The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1907, 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.

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

Vol. XXIX.

. St. Toate, Riou Acawast: 1907. [ “A No. S.

Jesus Alone.

Jesus, the Holy One,

God's well-beloved Son,

The great salvation won,
Jesus alone.

On Him my sin was laid;

He full atonement made;

He all my debt has paid;
[ am His own.

He keeps me every day,
He guides my upward way,
He helps me wateh and pray,
Jesus, my Lord!
When tempests dark arise,
And cover all the skies,
On Him my soul relies,
And His sweet Word.

O praise His holy name!
His mighty love proclaim,
And spread abroad the fame

Of His great worth.
Glory and honor be
To His great majesty,
Throughout eternity,

In heaven and earth!

Selected.

Christ — the Way to Heaven.

“T am the way,” says Christ; “no man cometh
unto the Father but by me,” John 14, 6.

Christ is the way to the Father, the way to the
heavenly home, the only way. He does not say,
“I am @ way,” as if He were one of several ways
that lead to the same place. No. He says, “I am
the way.” There is only one way to heaven, and
that way is Christ. Just as there is only one
Savior, only one Mediator who through the blood
of His cross made peace between God and man, and

redeemed us from sin and all its woe. That one
Mediator, that one Savior is Christ, and Christ only.
St. Paul says, “There is one God, and one Mediator
between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who
gave Himself a ransom for all.” St. Peter says of
Jesus: “Neither is there salvation in any other;
for there is none other name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved.” All the
prophets and apostles point to Christ as the only
One in whom we have “redemption through THis
blood, the forgiveness of sins.” Therefore the
saints in heaven, who surely know how they got
there, give all praise and glory to Christ, singing
at the throne of the Lamb: “Thou wast slain, and
hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation,”
Rey. 5, 9. Every one that gets to heaven will join
in that song; for Christ is the only way to that
happy place. Those who try to get there by their
own righteousness or by any other way than by
Christ will never succeed. Christ says, “I am the
way;” ““no man cometh unto the Father but by
me.” And it is plainly written: “He that believeth
on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that be-
lieveth not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath
of God abideth on him,” John 3, 36. Christ is the
only way to heaven. very other way leads to hell.

“T am the way,” says Christ. Not part of the
way, but tHE way. He is the onLY way, and He is
ALL the way to heaven. He paid at the debt we
owed; He suffered att the punishment we de-
served; He did ati the work God required to be
done, “that He might be just, and the Justifier of
him which believeth in Jesus.” Therefore Christ
is ALL the way to heaven. Not half the way, nor
two-thirds of the way, nor nine-tenths of the way,