The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 28

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98 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Jesus Lives!

. “He lives to silence all my fears,
He lives, to wipe away my tears,
He lives to calm my troubled heart,
He lives, all blessings to impart.”

A Word in Season.

- “Be ye also ready!” said an old woman to a
young man as they stood alone-at the coffin of a
common friend. The arrow struck home, and the
young man left the house of mourning troubled in
spirit. Those solemn words, uttered in the-presence
of death, entered his soul as the yoice of God. It
was the word spoken by a poor, illiterate woman,
and not the eloquent appeal of the gifted preacher,
which God chose to use as the instrument in this
young* man’s conversion.

-* “No matter who you are, you may speak a word
in season for some sinner’s salvation.

“Jesus Lives.”

One Sunday, after the morning’s
service, there came to a mission station
in Egypt a Moslem, accompanied by his
wife and three children. He
baptism for himself and family.

In his youth the man had attended
a Mohammedan school and had for six
years learned by heart the Koran, “the
holy book of the Mohammedans.” Tor
another six years he thoroughly studied
the doctrines of Mehammed, the false
prophet. But he felt that the more he
studied, the less he knew of the living
God. At last the thought seized him
that it was impossible to know anything
about God and divine things. This, how-
ever, made him very unhappy.

In his despair he procured a Bible
and began to read it page after page.
The longer he read, the more he loved
the book. By the grace of God he came
to faith in the Savior, and his heart re-
joiced in this faith and in the assurance
of salvation. Nor was he frightened by
the thought that for his faith he might.
have to suffer persecution and even
death. His wife, whom he led to the
same faith, he admonished again and
again to remain steadfast in love to the
Savior, no matter what might come.
“Remember,” he said, “when I am no
longer with you: Jesus lives, but Mo-
hammed: is dead.” ‘This was also her
answer when asked why she went to the
missionary to be baptized: “Jesus lives,
but Mohammed is dead.” 5

The missionary who relates this incident says:
“Such an experience fills the missionary’s heart with
joy. The fact that Jesus lives and proves Himself
a living Savior by winning the hearts of His ene-
mies through the power of the Gospel, is to: the mis-
sionary a source of encouragement and support. It
helps him to make sacrifices cheerfully, to bear bur-
dens gladly, and to meet-difficulties bravely. He
that was dead liveth and is alive forevermore. He
is with us in our work and in our trials.”

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Wuere Christ is, there surely the Gospel is be-
ing preached; where it is not preached, there Christ
is not. — Luther.

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