The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1901, Page 13

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~The Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusLisHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SynopicaL CONFERENCE OF Norta AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXII. St. Louis, Mo., April, 1901. f : No. 4.

joice! Christ is raised from the dead. The
sorrowing women that came to the grave on
Easter morning found the grave empty and
heard from the lips of an angel messenger the
glad Easter message: ‘Ye seek Jesus of Naz-
areth, which was crucified ; He is risen, He
is not here.”’? Blessed message! Now we
know that the work of our redemption is fin-
ished. God the Father is perfectly satisfied
with the work of His Son. His justice re-
quires no more. By raising Christ from the
dead He placed His seal upon all that the
Son has done for sinners. And since God is
satisfied with the work of His Son, we have in
Christ forgiveness of sin and redemption from
death and from the power of the devil. Every
sin of every human being has been borne, for
all men death and devil and hell have been
conquered. In Christ, the sinner’s Substitute,
all sinners were condemned to sufferings and
death; in Christ, the sinner’s Substitute, all
sinners were set free and justified. ‘‘He was
delivered for our offenses, and was raised
again for our justification,’”’ says the apostle.
My dear reader, Christ is risen and you are
‘| redeemed. This is the blessed Easter mes-
sage brought to you in the Easter Gospel.
A more certain and more blessed message
you cannot hear. Believe it and rejoice!

joy pierce the darkness of their lives and bring
to them the blessings of the risen Saviour.

Curist 1s RISEN! Believe the message and
tell it on and on. In this consists the Chris-
tian’s life here on earth. And at last we shall
see Him, as He is, on the great Easter morn-
ing of the future, when the voice of our risen
Saviour shall ring through the silence of our
graves, and we shall rise to be forever with
the Lord.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Finished is the battle now:
The crown is on the Victor’s brow!
Hence with sadness!
Sing with gladness,
Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
After sharp death that Him befell,
Jesus Christ hath conquered hell!
Earth is singing,
Heaven is ringing!
Hallelujah!

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The Easter Festival.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
On the third morning He arose,
Bright with victory o’er His foes,
Sing in lauding,
And applauding,
Hallelujah!

“No wonder the Church keeps Easter as a
glorious and joyous festival, for it commemo-
rates the resurrection of her Lord and Saviour,
and proclaims the resurrection of the dead. It
is the festival of gladness, for it is the festival
of life. And when she carries her beloved
dead to their last resting place, she bids her
ministers say: ‘I know that my Redeemer
liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth. And though after my
skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold, and not an-
other.’

‘And when she commits the body to the
ground, she declares that she does so, ‘in hope
of the resurrection to eternal life, through
our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our
vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto
His glorious body, according to the working,
whereby He is able even to subdue all things
unto Himself.’ ”’

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
He hath closed hell’s brazen door,
And heaven is open evermore!
Hence with sadness!
Sing with gladness,
Hallelujah!
Dr. I. M, Neate.

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The Easter Message.

Cunist 1s r1sEN! ‘This is the Easter mes-
sage. It is a message of gladness. Believe
it and rejoice. It takes away all our fears
and brings peace and calm to our troubled
hearts. It assures us that the work which
Christ came to do is finished. He came into
the world and was made under the law to re-
deem them that were under the law. For
this purpose He took the sinner’s place and
led a life of perfect obedience to the will of
His heavenly Father and endured the punish-
Ment of sin in His most bitter sufferings and
in His most shameful death upon the cross.
With the cry, ‘It is finished!” He entered
death. But then He was laid in the grave
and the question was, Is the work of our re-
demption really finished? Now, if Christ had
Temained in death and the grave, we could
Not be sure of our redemption, we could have
Ro hope of salvation. ‘‘If Christ be not
raised,” says the apostle, ‘‘your faith is vain,
ye are yet in your sins.” But, let sinners re-

Cunist 1s RIseX! This is the Easter mes-
sage. It is a message of gladness. Tell it to
others. ‘To those who first heard the mes-
sage the angel said, ‘Tell His disciples and
Peter.”’? These were sinners; they were in
sorrow and distress. ‘To them the comfort-
ing message should be told: ‘‘Christis risen!”
‘And throughout this world of sin, and tears,
and sorrow, and death this glad Easter mes-
sage is to be made known, that sinners may
find comfort and rejoice. To all that know
not the risen Saviour life is full of sorrow,
misery, and despair. They have no consola-
tion in life and no hope in death. Their life
ig but a voyage over & dark and stormy sea
to the darker shores of an awful eternity. If,
then, the Easter message has filled your heart
with gladness, think of those who still sit in
the darkness of sin and in the shadow of
death. Let the bright sunshine of the Easter

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The Open Sepulchre.

Upon that place stood a cross, and a little
below a sepulchre. So I saw in my dream,
that just as Christian came up with the cross,
his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and
fell from off his back, and began to tumble,
and so continued to do till it came to the
mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I
saw itno more. ‘Then was Christian glad, and

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Bunyan.

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