The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1910, Page 41

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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Pusiisuep by THE EvancenicaL Lutneran Synopica Conrerence or Nonru AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFY, Eprror.

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

Vol. XXXII.

Christ’s Messengers.

Ye messengers of Christ!

Ilis sovereign voice obey;

Arise, and follow where He leads,
And peace attend your way.

The Master whom you serve
Will needful strength bestow;
Depending on His promised aid,
With sacred courage go.

Mountains shall sink to plains,
And heli in vain oppose;
The cause is God’s, and shall prevail
In spite of all Ifis foes.
Mrs. Voke.

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A Day of Good Tidings.

In the sixth and seventh chapters of the Second
Book of Kings we read that the Syrians besieged
the city of Samaria, and there was a great famine
in the city, so that many were dying of hunger.
In this great need God showed mercy to His people.
He made the enemy hear the rumbling of chariots
and the trampling of horses, so that they fled in
wild panic, leaving behind them their camp filled
with good things. : .

This deliverance which God wrought in behalf
of Israel was discovered by four starving lepers,
who were sitting at the gate of the city. Death
stared them in the face if they went into the city,
death was working in their Jeprous bodies, and they
could but die if they fell into the hands of the
enemy. So, with death behind, before, and within
them, they ventured forth into the night and went
to the camp of the Syrians. And “behold, there
was no man there,” for God had come to the help

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of His people.
to tent.

The four lepers walked from tent
All was silence. They found silver, and

gold, and raiment, and food in abundance. “Then
they said, one to another, We do not well: this day

is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace; if
we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will
come upon us.”: They considered it their duty to
make known the good tidings of God’s deliverance,
lest more mischief come upon them.

Weare living in a day of good tidings. It is
the Gospel day, the day of sAmasion, “Behold,
now is the accepted time, now is the day of sal-
vation!” Christians have the Gospel, the good ti-
dings of God's deliverance through Jesus, the Savior
of sinners. In that Gospel they have found life and
salvation for their own souls. In that Gospel they
rejoice. But they must not forget that they are
responsible to carry to others the glad tidings of
salvation. As the Church views the many hated:
of souls famishing for the bread of life, dying in
sin, she may well say: “We do not well: this day
is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace;
if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief
will come upon us.” If souls die for lack of the
Gospel, are we guiltless of their blood? Let us,
then, not tarry in indolence and indifference, lest
some mischief come upon us when Jesus appears.
Let us rather be active in all mission work, helping
Christ’s messengers to make known the Gospel for
the salvation of sinners, in this day of good tidings.
Time is short; for Jesus says, “Behold, I come
quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every
mar according as his work shall be,” Rey. 22, 12.

WHERE there is faith there is life —spiritual ~
life.

And that life will make itself manitest.