The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1911, Page 60

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All of Grace.

Just so much as is given to man in the matter
of salvation, just so much is taken from the mercy
of God and the most holy merits of Christ, and of
just so much man can boast. Salvation is altogether
by grace, through faith in the merits of Jesus. The
Bible plainly says: “By grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift
of God; not of works, lest any man should boast,”
Eph. 2, 8. 9.

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Prof. F.Wahlers. Prof. J. Ph. Schmidt. Prof. M. Lochner.
Prof. N. J. Bakke,
until lately President of College; now Field Secretary.

FACULTY OF IMMANUEL COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N.C.

Lead Others to Christ.

Dear PIoNEER : —

Would if not be said of many of us, if we should
be cut down, that our lives have been almost a
failure, perhaps entirely a failure as far as leading
any one else to Christ is concerned? Dear Christian
friend, are you working for the Son of God? Are
you trying to win some soul to Christ? Have you
tried to get some friend-or companion to drink of
the living waters of salvation? Or must you say,
Long years have rolled away since I became a child

of God, and I have never had the privilege of lead-
ing one soul to the Savior? If there is one who has
never had the joy of leading even one soul into the -
kingdom of God, oh! let him begin at once. ‘There
is no greater privilege on earth. Oh, may God wake
up the Church! Let us trim our lights, and go
forth and work for the kingdom of God’s Son!

X.

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Mission: Apples.

Several years ago the secretary of a mission
society received the following letter from a country
pastor: “Enclosed please find one dollar for our
mission treasury. It is the gift of a little girl who,
two years ago, departed this life to be with her
Lord and Savior.

“One evening she went with her mother into the
orchard that surrounded her home. Looking at the
trees, she said, ‘Mamma, I wish you would give
me one apple-tree to be entirely my own.’

“Why, my child,’ replied the mother, ‘they are
all yours, yours as well as mine. If we live until

‘they bear fruit, you will have your share as well

as I, and we shall both rejoice together.’ 4

‘Yes,’ replied the girl, ‘but that is not what I
mean. I should like to have one whose apples I
could give to God as mission apples.’

“Her mother allowed her to pick out one of the
trees as her own. She chose the most beautiful one,
and laying her hands on its trunk, said, ‘From now
on you belong to God.’ ,

“This year the tree for the first time bore fruit,
and I send you the profit therefrom for our mission
treasury. Thus she, though dead, yet speaketh.”

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Willing to Work for Christ.

A missionary asked one of his converts, whom
he considered well gifted and trustworthy, to pre-
pare for service in the mission-field, and to devote
himself to the preaching of the Gospel to his coun-
trymen. ‘The missionary frankly told him that he
should be able to give him only eight shillings a
month instead of the twenty the young man was
now getting as a boatman. {

“Can you go for eight shillings?” asked the
missionary. :

The man sat thinking. -It seemed hard for him
to make up his mind to go. But at last he looked
up and said, “I cannot go for eight shillings, but
T can go for Christ.” c