The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 1

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Che Autheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PuBLIsHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTHERAN SynopicaAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

Vol. XXII.

St.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Louis, Mo., January, 1900.

New Year’s Wishes.

What shall I wish thee?
Treasures of carth?
Songs in the Springtime,

Pleasure or mirth?
Flowers on thy pathway,

Skies ever clear?
Would this insure thee

A Happy New Year?

What shall I wish thee?
What can be found
Bringing thee sunshine
All the year round?
Where is the treasure,
Lasting and dear,
That shall insure thee

A Happy New Year?

Peace in the Saviour,
Rest at His feet:

Smile of His countenance,
Radiant and sweet:

Joy in His presence,
Christ ever near—

These will insure thee
A Happy New Year.

F.R. W.
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New Year’s Message.
‘Fis name was called Jesus.’’ This is the

Message that greets us as we enter the new
year. What a blessed message itis! It speaks
of Him in whom alone we can have a happy
new year.

There is no true happiness without Jesus.
He who does not own Him as his Saviour has
no forgiveness of sin. Therefore the wrath
of God is still upon him, and his life is but
a journey to everlasting woe. He may not
believe it, but that does not change the fact.
The Bible plainly says, ‘‘He that believeth not
the Son is condemned already.”” And again
it says, ‘‘He that believeth not shall not see
lite; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
Such a person can not enjoy true happiness.
He may imagine to find happiness in the joys,
and pleasures, and riches of this world, but he
will never find true happiness in these things.
They can not take away sin, the fountain of
all misery. They can not take away the wrath

of sorrow and trouble; they can give no hope
in the hour of death.

In Jesus only we find true happiness; for
in Him only we have redemption from sin and
all its woe. Jesus means Saviour; and He
was called Jesus, because He saves His people
from their sins. Jesus saves, and He alone.
‘There is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved,”’ Acts
4,12. Man’s works, and man’s righteousness,
and man’s feelings, and man’s prayers, and the
virgin Mary, and the saints in heaven—they
were not called Jesus. They can not save us.
The Son of God, who became man and was
born of the virgin Mary, was called Jesus.
He saves, and He alone. He took our place
under the law, and fulfilled all its demands,
and bore its curse, which we deserved by our
transgressions. Thus He redeemed us from
sin, and wrath, and eternal damnation. They
who believe in Him as their Saviour have
forgiveness of sins. ‘To Him give all the
prophets witness, that through His namé who-
soever believeth in Him shall receive remission
of sins,’’ Acts 10,13. ‘*Your sins are forgiven
you for His name’s sake,’” 1 John 2,12. They
who believe in Him have everlasting life. ‘‘God
so loved the world that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life,’”’
John 3,16. ‘These things have I written unto
you that believe on the name of the Son of
God, that ye may know that ye have eternal
life,” 1 John 5, 13.

Well may the believer enter the new year
without fear. By faith in Him whose name
was called Jesus he enjoys true happiness;
for his sins are all forgiven, and he is on the
way to heaven. It is true, he does not know
what the new year will bring him. It may
bring sorrows, and trials, and even death.
But this does not take away his happiness,
for it can not take away Jesus. ‘The believer
knows that Jesus will never forsake him, and
that it will be well with him while He is his
guide. In Him he will have comfort in all
sorrows, strength in all trials, life in the midst
of death. In the name of Jesus he enters
the new year without fear, and goes on his

of God; they can give no comfort in the days| way rejoicing until his journey is ended, and

he shall be for ever with Him whom his soul
loves.

In the blessed name of Jesus we wish all
our readers a Happy New Year.

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Everlasting.

Another year is gone, never to return; and
with it many things are gone, never to be re-
covered. So many things fail and pass away
with the flying months of the year! Whata
comfort it is for the children of God that there
is One who will never fail them, One who is
everlasting and who does not change! It is
‘Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day,
and for ever,’’ Hebr. 18,8. There is no change
in Him. He is all in all to His people now,
and He is all in all to them for ever.

It is He in whom by faith they have found
life, and it is ‘‘EVERLASTING LIFE,’” Jolin 3, 16.

It is His love which has drawn them and
still draws them to Himself, and it is ‘‘ever-
LASTING LOVE,’’ Jer. 31, 3.

It is His way on which they walk, and it is
‘(7HE EVERLASTING WAY,’’ Ps. 139, 24.

It is His light which guides them, and it is
‘CaN EVERLASTING LIGHT,” Is. 60, 19.

It is His strength which helps them, and it
is ‘SEVERLASTING STRENGTH,”’ Is. 26, 4.

His arms they are which bear them, and they
are ‘THE EVERLASTING ArMs,’’ Deut. 33, 27.

It is His consolation which comforts them
in all their sorrows, and it is ‘‘eVERLASTING
CONSOLATION,’’ 2 Thess. 2, 16.

It is His kindness which pities them and
supplies them with all they need, and it is
‘EVERLASTING KINDNESS,”’ Is. 54, 8.

It is His mercy which surrounds them, and
it is “EVERLAsTING mercy,’” Ps. 100, 5.

It is His joy which gladdens them, and it is
‘CEVERLASTING Joy,”’ Is. 35, 10:

It is His salvation which saves them, and it
is “EVERLASTING saLyaTION,’” Is. 45, 17.

It is His kingdom into which He receives
them, and it is an ‘EVERLASTING KINGDOM,”
Ps. 145, 13. i

‘tJesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-
day, and for eyer!’?