evening when a
fire broke out in a large house. There were
seven who were seen to be shut up in that
prison-house of flame. There they stood at
the front windows of the upper story crying for
help. When told the escape was at hand, they
stood looking hopefully down on that which
was to be their deliverance. They saw the
ladder being raised to where they stood. But
oh! the ladder fell short of those who needed tt.
Oh! the deep agony, when those to whom the
escape had promised life caw that it could not
reach them. They were seen to give one heart-
rending look of despair, and then with agonizing

_ shrieks fall back into the flames. ‘The escape
proved to be no escape, the salvation was no
salvation.

But, dear reader, it is not so with our God.
God, indeed, has but one escape, and that escape
never fails. Man was lost, sin must be atoned
for; and once an atonement is made, an escape
from God's wrath is made. He who took the
sin, took the wrath, and that is our escape.

It is Jesus who has taken that wrath, and
Jesus only is the escape for rinners, for every
sinner, for the greatest sinner. And this escape
can never be a failure. No, never! Why not
use this escape? What will you do without
Christ? Without Him you must perish in the
flames of hell. How can you escape if you
neglect so great salvation?

There is life in the look at the Crucified One;
There is life at this moment for thee;

Then look, sinner, look unto Him and be saved,
Unto Him, who was nailed to the tree.

Oh take, with rejoicing, from Jesus at once
The life everlasting He gives;

And know with assurance thou never canst die
Since Jesus thy righteousness lives.

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“Mighty to Save.”

One bright morning, during the war between
the French and the Germans, a few French
prisoners, suspected of being spies, -were let out
by a German guard to be shot.

Amongst them was a mere boy of seventeen.
To him’ the thought of death was most terrible.
When about to be placed in the fatal row, he
broke away with a wild cry and flung himself
on his knees before the commanding officer.

“Save me! Oh, save me!’’ he gasped, his
face white with terror. Then he went on to
plead piteously, telling of his father’s cottage
in sunny Languedoc, and of the old man’s
despairing grief when he should learn the fate
of his only boy.

It was useless; tears rolled down the stern
veteran’s cheeks; but the law must be car-
ried out. .

“(My child,”’ he said, ‘‘God knows I would

give all I have to save you, but Iam powerless!”
and he turned away his head that he might not
behold the fate he could not put off. The boy-
soldier died, for there was none near mighty

enough to save.

Every sinner in the world is under sentence
of death by the law of God. The Bible says
so, for ‘‘the wages of sin is death.’’ How
terrible it would be if there were no hope.
But, thank God, there is One who has not only
the will but the power to save—the Lord Jesus.
He is “mighty to save.’”? He has redeemed
us from the curse of the law and from that
death sentence. The death sentence has been
removed and pardon is brought to all sinners
in the Gospel. Accept this Gospel, and though
your body may die, you will be reckoned among
that blessed number ‘“over whom the second
death has no power.”

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The Copper will do for poor Maggie. P

A missionary had been preaching a mission
sermon, and telling about the poor women of
India, and he observed that many of the audi-
ence seemed quite affected by his account.
A few days afterwards the pastor met on the
street a poor old woman, half blind, who earned
a livelihood by doing errands or any other little
work, She put a sixpence into his hand, saying
it was to go for mission work in India. Her
pastor, knowing how poor she was, said, ‘‘No,
no, Maggie; that is too much for you to give:
you can not afford this much.”

She replied she had just been on an errand
for a kind gentleman, and instead of the few
coppers she generally received, he had given
her three pennies and a sixpence; and, said
she, ‘‘The silver and the gold are the Lord’s;
the copper will do for poor Maggie.””

———»>—-oaPo oe _

Fools “Make a Mock of God.”

An agnostic on learning that a distinguished
and intelligent lady was a believer in the Holy
Scriptures professed to be surprised and asked
her: *‘*Do you believe the Bible?’”? ‘* Moat
certainly I do,”” was her reply. ‘‘ Why do you
believe it?’? he queried again. ‘‘ Because I
am acquainted with the author.’” This was her
testimony, and all his talk about unknown and
ithe unknowable went for nothing in view of the
calm confidence born of her personal acquaint-
ance with God.