The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 57

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PusiisHeD BY tne EvancenicaL Lutneran SynopicaL CoNFERENCE oF Nort AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFYF, Epiror.

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

Vol. XXXI.

A Prayer for Reapers.

Far and near the fields are teeming
With the waves of ripened grain;
Far and near their gold is gleaming
O’er the sunny slope and plain.

Lord of harvest, send forth reapers!
Hear us, Lord, to Thee we ery;

Send them now the sheaves to gather,
Ere the harvest time pass by.

Send them forth with morn’s first beaming,
Send them in the noontide’s glare;
When the sun’s last rays are gleaming,

Bid them gather everywhere.
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Turn to Jesus.

If it is the sense of sin which troubles you, then
turn at once to Him with whom you have to do.
Remember, it is not with Satan that you have to
do, nor with your accusing conscience, but with
Jesus. He will deal with all the rest; you have to
deal with Him only. And He is your great High
Priest. He has made full atonement for you — for
the very sins that are weighing on you now. The
blood of that atonement, His own precious blood,
cleanseth us from all sin. The apostle plainly says:
“The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us
from all sin,” 1 John 1, 7%. - Cleanseth whom?
People that have not sinned? No. “Cleanseth us”
—us who have sinned. Cleanseth from how many
sins? From some only? -No. “From all sin.” And
you have to do with Him who shed that blood for
your cleansing, who His own self bore your sins in
His own body on the tree, and who now comes to.

ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST, 1909.

No. 8.

you in the Gospel as your Savior, offering you for-
giveness of sins, life, and salvation. It is His voice
which speaks to you in the Gospel: “I have blotted
out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have re-
deemed thee,” Is. 44, 22.

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God’s Love Is Our Comfort.

Not our love to God, but God’s love to us is the
source of true comfort. The apostle says: “Herein
is love, not that we loved Him, but that He loved
us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our
sins.”

A well-meaning friend, praying by the bedside
of a pastor laid low by weakness, said in his prayer:
“Tord, Thou knowest how he loves Thee.”

“Ah, do not plead that,” cried the invalid; “my
love to Him is not my comfort; it is His love to
me. ‘Lord, he whom Thou lovest is sick.’ ”

The same plea may go up to heaven for you,
dear Christian. Amid all your need and weakness
and trouble you are one that God loves. He has
loved you with an everlasting love and has made
you His child, for which He cares in loving kindness.
Therefore fear no evil evermore.

Thy love, dear Lord, not mine,
Speaks comfort to my heart.

Tt tells me I am Thine
And bids all fear depart.

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WHEN you hear the Gospel inviting you to come
to Jesus, then say not: “I can’t come, I am a great
sinner.’ That is the very reason why you should
come.