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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusiisHED BY THE EyANGELICAL LUTHERAN SyNopICAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

No. 8.

Vol. XXII.

St. Louis, Mo. August, 1900.

Christ is All.

I entered once a home of care,

For age and penury were there,
Yet peace and joy withal;

I asked the lonely mother whence

Her helpless widowhood’s defence,
She told me, ‘‘Christ is all.’’

I stood beside a dying bed,
Where lay a child with aching head,
Waiting for Jesus’ call;
I marked his smile, ’twas sweet as May,
And as his spirit passed away,
He whispered, “Christ is all.’

I saw the martyr at the stake,
The flames could not his courage shake,
Nor death his soul appall;
I asked him whence his strength was given;
He looked triumphantly to heaven,
And answered, ‘Christ is all.”

I saw the Gospel herald go

To Afric’s sand and Greenland’s snow,
To save from Satan’s thrall;

Nor home, nor life he counted dear.

’Midst wants and perils owned no fear;
*He felt that ‘Christ is all.’’

I dreamed that hoary time had ofled,
And earth and sea gave up their dead,
A fire dissolved this ball;
I saw the Church’s ransomed throng,
I heard the burden of their song,
’T was ‘Christ is all in all.”

Then come to Christ, oh, come to-day,
The Father, Son, and Spirit say;

The Bride repeats the call,
For He will cleanse your guilty stains,
His love will soothe your weary pains,

For ‘Christ is all in all.’?
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Salvation in Christ.

We need salvation, for we are sinners. “The
whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot unto the head there
is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises,
and putrefying sores.’’ ‘Thus the prophet de-
scribes our condition as God sees us. And no
onecan claim that this is the condition of some
only. ‘‘For there is no difference; for all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God,”’
Says the apostle. ‘There is not a just man
Upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not.’”
Therefore all men are by nature under the

wrath of a just and holy God; everlasting
damnation is their due. ‘‘The wages of sin
is death.’’ Yes, we need salvation.

Where is salvation to be found? Many
answers are given to this question, but only
one of them allis true. God’s Word tells us
that salvation is to be found in Christ only.
‘‘Neither is there salvation in any other; for
there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved,”’ says
the apostle. In Christ only is there salvation.
In any other person, in any other name there
is not salvation to be found. Out of Christ
there is no peace, no hope, no salvation. Out
of Christ ‘‘our God is a consuming fire,’’ de-
nouncing wrath and damnation upon every
sinner; but in Christ God is a loving God,
offering forgiveness and salvation unto the
chief of sinners. For ‘tGod was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto Himself.’’ Christ,
the Son of God, took the sinner’s place and
bore the sinner’s curse. By His holy life, by
His bitter sufferings and death He procured
salvation for every sinner. ‘Therefore salva-
tion is to be found in Him only. He Himself
says, ‘‘Iam the door; by meif any man enter
in, he shall be saved.’’. Again He says, ‘‘I am
the way, and the truth, and the life; no man
cometh unto the Father but by me.”

How are we to get this salvation which is in
Jesus? By trusting in Him as our Saviour
and Redeemer. In the Gospel He comes to
us with forgiveness of sins and everlasting
salvation. Jvery sinner that accepts Him as
his Saviour, every sinner that trusts in Him
and believes in Him, is saved. He has that
salvation which is in Christ. ‘‘For God so
loved the world that He gave His only be-
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life,”
says Christ Himself. You belong to the world,
and the word ‘‘whosoever’’ includes you.
Then God so loved you, that He gave His Son
to keep you from perishing. Believe this for
yourself and you have salvation.

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Davin LivincstTone said: ‘People talk to
me of the sacrifice I have made in spending
so much of my life in Africa. Say rather it
is a privilege. I never made a sacrifice.”

Zalim Singh’s Argument.

One day when Zalim Singh, a Christian con-
vert, was crossing the Ganges in the same boat
with two Brahmins, they began to reproach
him for having become a Christian.

‘‘What do you know, you ignorant fellow,
of your own religion or of Christianity ?’’

Zalim replied: ‘‘What you have said, Pun-
dits, about my ignorance, is all true, but
whether I have acted foolishly in ceasing to
worship my thakur (household idol) is another
thing. Ihadachapel god at my house; he was
beautifully made, and cost me some money,
for the man who made him was a skillful work-
man, and I paid him handsomely. But see
here, Pundits, suppose I had my thakur here
in this boat, and in my right hand I took my
thakur, and in my left hand this little"dog,
and cast them both in the Ganges; what would
become of them?’’ The Pundits were silent,
but the boatman said: ‘‘Why, the god, being
of stone, would sink, and the dog would swim
ashore.”

“Tf so,”’? the Christian replied, ‘‘then the
dog must be greater than the god, for he can
save himself, which the god can not do. Do
not expect me, Pundits, to worship a god
which is inferior to a dog. No! I will no
longer worship a stone, but I will worship
Him who made the stone, I worship the Lord
Jesus, who died for me, and Him only will I

serve.”’
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Escape from an Earthquake.

The following epitaph is said to have been
copied from a tomb, in the vicinity of Port
Royal, Jamaica : —

‘‘Here lieth the body of Louis Calny, Esq.,
a native of Montpelier, in France, which coun-
try he left on account of the revocation. He
was swallowed up by the earthquake which
occurred at this place in 1692, but, by the
great providence of God, was, by a second
shock, flung into the sea, where he continued
swimming, till rescued by a boat, and lived
forty years afterwards.’’ :

How wonderful are the ways of God!