The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1904, Page 57

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY

MIONTHLY.

PuBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LurHERAN SynopICcAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXVI.

None Other Name.

“There is none other name under heaven given among men
whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4, 12.

Is thy heart of sin aweary?
Jesus is the sinner’s Friend.
Do thy faithless friends forsake thee?
Jesus’ love is without end.
Thou wilt seek in vain for rest
Elsewhere. than the Saviour’s breast.

Dost thou doubt if God doth love thee?
Hark! and let thy doubts be done:
‘God so loved the world’’ of sinners,
“That He gave His only Son,’’
That whoe’er in Him believe
Might eternal life receive.

Dost thou think, ‘‘Ah! well, perhaps so;
But there’s time enough for me’’?
This is only Satan’s whisper,
He’d be fain detaining thee.
Every hour that passeth by
Brings thee near eternity.

Friend, I pray thee cease this folly,
And this trifling with thy God.
Jesus waits, with love and mercy,
Pleading still His own life’s blood,
How He died that thou mightst be
Glad for all eternity.

Jesus is the blessed Saviour,
And His heart is e’er the same,
His the love, the power, that saves us;
And “there is none other name”
Which on earth has e’er been given

Whereby we may enter heaven. HH. M.

. “Just Trust It.”

A preacher was making a pastoral visit to an
old Scotch woman, who had for a long time been
tryirig to be saved, but who cotld find no peace be-

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cause she would not simply trust in the work of
Christ.. Her cottage could be reached only by pass-
ing over a rapid-brook that was bridged by a single
plank. At first the preacher feared to step upon
the plank, but the woman, seeing his hesitation,
hurried from the door with the cry, ‘‘Just trust it.”’
He did trust it, and in a moment stood by her side.
“‘Woman,’’ he then said, ‘‘the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth us from all sin; just trust it.’? She did
trust it, and no longer trying to save herself, but
trusting simply and fully in the work of Christ,
she found peace, and her peace was like a river.

It is the work of Christ that saves us. Not the
work of Christ and something added, but the work
of Christ alone. The sinner that trusts it has peace
and salvation. But he must trust in the Saviour’s
work only, not in Christ’s work and also in his own
work. Ifthere are two planks laid across a stream,
one of which is sound and the other rotten, he who
tries to walk on both will as certainly fall into the
water as if neither were strong enough to bear his
weight. So he who partly trusts in Christ’s work,
and partly in his own work, partly in the righteous-
ness of Christ, and partly in his own righteousness,
will surely fail of eternal life. ‘‘I am the Way,”
says Christ. And His apostle says, ‘‘Neither is
there salvation in any other; for there is none other
name under heaven given among men whereby we
must be saved.’’? Christ is the only way, and He is
all the way to heaven. His blood cleanseth from
allsin; He paid all the debt we owe; He suffered all
the punishment we deserved; He did all the work
God required to be done, “‘that He might be just,
and the Justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.”
Therefore Christ is the only way and all the way to
heaven. -They that trust in His work only are on
the way to everlasting life. Itisnot by man’s work, -