The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1891, Page 13

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Che Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHILY.

Poususuep By THE Evancetica, Luraeran SyNopicaL CoNFERENCE OF NorTH AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XIII. St. Louis, Mo., April, 1891. No. 4.

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We Remember. thou shalt be saved,’ Acts 16, 31. Again,
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised Him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved,’’ Rom. 10, 8—13. I do,
as a poor sinner that feels his deep need, be-
lieve on the Lord Jesus who died for me, and
rose again for my justification, and I do confess
Him to be Lord over all, and upon the sole
authority of God’s Word, I know I am saved.
It is not presumption to believe what God has
said; no, it is simple faith—just to believe it
and rejoice in it, because He has said so.

Yes, and is it not a wonderful thought, that
it is possible for the believer to know he is
saved? God’s Word says he is, and surely he
should know it. Though Satan and man may
object, it is the blessed privilege of the believer
to know that he is saved.

Dear reader, are you saved? Do you say
you are believing in Jesus? Then it is your
blessed privilege to know and enjoy the fact
that you are saved. I will leave you one more
Scripture: ‘‘My sheep hear My voice, and I
know them, and they follow Me; and I give
unto them eternal life; and they shall never
perish, neither shall any man pluck them out
of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me,
is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck
them out of My Father's hand.”

So great was the indignation, that the case was
brought before the grand jury, and the men
barely escaped indictment for manslaughter.

If, in the eyes of the law, we are account-
able for a brother's life when we fail to warn
him of his danger, will God hold us less re-
sponsible when we allow immortal souls to
perish without an earnest effort to lead them
to Jesus? We may stand aside now, and pro-
test that the salvation of souls is no business
of ours, that we do not intend to assume the
work that belongs to the minister; but, when
we stand before the judgment seat, this excuse
will not avail. Then we shall realize that the
blood of our brother will be required at our ]
hands. The life that we live should be s0
Christ-like as to recommend Christ.

“Be ye also ready,’ said an old woman to a
young man as they stood by the coffin of a
common friend. ‘The arrow struck home, and
the youth went from the house of mourning
troubled in spirit. Those solemn words, uttered
in the presence of death, proved to be the voice
of God. It was the word of a poor, illiterate
woman, and not the eloquent appeal of the
gifted preacher, that God chose to use as the
instrument in this young man’s conversion.

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Lord Jesus, we remember
The travail of Thy soul,
When, through Thy love’s deep pity,
The waves did o’er Thee roll.
Baptized in death’s dark waters,
For us Thy blood was shed;
For us Thou, Lord of glory, .
Wast numbered with the dead.

O Lord, Thou now art risen,
Thy travail all is o’er;

For sin Thou once hast suffered—
Thou liv’st to die no more.

Sin, death and hell are vanquished
By Thee, the Church’s Head;

And, lo! we share Thy triumphs,
Thou first-born from the dead.

Into Thy death baptized,
We own with Thee we died;
With Thee, our life, we’re risen,
And shall be glorified.
From sin, the world, and Satan,
We’re ransomed by Thy blood,
And here would walk as strangers
Alive with Thee to God.

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Things | Know.

I know that I am a sinner, for the Word of
God says, ‘‘All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God,” Rom. 3, 23. I, ‘as an
individual, am among the ‘‘all”’ of that verse.
Consequently I am a sinner, and guilty, and

{ take my place as such.

: I know that God loved poor sinners, and that
Jesus, the Son of God, came to die for such;
for the Scripture says, ‘Christ hath once suf-
fered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He
might bring us to God,” 1 Pet. 3, 18. And
again, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy

_ Of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into

f the world to save sinners,” 1 Tim. 1, 15.

_L know that He died for me, an individual
sinner; for since I am a sinner, and He died
for such, He must have died for me. My name
18 not there; it would not avail me aught if it
Were, since there might be many of my name;

The Power of God’s Word.

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The Word of God has converting power not
only where it is preached, but also where it is
read. Christians should read the Bible daily
and do all in their power to bring it to others
for their conversion and edification. This blessed
Book has exerted its divine power at all times.
A Testament was left in an Armenian village
some ten yearsago. The missionary was driven
away, but that Testament remained there as a
faithful missionary, doing its silent work. Not
long ago another missionary came to that place,
whence his fellow Jaborer had fled for his life.
He says that he found thirty houses or three-
eighths of the inhabitants now Protestants. A
whole population of a village in Southern Africa

‘Am | my Brother's Keeper?”

The frame-work of a large building had been
erected, and the carpenters were pushing their
work to completion, when a bystander observed
that one of the heavy timbers was not plumb.
Calling the attention of his neighbor to the fact,
the matter was freely discussed; but, as neither
of them felt like meddling with other men’s
work, the warning was not given. The defect
could not be detected from the position occu-
pied by the workmen; 80 the hammering went
on, until there was & eudden swaying: of the
heavy beam, 4 loud crash of falling timbers,

. ; ] ushed and bleeding | have left their idols. They learned to know
Se ite ed be) His name, died oa SE ee trae eras coroner's inquest, |the true God and the way of salvation from
led for me.

the study of a single Gospel and a few tracts,

d the danger, and yet
the men who had Obet es Gaemay y which were left among them by a merchant.

know I am saved; for the Word of God severely censured.

"2Y8, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and failed to give the alarm, were