The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1901, Page 29

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Che Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LutaeRaN SynopicaL Co#FERENCE or NortH AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as second-cle®*® Matter,

Vol. XXIII.

: ‘St. Louis, Mo., August, 1901.

No. 8.

Have Faith in God.

If you ever feel downhearted and discouraged,
If you ever think your work is all in vain,
If the burdens thrust upon you make you tremble,
And you fear that you shall ne’er the victory gain:
Have faith in God, the sun will shine,
Tho’ dark the clouds may be to-day,
His heart has planned your path and mine,
Have faith in God, have faith alway.

Darkest night will always come before the dawning,
Silver linings shine on God’s side of the cloud;
All your journey He has promised to be with you,
Naught has come to you but what His love allowed.
Have faith in God, the sun will shine,
Tho’ dark the clouds may be to-day,
His heart has planned your path and mine,
Have faith in God, have faith alway.

God is mighty! He is able to deliver;
Faith can victor be in every trying hour;
Fear and care, sin and sorrow, be defeated
By our faith in God’s almighty, conquering power.
Have faith in God, the sun will shine,
Tho’ dark the clouds may be to-day,
His heart has planned your path and mine,
Have faith in God, have faith alway.
May Agnew.
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A Rotten Rope.

The papers report that at a hotel fire in
one of our large cities one of the guests,
& trained nurse, when trying to escape by
means of a rope, fell to the ground from the
sixth story and was immediately killed. The

ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false Wit-
ness, blasphemies.’’? What a rotten thingg the
human heart is!

Others trust in their own works and Hope
to escape the wrath of God by their own ggood
deeds. It is a rotten rope, it will not bold.
The works of sinful man are sinful. Christ
says, ‘‘A corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit.’’ Whatever grows upon the rotten tree
of human nature is rotten. ‘‘Who can bring
a clean thing out of an unclean? not ome,”’
says the Bible.

Whatever man trusts in outside of Christ is
a rotten rope. For so-called goodness of his
heart, his own works or the works of the saints,
his own religious exercises, whatever it may
be—it is a rotten rope, it will nothold. And
no matter how earnest and how sincere a man
is in trusting in such a rotten rope, his earmest-
ness and sincerity will not change the nature
of the rope. The rope is rotten, and he that
trusts in such a rotten rope—no matter how
earnest and how sincere his trust is—he that
trusts in such a rotten rope as a means O* es-
cape from the fire of hell will find out tha t the
rope is rotten, he will fall into everlasting
death. The Bible plainly says, ‘‘He that whath
not the Son of God hath not life.” He may
have many other things, if he hath not the
Son of God he hath not life.

There is only One on whom our helpless
soul can hang with the full assurance that the
rope will not break. It is Jesus, the Son of
God, who came into the world to seek and to

rope had never been used, it looked strong] save that which is lost. He Himself says, ‘‘I

and good; but it was rotten, and gave way

am theway.’? And the apostle says, ‘‘Nei ther

so soon as the strain of her weight came| jg there salvation in any other; for there #820

upon it.

The poor woman was sincere in her belief| whereby we must be saved.”’

that the rope was sound and that it would hold
her weight, but her sincerity did not make
itso. The rope was rotten; it broke and she
fell to her death.

other name under heaven given among m™€0,
Jesus is the
Lamb of God that bore our sins and end=1red
all the punishment that we deserved. W®h0-
soever Clings to Him and trusts in Him for sal-
vation will not be deceived. He is not c¥'98-

How many there are who are trusting in a| ing to a rotten rope. No. He is clingin Z

Totten rope as a means of escape from the
wrath to come. They trust in the so-called
goodness of their hearts. It is a rotten rope,
itwillnot hold. The heart of man is corrupted
by sin; it is rotten to the core. Christ says,
“Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur-

the Son of God, in whom there is pardon,
life, and everlasting salvation. Thereto%”
is written, ‘‘He that believeth on the Son
everlasting life.”’

“Other refuge have I none;
Hangs my helpless soul on Thee.”

it

The Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth
us from all sin. 1 John 1,7.

There was once a caravan crossing to the
north of India, and numbering in its company
a godly and devout missionary. As it passed
slong, 2 poor old man was overcome by the
heat and labors of the journey, and, sinking
down, was left to perish on the road. The
missionary saw him, and kneeling down at his
side, when the rest had passed along whis-
pered into his ear, ‘‘What is your hope?’’
The dying man raised himself a little to reply,
and with a great effort succeeded in answer-
ing, ‘‘The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us
from all sin,’’ and immediately expired with
the effort. The missionary was greatly aston-
ished at the answer, and at the calm and peace-
ful appearance of the man; he felt assured he
had died in Christ. How or when, he thought,
could this man, seemingly a heathen, have
gotten the knowledge of this salvation? And,
as he thought of it, he observed a piece of
paper grasped tightly in the hand of the dead
man, which he succeeded in getting from his
grasp. What do you think was his surprise
and delight when he found it was a single leaf
of the Bible, containing the first chapter of the
First Epistle of John, in which the above text
occurs. On that page the man had found the
Word of Life.

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She Burned the Bushel.

‘*Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers
only.’? A woman went to hear a sermon, in
which, among other evil practices, the use of
dishonest weights and measures was exposed.
With this discourse she was much affected.
The next day, when the pastor, according to
his custom, went among his hearers, and called
upon the woman, he took occasion to ask her
what she remembered of his sermon. She
complained much of her bad memory and said
she had forgotten almost all that he had said.
“But one thing,”” said she, ‘I remembered;
¥ remembered'to burn my bushel.’? A doer

of the Word cannot really be a forgetful
hearer.

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