The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1906, Page 81

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

Puniisuep BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTHERAN SYNODICAL CONFERENCE OF Nortn AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol: XXVIII.

St. Louis, Mo., November 1906.

No. 11.

‘Blessed Are Those Servants.”

Blessed are the faithful servants
Who are watching for the Lord:
They shall meet His full approval,
They receive His great reward;
With their Lord shall enter in,
Dwell forever with their King.

Blessed are the faithful servants
Who are toiling all the day,
Bearing all the heat and burden
Of the earthly pilgrim way;
They shall enter into rest —
With the Lord'be ever blest.

Blessed are the faithful servants
Who are watching unto prayer,
Overcoming fierce temptation,
Casting on the Lord their care;
They shall reach the blessed shore,
Where the tempter tempts no more.

Blessed are the faithful servants
Who with meekness bear the cross,
For the love that Jesus bears them
Counting all things else but loss;
Soon their sufferings shall be o’er,
And the cross be felt no more.

Blessed are the faithful servants
* Who the Master’s battles fight;
Causing right o’er wrong to triumph,
Chasing darkness with the light; —
More than victors they shall be,
Crowned with joy eternally.

Blessed are the faithful servants
Who the Savior’s impress wear;

Soon they shall be wholly like Him,
And His perfect image bear:

They will see Him as He is,

In the land of light and bliss.

Selected.

Be Ye Ready!

With the close of the church year another year
of grace will end, in which Jesus came to us in the

‘Gospel for our salvation. Have you accepted Him,

and are you ready and prepared to meet Him when
He comes to judge the quick and the dead? The
same Jesus that during the time of grace comes in
His Word and Sacraments as the Savior with for-
giveness of sins and everlasting salvation will at
the end of time come in His glory as the mighty
Judge of the world. The end of the church year
reminds us of the end of all things and brings to
us with especial force the warning: “Be ye ready;
for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man
cometh.” We know neither the day nor the hour
of His coming. But we know that “it is the last
time,” and that “the end of all things is at hand.”
The violent disturbances in nature which occurred
during the past months, and which caused such
great loss of property and life, belong to the signs
of the final destruction of the world and should
remind us of the time of Christ’s coming when this
earth shall pass away. As every sickness is a sign
that man is mortal and that his dying hour will
come, so the hurricanes, and the earthquakes, and
the volcanoes are but signs that this earth will come
to an end. The violent storms are the mutterings
of far more dreadful tempests, the earthquakes are
the rumblings of far more terrible convulsions, and
the eruptions of volcanoes are but the faint glow
of far fiercer fires that shall come upon the earth
on the day of the Lord’s coming, “in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth
also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt

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