The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 20

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Savior in Gethsemane.

“Go to dark Gethsemane,

Ye that feel the tempter’s power:
- Your Redeemer’s conflict see,

Watch with Him one bitter hour;

Turn not from His griefs away;

Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.”

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' Chrtst’s Bloody Sweat.

Dr. Martin Luther was once questioned concern-
ing the deep spiritual sufferings and the “bloody
sweat” which Christ endured in the Garden of Geth-
semane.. He said: “No, no man can know or even
conceive what that anguish must have been. If any
man were to experience such suffering, he would
most surely die. You know many do die of sickness

of heart; for heart-anguish is indeed death. If a
man could feel such anguish and distress as Christ
felt, it would be impossible for him to endure it and
his soul remain in the flesh, soul and body would
part. Christ alone could endure this agony, and
from Him it wrung ‘sweat’ which was as great drops
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Christ’s Sacrifice for Sin.

However great our sin and the wrath which it
deserves, the sacrifice and the death of the Son of
God is infinitely greater, being a sure sign to us,
that for its sake God will be gracious unto us and
forgive our sins. — Luther.

“To KNow Christ is to know His benefits.”