The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, Page 25

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SyNODICAL CONFERENCE or Nortit AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXIX.

Satisfied.

O Jesus! Friend unfailing,

Ilow dear Thou art to me!

Are cares or fears assailing?

1 find my strength in Thee!

Why should my feet grow weary
Of this, my pilgrim way?

Rough though the path, and dreary,
It ends in perfect day.

Naught, naught I count as treasure,
Compared, O Christ, with Thee!

Thy sorrow without measure

Earned peace and joy for me.

I love to own, Lord Jesus,

Thy claims o’er me and mine;
Bought with Thy blood most precious,
Whose can I be but Thine?

What fills my soul with gladness?
’Tis Thine abounding grace!
Where can I look in sadness,

But, Jesus, on Thy face?

My all is Thy providing;

Thy love can ne’er grow cold;

In Thee, my Refuge, hiding,

No good wilt Thou withhold.

Oh! worldly pomp and glory,
Your charms are spread in vain.
I’ve heard a sweeter story,

T’ve found a truer gain!

Where Christ a place prepareth,
There is my loved abode;

There shall I gaze on Jesus,
There shall I dwell with God!

For every tribulation,

For every sore distress,

_In Christ I’ve full salvation,
Sure help and peace and rest,
No fears of foes prevailing!
I triumph, Lord, in Thee!

O Jesus! Friend unfailing!

How dear Thou art to me! Selected.

St. Louis, Mo., Aa 1907. No. 4.

Peace Through Christ.

When sin came into the world, peace between
God and man came to an end; for sin is enmity
against God, sin is rebellion against the Almighty.

In order that peace might be made between God
and man, Christ came into the world to put away
sin. When the Lord laid upon Him the iniquity
of us all, when Christ bore our sins in His own
body on the tree, suffering the punishment due to
our sin, the chastisement of our peace was upon
Him. We thus “put away sin by the sacrifice of
Himself” and “made peace through the blood of
His cross.”

When Christ rose from the dead, it was made
clear that the work which He came to do was
finished. “The God of peace brought again from
the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the
sheep,” says the apostle. By bringing Christ again
from the dead God declared Himself perfectly satis-
fied with the work of His Son. He declared that
sin has been put away, and that peace has been
made.

The risen Savior, on the evening of Easter Day,
therefore came to His disciples with the sweet
greeting: “Peace be unto you!” The greeting was
not a mere wish, the words were not empty words.
No; they were the words of the risen Son of God,
and God’s words are not empty words, but are filled
with blessing and bring that of which they speak.
Luther therefore says: “God speaks not words, but
things.” When the risen Savior said to His sad
and troubled disciples: “Peace be unto you!” He
brought them the whole blessing of His finished
work. He came from the cross and from the grave
as the mighty Conqueror, and brought them peace