The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1895, Page 29

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusiisHep BY THE HvaNGELIOAL LutHeraN SyNoDICcAL ConFERENCE oF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XVII.

St. Louis, Mo., August, 1895.

No. 8.

Let Down Your Nets.

Launch out into the deep
The awful depth of a world’s despair;
Hearts that are breaking and eyes that weep,
Sorrow and ruin and death are there.
And the sea is wide, and the pitiless tide
Bears on its bosom — away,
Beauty and youth, in relentless ruth
To its dark abyss, for aye —for aye.
But the Master’s voice comes over the sea,
“Yay down your nets for a draught”? for Me!
He stands in our midst on our wreck-strewn
strand,
And sweet and royal is His command.
His pleading call is to each —to all;
And whenever the royal call is heard,
There hang the nets of the royal Word. °
Trust to the nets and not to your skill,
Trust to the royal Master’s will;
Let down your nets each day, each hour,
For the word of a king is a word of power,
And the King’s own voice comes over the sea,

“Let down your nets for a draught’’ for Me!
L. P.

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Rest in Jesus.

“J will give you rest,’’ says Jesus. In
Jesus there is rest for every sinner, and in
Jesus only. He ‘tis the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sins of the world.’”’ There-
fore ‘the that believeth on the Son hath ever-
lasting life,’’? John 3, 36.

If the sinner is to have rest for his weary
heart and his troubled conscience, he must
have forgiveness of sin. In Jesus we have
redemption through His blood; namely, the
* forgiveness of sins. Those that believe in
Him have rest.

Rest in Jesus! Has your heart found it? If
not, let me tell you, you do not realize what you
are missing. It would give you a great deal
of satisfaction to know that you had enough
money to last you the rest of your life. You
would consider it a great blessing if you en-
joyed perfect health for the rest of your days.
Tt would fill your soul with joy to know that
you were respected and loved by all that know
you. But rest in Jesus is a far greater pos-
Session than all these things put together.
Nothing can be compared to it, and no one
knows what real, true rest is until he possesses
this rest in Jesus. It is always present, in

sickness and in health, in days of sorrow and
in days of prosperity. If all your earthly
possessions be swept away; if your health
break down; even if the tongue of slander
destroy your good name, and all the world
turn against you— still that rest will remain
and fill your soul with peace. It takes away
all dread of the morrow; for those that have
found rest in Jesus know that ‘‘all things work
together for good.”” It takes away the fear
of death, and makes death the entrance into
everlasting rest in our Father’s house. ‘‘We
which have believed,’ says St. Paul, ‘‘do en-
ter into rest.’’

What folly to seek for rest, and yet refuse
to go to Jesus, in whom alone rest is to be
found! What misery to go restless through
this world and not to hear the Gospel, in which
the Saviour gives rest to the troubled soul!
What joy to aid in mission work, by which
the Saviour’s sweet invitation is brought to
the restless: ‘‘Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest!”

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Help the Missionaries.

The missionaries are doing our work. To
all Christians the command is given: ‘‘Go ye
into all the world and preach the Gospel to
every creature.”” The missionaries that we
send to make known the Gospel of salvation
are our substitutes ; they are doing our work.
It is our duty to help them in their labor.
How can we help them? We can help them
by prayer. Prayer is the most important part
of missionary work.. Missionaries of them:
selves can do nothing. ‘The work is of God,
and from God the blessing must come. He
must give the increase. He must give health,
and strength, and patience to the laborers in
the mission field. He must open the doors
and the hearts and crown the labor of His
servants with His blessing. By prayer, there-
fore, we help the missionaries.

If we earnestly pray for our missionaries,
we shall also be liberal contributors to the
mission work and thus help the missionaries
by our gifts. We must not be like the man
who prayed for a poor family in the neighbor-

hood, but never gave them anything from his
well-filled barn. A praying Christian is also
a paying Christian. Therefore, do not forget
to help the missionaries by your prayer and
by your contributions to the mission treasury.

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It Makes a Difference.

The popular adage is, ‘‘Oh, it makes no
difference what a man believes, if he is sin-
cere.”’

Let us see. A family was poisoned in Mont-
gomery county last week by eating toadstools,
which they sincerely believed to be mushrooms.
Three of them died. Did it make no differ-
ence?

A man indorsed a note for a friend whom
he sincerely believed to be an honest man.
He was a scoundrel, and left him to pay the
debt. Did it make no difference?

A traveler takes the wrong train going north,
sincerely believing it is the southern train.
Will it make no difference? Will he bring
up at the south all the same?

If a man sincerely believes a certain thing,
while the truth about it is entirely different,
will this sincere belief make it all right?

The truth is, the popular adage is a lie, and
a very transparent one at that! Ifa man is
sincere, he will take pains to know the truth.
For where facts are concerned, all the thinking
in the world will not change them. A toad-
stool remains a toadstool, whatever we may
think about it. — Zhe Covenant.

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In It, But Not of It.

One evening, in a parlor at a Summer water-
ing place, the young people were dancing.
One young lady was not taking any part in the
exercise. ‘Does not your daughter dance?”
asked another lady of this young lady’s mother.

*‘No,’”’ was the reply.

‘Why, how will she get on in the world?””

“J am not.bringing her up for the world,’
was the quiet answer.

The young lady is now a woman, and the
influence of her consecrated life is felt in many
of the Christian interests of a great city.