The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 9

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PuBLISHUED BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTimeraN SyNoDICAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF, Editor.

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

Vol. XXX.

Call Them In!

“As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.”
Matt. 22, 9.

“Call them in,’— the poor, the wretched,
Sin-stained wanderers from the fold;
Peace and pardon freely offer;

Can you weigh their worth with gold?

“Call them in,’— the weak, the weary,
Laden with the doom of sin;

Bid them come and rest in Jesus,

He is waiting —“call them in!”

“Call them in,’—the Jew, the Gentile;
Bid the stranger to the feast:

“Call them in,’’—the rich, the noble,
From the highest to the least.

Forth the Father runs to meet them,
He hath all their sorrows seen;

Robe, and ring, and royal sandals
Wait the lost ones —“call them in!”

“Call them in,’’— the broken-hearted,
Cow’ring ’neath the brand of shame;
Speak love’s message low and tender,
"Twas for sinners Jesus came.

See the shadows lengthen round us,

Soon the day-dawn will begin;

Can you leave them lost and lonely?
Christ is coming —“call them in!”

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“Come and See!”’

In the first chapter of the Gospel according to
St. John we twice read the invitation: “Come and
see!” It was first given by Christ Himself to the
two disciples of John who followed Him after they
had heard John say of Jesus: “Behold the Lamb
of God!” One of the two that followed Jesus was

St. Louis, Mo., February, 1908.

No. 2.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. Having accepted
the invitation and having found the Messiah, the
promised Savior, he longed to bring others to Him.
Therefore, when he met his brother Simon, he said
to him, “We have found the Messiah.” And he
brought him to Jesus. The day following, Jesus
found Philip and said unto him, “Follow me!”
Philip obeyed, and thus found Him of whom Moses
and the prophets did write, and having himself
found Christ, he also longed to bring others to Him.
He at once told his friend Nathanael about Jesus
and said, “Come and sce!” And he brought him
to the Savior.

Jesus is still with us in the Gospel, and the in-
vitation still goes out to every sinner: “Come and
see!” Come and sce Jesus in the Gospel! Come
and see what He has done for you; see how He
loved you and gave Himself for you; how He lived
and suffered and bled and died for you!. Come and
see what gifts He has for you: forgiveness of sins,
and peace, and salvation. Come and see how ready
He is to receive you and to bless you with His love
and His everlasting joy!

Thousands have accepted the invitation and have
by faith found and seen Jesus, their Savior, in the,
Gospel, and their hearts have been filled with joy
and also with the desire to bring others to the same
happiness. Those who have found Jesus in the Gos-
pel and can say with Philip: “We have found Him,”
will also long to say to others: “Come and see!”
They will tell others of Jesus’ love, and will help
in all mission work by which the story of that love
is brought to poor dying sinners. ‘There is no
sweeter invitation for you to hear and no sweeter
invitation for you to give than the invitation:
“Come and see Jesus!”