The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1906, Page 57

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PuBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNODICAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

* ¥ntered at the Post Oflice at St. Louls, Mo., as second-class matter.

Vol. XXVIII. Louis, Mo., August, 1906.

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Christ Our Sole Refuge.

Thy works, not mine, O Christ,
Speak gladness to this heart;
They tell me all is done;

They bid my fear depart.

To whom, save Thee,

Who didst alone

For sin atone,

Lord, shall I flee?

Thy wounds, not mine, O Christ,
Can heal my bruised soul;

Thy stripes, not mine, contain
The balm that makes me whole.
To whom, save Thee,

Who didst alone

For sin atone,

Lord, shall I flee?

Thy cross, not mine, O Christ,
Has borne the awful load

Of sins that none in heaven
Or earth could ‘bear but God.
To whom, save Thee,

Who didst alone

For sin atone,

Lord, shall I flee?

Thy death, not mine, O Christ,
Has paid the ransom due;
Ten thousand deaths like mine
Would have been all too few.
To whom, save Thee,

Who didst alone

For sin atone,

Lord, shall I flee?

Thy righteousness, O Christ,
Alone can cover me;

No righteousness avails,
Save that which is of Thee.
To whom, save Thee,

Who didst alone

For sin atone,

Lord, shall I flee?

Selected.

The Sinner’s Refuge.

Jesus is the sinner’s refuge. Jesus only, be-
cause in Him alone there is salvation. “Neither
is there salvation in any other; for there is none
other name under heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved,” says the apostle. In any other
person, in any other name there is no salvation to
be found. Apart from Jesus there is no peace, no
hope, no salvation for the sinner; for out of Christ
“God is a consuming fire,” denouncing wrath and
damnation upon every sinner. But in Christ God
is a loving God, offering forgiveness and salvation
unto the chief of sinners. For “God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto Himself.” Jesus, the
Son of God, took the sinner’s place and bore the
sinner’s curse, thus procuring salvation for all by
His holy life, by His bitter sufferings and death.
Therefore salvation is to be found in Him only,
and therefore He alone can be the sinner’s refuge.

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

We make Him our refuge by accepting the Gos-
pel, in which He comes to us with forgiveness of
sins and everlasting salvation. The sinner that by
faith accepts the Gospel .and trusts in Jesus only
for salvation, makes Jesus his refuge and is safe.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only-
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

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

We do not belong to this life, but_are called to
another, and a far better. — Tuther.