The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 13

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY

PousiisHeD BY THE EvancericaL Lurneran SyNopicay, ConrereNce or Nortn AMERICA.

Entered at the Post Oflice at St. Louis, Mo., 95 second-class matter.

MONTHLY.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor,

Vol. XV. St.

No. 4.

Louis, Mo., April, 1893.

“Thine, Jesus, Thine.”

“Tam Thine.’’—Psalm 119, 94.

FOR OUR CONFIRMED CHILDREN.

Thine, Jesus, Thine,

No more this heart of mine
Shall seek its joy apart from Thee;
The world is crucified to me,

And I am Thine.

Thine, Thine alone,
My joy, my hope, my crown;
Now earthly things may fade and die,
They charm my soul no more, for I
Am Thine alone.

Thine, ever Thine,
For ever to recline
On love eternal, fixed, and sure,—
Yes, Iam Thine for evermore,
Lord Jesus, Thine.

Then let me live,
¢ Continual praise to give
To Thy dear name, my precious Lord,
Henceforth alone, beloved, adored,
So let me live —

Till Thou shalt come,

And bear me to Thy home,
For ever freed from earthly care,
Eternally Thy love to share,—

Lord Jesus, come.
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‘| that all their sins are forgiven, that paradise
\jis regained, that heaven is opened to them.

For Our Justification.

The Apostle Paul says of Christ: ‘‘Who
was delivered for our offences, and was raised
again for our justification.’” He was delivered
for our offences; far He was our Substitute.

_ Our sins were laid on Him, and, in the dark-

/ ness of Gethsemane, in the darkness that gath-
' ered around the cross, the sin-hating God met

His sin-bearing Son and poured out upon Him
the wrath which we deserved.

But Christ was our Substitute, not only in
His sufferings and death, but also in His resur-
rection. And therefore the apostle says, ‘‘He
was raised again for our justification.”” As
His sufferings and death were our sufferings
and death, so His justification is our justifica-
tion. . His victory is our victory, His triumph
is our triumph. From the Easter tidings we
learn that our Substitute, He who had taken

our place, was released and set free from the
prison-house of the grave into which He had
been laid on account of our debt. Since He
is our Substitute, we are set freein Him. Now
we know that our debt is paid, we know that
God is satisfied, we know that our redemption
is finished. Had our Substitute remained in
the power of death, the victory would not be
won. That. would mean that He mercifully
undertook the mighty work of our redemp-
tion, but failed. It would mean that He went
into the realm of death in our stead and was

fore you in Galilee; there shall ye see Him,
as He said unto you.’’ They were not to keep
the glad tidings to themselves. No. They were
to make them known to others. ‘‘Tell His
disciples and Peter,’’ said the angel. Who
were they to whom the glad tidings were to be
brought? They were sinners. They had for-
saken their Master in the hour of His unspeak-
able woe. And why is Peter named extra?
Poor Peter! He had denied his Lord three
times, and when he came to see his great sin,
he wept bitterly. All the disciples in their
held a captive there, and therefore did not] great sadness should hear the words of com-
redeem us from the terrible foe. It would] fort and joy: The Lord is risen! And Peter,
mean that the burden of our sin and woe was| the poor weeping Peter, must not be forgotten.
laid upon Him and crushed Him. But, blessed | Precious are those words: —‘‘and Peter.’’ To
be God, it was not thus. The Lord is risen! | every sinner, to the greatest sinner the Gos-
He is risen indeed! Our Substitute’s work,| pel must be preached. Tell sinners the glad
done for us, is finished and accepted, and the| Gospel-news: ‘The Lord is risen! The work
satisfaction rendered in our stead is perfect. | of our redemption is finished!’ ‘This Gospel-
‘*HWe was delivered for our offences, and was| news is brought to sinners in our mission work.
raised again for our justification.’’ In church and school our missionaries make

These are the glad Easter tidings. Do you| known the glad tidings of a risen Saviour.
believe them? By faith Christ’s resurrection} These tidings may be rejected by many. And
is ours. By faith we share the benefits of His| this may often sadden the hearts of our hard
great victory. The Gospel is God’s receipt| working missionaries. But they will always
in full, handed to sinners and telling them] find someone who, like Peter, has taken the
that His justice is perfectly satisfied, that all] place of a poor weeping sinner before God.
the punishment due to them has been borne, | Oh, tell him, tell him the glad Gospel-news:
‘*The Lord is risen! Your redemption was
finished more than eighteen hundred years
ago!’’ Many asoul has already been brought
to rejoice in the risen Saviour by our mission-
aries, and one soul is worth more than all
the treasures of this world. May all that
find peace and consolation in the glad Easter
tidings remember our mission work! May
they remember the words: ‘‘Tell His disciples
and Peter!”’

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Separation to Christ.

By faith we take this receipt and joyfully ex-
claim with the apostle, ‘‘Thanks be to God,
who giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.’’

Believe in the risen Saviour, who was deliy-
ered for your offences, and was raised again
for your justification! Believe in Him and
share the blessed Easter joy!

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“Tell His Disciples and Peter.”

To the women that came to the grave of
Jesus early on Easter morning an angel made
known the glad Easter tidings: ‘*He is risen.
He is not here, behold the place where they
laid Him.”’ And, having thus made known to
them the glad tidings that were to fill their
hearts with joy, he said, *‘But go your way,
tell His disciples and Peter that He goeth be-

Mary, on the morning of the resurrection,
was 80 occupied with the Lord, that it was no
affliction to her that she could not have the
world with all its follies instead of Him! When
will Christians learn wherein consists the true
power for a holy separated life and male?
Separation unto Christ is the only true way ©
being separated from this world.

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