The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1894, Page 1

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— Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

Pusuisuep BY THE EvaNcEercaL LutneraN SynopicAL ConFERENCE oF Nortn AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XVI. St. Louis, Mo., January, 1894. No. 1:

“We Knows.” Oh, how hopeless are they! As the years|not fear what another day or another year

pass by, they are hastening to the grave and | may bring forth. The name of Jesus will
to eternity and have no hope, for they know | comfort him in the dark. days of sorrow; it
not the Saviour. Therefore make known to|will lighten up the valley of the shadow of
them that precious name in which alone we| death, so that he need fear no evil. Yes, he
have peace and hope and everlasting salvation. | has nothing to fear, even though death come.

: It is for him the gate to eternal life. Precious
name—the name of Jesus!

Isee not a step before me, as I tread the days of
the year,

But the past is still in God’s keeping, the future
His mercy shall clear,

And what looks dark in the distance may brighten

as I draw near. ———2 + eo >

My heart shrinks back from trials which the future The Name of Jesus.

may disclose,

Yet I never had a sorrow but what the dear Lord
chose; :

So I send the coming tears back with the whispered
word ‘Iie knows.’’

‘Jesus is the Name we treasure,
Name beyond what words can tell;
Name of gladness, Name of pleasure,
Saving us from sin and hell.’’

How precious is thename of Jesus! Through
all the changitig scenes of our pilgrimage it
comforts when no other will; even in death
Jesus often is the last name lisped by the dy-
ing one, and causes a smile of joy even as life
ebbs away.

A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his
heathen comrades came around him and tried
to comfort him by reading from a heathen
book; but he waved his hand, as much as to
say, ‘tI don’t want to hear it.’” Then they
told him to call on the heathen god Jugger-
naut. He shook his head, as much as to say,
“J can’t do that.’? Then they thought he
perhaps was too weary to speak, and they
said, ‘Now, if you can’t say ‘Juggernaut’
think of that god.’? He shook his head again,
as much as to say, ‘‘No, no.’’ Then they
bent down to his pillow and said, ‘In what
will you trust?”’ His face lighted up with joy
as he, rallying all his dying energies, cried
out: ‘Jesus!”’

Yes, the name of Jesus is the most precious
name; for in that name we have salvation.
“You shall call His name Jesus,” said the an-
gel to Joseph, ‘‘for He shall save His people
from their sins.”? Jesus means Saviour, and
that name was given to the Babe of Bethle-
hem, because He is the Saviour—He alone.
Our good resolutions, and our own righteous-
ness, and our good works were not called Je-
sus; for they can not save us. But He, the
Son of God and Mary’s Son, was called Je-
sus; ‘for He shall save His people from their
sins’? Without Him our life in this world
would be but a journey to endless woe. “For
there is none other name under heayen given
among men, whereby we must be saved,”’
Acts 4, 12. But-by faith in His name the
greatest sinner may find salyation and make
his life a journey to endless bliss. He need

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When to Prepare for Eternity.

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The Precious Name. ~

An old man used to say, ‘‘Be sure you
prepare to meet God the day before you
die.”” When asked, ‘how can we tell the day
of our death? ‘he replied, ‘‘It may be to-mor-
row, therefore prepare to meet God to-day.””
Friend, are you prepared to meet God? What
will it profit you to gain the whole world and
lose your precious soul? What? Nothing,
surely nothing, a thousand times nothing.
Your soul is worth saving, for Jesus Christ
died to save it; yes, shed His life’s blood to
save your soul. How He must have loved you,
and still He loves you, for His Word declares
that ‘‘God commendeth His love toward us,
in that whilst we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.’’ -

—s +c or oo

Some years ago a native residing in a dis-
tant part of India had a tract given to him,
telling of Jesus and His great love to sinners.
The man was deeply interested in the story,
and read it again and again, until he was very
anxious to know more about Jesus. After
thinking much about it, he determined to go
to the nearest mission station and try to learn
something more about this loving Saviour.

At the close of a long and weary journey,
he came to the place where the missionary re-
sided, and found him holding public worship.
He drew near to the group that surrounded
the preacher, who was giving out his text from
1 Tim. 1, 15: ‘This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners.’” When
the missionary came to the word ‘‘Jesus,”’ the
Hindoo cried out with great joy, ‘‘Ah! that’s
the name! ah! that’s the name!—the pre-
cious name !””

The longing of his heart was satisfied. He
heard more about the Saviour. He drank in
the glad tidings of the Gospel, and received
the message of mercy, believed in the name
of Jesus, and was exceedingly happy.

He soon went back to his own part of the
country, to make known the treasure he had
found, and tell others of the preciousness of
the name of Jesus. t

Those that have found joy and peace and
happiness in the name of Jesus will make that
name known to those that know it not and’
who therefore are without hope in ‘this world.

God’s Protection.

He has kept and folded us from ten thousand
ills when we did not know it; in the midst of
our security we should have perished, every
hour, but that He sheltered us ‘‘from the terror
by night and from the arrow that flieth by
day’’—from the powers of evil that walk in
darkness, from snares of our’ own evil will-
He has kept us even against ourselves, and
sayed.us from our own undoing. Let us read
the traces of His hand in all our ways, in all the
events, the chances, changes of this troubled
state. Itis He that folds and feeds us, that
makes us to go in and out—to be faint, or to
find pasture —to lie down by the still waters; _
or to walk by the way that is parched and
desert. ~~ rat :