The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1905, Page 49

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Che Lutheran Pioneer,

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MISSIONARY

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MOONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LurneraNn SyNnopIcau CONFERENCE OF Nortn America.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

Entered at the Post Ofice at St. Louls, Mo., as second-class matter.

Vol. XXVII.

No Other Name.

There is no Saviour but my Lord,
There is no Gospel but His Word;
Upon that Word I stay my soul

Till earth and heaven away shall roll.

There is none other than His name

To save from guilt and death and shame;
And in that name my heart shall trust—

Yea, when this frame shall sink to dust.

There’s no atonement but His cross,

All earthly means are death and loss:
And through that cross my soul shall stand
Among the just, at God’s right hand.

There is no refuge but in Him,
Secure, when sun and stars are dim;
’Tis there this guilty soul shall hide
And through eternal years abide.

No other name to man is given,
No name beneath the vault of heaven—
That name upon the cross engraved—

By which the guilty must be saved.
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None Other Name.

The commencement speaker has again been
heard in the land. From papers sent to us we see
that in an address to the graduating class of a col-
ored school the speaker admonished the graduates
to lead an industrious and virtuous life. That was
all right. But then the speaker also said: ‘‘In-
dustry and virtue will not only open the door to
success in this world, but also the door to everlast-
ing bliss in the other world.”? And that was all
wrong. Christ has opened to sinners the door of
heaven, and only by faith in Him we come to ever-
lasting bliss. Christ says: ‘‘I am the door; by me
if any man enter-in, he shall be sayed,’’ John 10, 9.

_ St. Louis, Mo., July, 1905.

Another speaker, addressing the graduates of a
Young Ladies’ Seminary, pointed out to them how
much good they might do by avoiding idleness and
by leading a life of labor in this world. That was
all right. But the speaker was all wrong when he
said that ‘“‘by hard labor we might even gain the
favor of God in the world to come.’’ He told the
story of a young girl who, when only fourteen
years old, was left alone with four younger broth-
ers and sisters to care for. By scrubbing and wash-
ing and other hard labor she proved faithful to her
trust. At last she broke down and could work no
longer. On her dying bed she complained to a
friend that she ‘‘never had time enough or clothes
good enough to go to Sunday school,” and she won-
dered whether God would receive her in heaven.
“Show Him your hands,’ her friend said, ‘‘just
show Him your hands.’’ Thus she was pointed,
not to Christ’s work, but to her work as entitling
her to God’s favor. And yet the speaker who re-
lated the silly story is said to have made ‘‘a great
hit with the touching story which called forth tears
from the eyes of the pretty graduates.”’ P

Another speaker, addressing a number of grad-
uating nurses in a Western hospital, spoke ‘‘very
eloquently of the beauties of mercy and charity.’’
That was all right. But the speaker was all wrong
when he said: ‘“‘If you practice mercy and charity,
every minister of the Gospel will be willing to sign
yourbond for eternity.’’? There are still, thank God,
ministers of the Gospel who know what Gospel is, -
and who would not sign such a bond. Not all are
like that Baptist minister who, at a recent meeting
of the Universalist Church Society in New England,
said: ‘‘What difference does it make what our doc-
trine is? The kingdom of heaven has many roads
leading out in all directions. What matters it which