The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1897, Page 23

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

23

(For the LUTHERAN PIONEER.)

Mount. Zion Colored Lutheran Church at
Meyersville, near Charlotte, N. C.

Sunday, March 21, was a day of great joy
for our people at Meyersville, near Charlotte,
N.C. Mission work commenced at this point

~just fourteen months ago. The people have
tried for some twenty years to get a church,
but failed for some reasons. We are glad to
say to the readers of our dear PIonEER that
God has now given the people a spiritual home
and they appreciate it very much.

We started at the above named place with

Sunday School and short sermon
each Sunday morning, and now
we have a very promising mis-
sion. Services are well attended,
and the people are very thankful
for what the Lord has done for
them through our Mission Board.
I am convinced that- they will
prove their interest by giving
their presence and little mites,
to help on the good cause.

The chapel is very fine. It was
erected at the cost of three hun-
dred and eighty-five dollars, in-
cluding lot and extra work. The
people bought the lot for fifty
dollars. The board gave two
hundred and sixty-five dollars,
and the rest was raised by the _
people. So your readers can sce
that we are willing to help our-
selves.

The chapel.is 34 feet in length
by 24 feet in width, tower 14 feet
high. The inside of the chapel is
ceiled and plastered and oiled;
the outside is painted white with fA
gtay trimmings. The building \
is beautifully located and can be
seen for several miles around.

Dedication services were held
in the morning and in the even-
ing and were well attended. Rev.
N. J. Bakke, of Concord, N.C., delivered the
dedicatory sermon on Psalm 87, 1—5. Sermon
in the afternoon was delivered by the writer,
he speaking on self-consecration and taking
as his text Exodus 32, 29.

W. P. Puirer, Missionary.

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Trust in Jesus Only.

One day there came to my study a young
man who had been convinced of his sinful-
ess, and who tried hard to save himself.
He had formed good resolutions and taken
Solemn yows, but found no peace.

“Your trouble,”’ said I, ‘tis due wholly to
the fact that your thoughts are occupied about
yourself. You do not trust in the finished
work of the Saviour offered to you in the Gos-
Pel; you do not believe in Christ.’

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“Ah! just so; you want to trust in Him|soever believeth in Him should not perish,
partly to save you, and partly to trust in your! but have everlasting life’ (John 3, 16); ‘He

feelings.

But the word feeling occurs only|that heareth my word, and believeth on Him

twice in the entire Bible, and in neither case | that sent me, natu everlasting life, and shall

in the sense in which you use it.’’

|not come into condemnation; but 1s PASSED

“Why, I thought I had to feel that I was |from death unto life’ (John 5, 24); ‘For He

saved before I could be saved.’’
‘Not at all.

| hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no
The work of salvation was/|sin; that we might be made the righteousness

finished by Christ more than eighteen hundred | of God in Him’ (2 Cor. 5, 21); ‘And by Him

years ago.

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Mission Chapel at Meyersville, N.C.

friend tells you good news, you do not first
feel glad and then believe him; but first be-
lieve him, and then feel glad.”
“(Have I nothing then to do with feeling?”
“Nothing whatever. You are asked to be-
lieve the written record of God’s word; ‘and
this is the record, that God hath Given to us
eternal life, and this life isin His Son. He that
hath the Son, hath life; and he that hath not
the Son of God, hath not life’ (1 John 5, 11. 12).
All your feeling and struggling, therefore, is
not of the least value, for you are actually
‘dead in trespasses and sins;’ and until you
have the Son you do not have life, although
you may try, and weep, and vow for a thousand
years. Life, eternal life, is what you need,
and this life, the gift of God, is in His Son.”
‘Well, but how am I to have the Son?””
‘He comes to you in the Gospel. The mo-
ment you believe the Gospel you have Christ

This salvation is brought to you | all that believe are justified from Lt things’
You are to take it, not with | (Acts 13, 39).”

“*T believe that, but—’’

“Do not say but. There sre no
buts in God’s offer of salvation;
and do you not see that the devil
is trying to turn your thoughts
from Christ, and His finished
work, and His precious word, to
your own feelings? Fix your
trust upon Jesus alone as He is’
offered to you in the Gospel.

He is the Rock of Ages. How-
ever your feelings may change,
the rock never moves.’’

“Oh! you don’t know what a
sinner I have been.’’

“No, Ido not, but I know what
a Saviour you have; and He who
knows all about you, and the
worst about you, just because
you are a great sinner, wants you
to shout in the face of Satan,
‘This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners; of whom I am
chief’ (1 Tim. 1, 15). Ever since
Christ suffered and died a sacri-
fice for sin, God has been per-
fectly satisfied about the dread-
ful question of sin; and it is writ-
ten, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ
His Son [not that and something
else] cleanseth us from all sin’
(1 John 1, 7).”’

The young man listened attentively to the
Gospel message and by the grace of God soon
trusted in Jesus only. —J. H. Brookes.

Poor Women!

Miserable is the lot of married women in
China; they are practically the slaves of their
husbands. The common designation of a
wife by her owner is, ‘‘My mean thorn-bush.””
He never fails to scold and to slap her in the
presence of other people. A Chinese who
would be silly enough to treat his wife lov-
ingly would st once become the laughing-
stock of the town. Contempt for women is
so much fixed in the Chinese mind, that the
word-sign for ‘‘wife,’’ written once, Means a
disreputable character; written twice, fight;
and written thrice, intrigue!