The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 25

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

Pubiisnep by THE EvancenicaL Lutneran Synopicat. ConrereNce or Nort AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFYF, Eprror.

Entered at the Post Ofice at St. Loms, Mo., as second-class matter.

Vol. XXXIII.

Easter Day.

O day of joy and gladness,
This is the day of days;

Away all tears and sadness,
And raise the hymns of praise!
For Christ, the Lord, is risen,
Let. earth with anthems ring!
He burst the bars of prison,
And rose triumphant King.

O day of grace and splendor,

O day of holy joy!

To Thee just praise we render
For peace none can destroy.

It is the old, old story,

Yet always ever new,

That Christ, the Lord of glory,
Arose this day for you.

O day of joy and gladness,

O blessed day of days!

Away all tears and sadness;
With songs our voices raisc!
We'll sing the new old story
Till all the wide world rings,
Our Christ is King in glory,
And He is King of kings!

Amelia Starkweather.

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Easter Message.

The believer’s hope is built “on nothing less
than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.” Is that a
good foundation on which to build our hope of
salvation ? ‘pou

True, Jesus came into the world to redeem sin-
ners by fulfilling all righteousness in their stead and
by shedding His blood for the remission of sins.

ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1911.

But did He finish the work which He came to do?
On the cross He cried out: “It is finished!” Then
He bowed His head in death, and His body was laid
in the grave. Had He remained in death and the
grave, then we might well doubt that the work of
our redemption is finished. We could then not
build our hope on Jesus’ blood and righteousness
with the full assurance that we shall not be dis-
appointed. The Apostle Paul says: “If Christ be
not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith
is also vain. If Christ be not raised, ye are yet in
your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep
in Christ are perished.”

But Christ did not remain in death and the
grave. On the third day He rose from the dead.
On Faster morning the grave was found empty,
and an angel brought the glad message: “He is
risen! He is not here!” Before this glorious Easter
message every shadow of doubt must vanish as the
shadows of darkness vanish before the rising sun.
Christ is risen! The work of our redemption is
finished. The Christian’s faith is not vain. The
resurrection of Christ gives him the assurance that
in Christ he has redemption thtough His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins. Christ “was delivered
for our offenses, and was raised again for our justi-
fication,” says the apostle. By raising Christ from
the dead God the Father declared Himself perfectly
satisfied with the work of His Son, and justified us
in Him who was our Substitute.

From Christ’s resurrection we see, that He has
made full atonement for sin; that His blood cleanses
us from all sin, that, He has procured for us a right-
eousness in which we can stand before God. The-
believer, in Jesus, therefore, has a good foundation
on which to build his hope of salvation. In the