The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1900, Page 33

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PususHep BY THE EvaNGELIcAL LurneraN SynopicAL CONFERENCE OF Norra AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXII. No. 9.

through the house you feel happy. You walk Decision of a Little Girl.
around the house and look at it, and it makes
you so happy to look at it.””

“No, that isn’t the reason. It is because
I have the deed my husband gave me before
he died.’’

“Well, now,”’ said the pastor, ‘‘let me tell
you that God has prepared and gives salva-
tion and peace in Christ, the Saviour of sin-
ners, and you are to take it on the same evi-
dence as that by which you know you own
your house. You have been looking at your
feelings and at what you have been doing.
You must look to the deed, to the Word in
which God tells you that salvation and peace
is yours.”

He opened the Bible and read the following
passage: ‘‘This is the record that God has
given to us eternal life, and this life is in His
Son.”? He then'said, ‘‘You see God has given
us eternal life in His Son, who suffered and
died in our stead. In Jesus the Son of God
there is salvation and peace and eternal life
for all sinners. Those that accept Christ have
it all. Do you believe in Jesus? Do you ac-
cept Christ?”

“I believe in Him as my Saviour.’”

“| Have Enough.”

I have enough! for Christ is mine!
How tenderly He careth!

I bring Him every anxious thought,
Each joy and grief He shareth.

When storms arise, and foes ensnare,
And Satan would enslave me,

I know that nought shall bring me harm;
The Lord is strong to save me.

A little girl in Ceylon, belonging to one of
the mission schools, was converted, and re-
ceived the name of Harriet when she was pre-
sented for baptism. At home she would call
her father and mother and others together,
and read the Scriptures, and pray with them.
She met with much opposition in this course
from her grandfather, who was a wicked man,
and who, while she was engaged in the family
devotions, or after they were finished, would
seize her by the hair of her head, and drag
her about and beat her, and order her not
to pray again. But his attempts to stop her
failed; for she told him that God was to be
obeyed rather than man, and persevered. Har-
riet died when she was eleven years old, pray-
ing and rejoicing. She was one of five who
died in the same house within eight days, her
cruel grandfather being one of the number.

I have enough! for Christ is mine,

A blessing without measure;
Nought can in earth or heaven compare
With Him, my greatest treasure.
When all around is dark and drear,

He is at hand to cheer me;
His everlasting arms embrace;
He whispers, ‘I am near thee.”

I have enough! yet not enough,
Until I cross the river,

And see my King, my glorious King,
And dwell with Him for ever.

But soon I’ll reach the promised land,
Where nought from Christ can sever;

Then I shall sce Him as He is, —
*Twill be ENOUGH for ever!

—————+> +o oe _

“Enough For Me.”

ANON.

———»>-~-o-aPor o-

A little child who had just lost her mother
was asked by a friend, ‘‘What do you do with-
out a mother to tell your troubles to?”’

How to find Peace.

A pastor tells the following conversation
which he had with a lady who was in great

distress of mind about her soul.

‘‘Haven’t you peace with God?” the pastor

asked.
“No, I have been seeking it for years.”’
‘What have you done?’’

“I have done everything. I have prayed,
Ihave consecrated myself, I have been liberal,
giving everything that the Lord seemed to ask.

I am sure I have done everything I could.’’
‘Yet you haven’t peace?”’

“No, and I don’t seem to be any nearer

than when I first began.’’

‘“Well,’? said the pastor, ‘‘you are trying to
find peace in the wrong way; you are looking
Please, tell
me, do you own the house in which you live?”

to your own feelings for peace.

“Oh, yes.”’
‘‘How do you know you own it?”’

“Well, then, Christ is the sinner’s peace,
and if you have accepted Christ you have
peace, for you have life, eternal life. The
Bible says, ‘He that hath the Son hath life.’
And again we read, ‘These things have I writ-
ten unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God, that ye may know that ye have
eternal life.’ . We are to know it, not from our
feelings, but from what is written. We are
to trust, not in our feelings or in our doings,
put in the Word of God.””

The lady listened attentively and it all be-
came plain to her. She saw the mistake she
had made by looking to her feelings and do-
ings for peace. She now simply believed what
God says in the Gospel, and by trusting in
God’s Word she found peace.

Dear reader, every poor sinner that is long-
ing for peace may say, ‘‘Unworthy and sinful
as Lam, I now take forgiveness of sins, peace,
and eternal life offered to me in Christ through

She sweetly said, ‘I go to the Lord Jesus.
He was my mother’s friend and He’s mine.’”

When she was asked if she thought Jesus
would attend to her, she replied, ‘‘All I know
is, He says He will; and that’s enough for me.”

What was enough for this child is enough
for all.

— —- ooo ——_

Mary’s Occupation.

At the great exposition in Omaha it'was the
custom for the people to register or sign their
names in the different state buildings. People
who registered were asked to give their occu-
pation, so that the books read like this, ‘‘John
Smith, farmer;” ‘‘Thomas Brown, carpenter,””
and so on.

A little golden-haired girl asked that she
might register. She was told to write her
name and occupation, and this is what she

The lady did not exactly know what to say,
and the pastor continued, ‘‘I suppose you
know you own it, because when you walk

wrote, ‘‘Mary Jones; I help mamma.””

the Gospel.” The moment he thus believes
What a beautiful occupation Mary had!

the Gospel he has peace.