The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1908, Page 38

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All for. Jesus.

I'll leave it all with Jesus
Who bore my load of sin;

He keeps me from temptation
And gives me peace within.
T-want to live for Jesus,

My Savior and my: Friend. _
In gentle tones He tells me,
“T'll help thee to -the end.”

I'll give -my heart to, Jesus
Who. gave His life for me
In bitter pain and anguish
Upon the cruel tree.

There is no friend like Jesus,
So: lowly, meek, and mild,
Who in His tender mercy
Will save a sinful child.

I long to be with Jesus
In that bright home above,
Where there’s no pain or sorrow,
But all is joy and love.
And while I wait for Jesus, .
My earnest prayer shall be
That, I may live to serve Him
Who did so much for me.°
EsTuEk PETERSON.

Our. Duty towards Our Neighbor.

Luther writes: “You have a neighbor whose life
and conversation is well-known to you, but is un-
known to your pastor, or at least not known so well;
for how could he be acquainted with every indi-
vidual’s manner of life? Therefore, when you see
that your neighbor is. becoming: rich by dishonest
business and practices, that he lives in licentious-
ness and adultery, or that-he trains and governs_his
household negligently ‘and’ carelessly, you should
first admonish him and in a Christian manner warn
him, that he may seek his salvation and avoid: giv-
ing offense. And, O, what a good and blessed work
you have done, if you thus gain-your.brother! But,
alas, who does this? For, in the first place, truth
is an. unwelcome.-thing; ‘whoever speaks the truth
makes enemies; therefore you ‘would rather retain
your neighbor’s favor and friendship, especially if
he is rich and powerful, than to anger him and
make him your enemy. So if: the other ‘neighbor
does the same, and the third and fourth also, the
first admonition fails, and with it the second .and
third also, by which your neighbor might have been
testored to. the right way, if you had only vy ad-
monishing hii. done what was; your duty.”

The Lutheran Pioneer.

Teaching a Minister.

Shortly after the War, a party of friends were
spending an evening at the house of General Lee
in Richmond. During the conversation a minister
spoke in very bitter words about certain people as
hateful enemies. General Lee spoke of these per-
sons ina conciliatory manner and soon turned the
conversation into other channels.

Presently the minister got up to go, and General
Lee followed him out to the door and said to him
yery earnestly: “Doctor, there is a good old book
which I read, and you preach from, which says,
‘Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.’ Do
you think your remarks this evening were quite in
the spirit of that teaching?”

The Doctor made some apology for the bitter-
ness which he had expressed, and thanked his Chris-
tian friend for his kind words of reproof.

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Bad Bargains.

A teacher asked his scholars if any recollected
an instance in Scripture of a bad bargain.

“I do,” replied a boy; “Esau made a bad bar-
gain when he sold his birthright for a mess of
pottage.”

A second said, “Judas made a bad bargain when
he sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver.”

A third boy observed, “Our Lord tells us that
he makes a bad bargain who, to gain the whole
world, loses his own soul.” A bad bargain indeed !

No Fear of Death.

“Knowest thou not,” said Luther to Death, the
King of Terrors, “that thou didst devour the Lord
Christ, but wast obliged to give Him back, and wast
then thyself devoured of Him? So thou must leave
me undeyoured, because: I abide in Him, and live
and suffer for His name’s sake. Men may send me
out of the world, —for that I care not,—but I
shall not on that account abide in death; I shall
live with my Lord Christ, for I know and believe
that He liveth.”

Tue devil always finds ‘logic with which to
convince his followers. — Walter: Scott. .