The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 49

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A. MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

Pusiisnuep By THE EvancenicaL LutneraNn Synopicat ConNFERENCE oF Nort AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFY, Eprror.

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

Vol.

XXXIV.

Speak for Jesus!

Speak for Jesus! Christian, speak!
Tell redemption’s wondrous story;
Tell lost sinners of the way

To our Father’s home in glory.

Speak for Jesus! Christian, speak!
Keep a timid silence never!
Speak — one Gospel word can save
Souls from fiercest flames forever.

Speak for Jesus! Christian, speak!
Speak! whatever be your station;
O’er a sin-cursed, ruined world
Spread our Savior’s great salvation.

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Speak for Jesus!

At a missionary meeting in a Western city, a
pastor related an incident in his own life, the story
of a poor German boy whose foot was twisted out
of shape, and whose widowed mother was poor and
could not have him operated on. ‘The pastor took
him to a celebrated doctor and asked him to take
him in charge.

The operation was successful, and when the
plaster cast had been taken off from the boy’s foot,
the pastor went to fetch him home. ‘The boy, prais-
ing the doctor who had done so much for him, said,
“It will be a long time before my mother hears
the last of this doctor.” ‘The pastor called his atten-
tion to the hospital, and the boy admired it, but
he said, “I like the doctor best.” ‘The pastor spoke
of the nurses, and the boy was interested and ex-
pressed his thankfulness for all they had done, but
again and again he referred to the doctor, “It is

all nothing compared to the doctor,” he said.

ST. LOUIS, MO., JULY, 1

912.

The pastor and the boy reached the Missouri
town, and stepped out at the station together. The
old mother was waiting to receive them. She did
not look at her boy’s face nor at his hands, but she
fell on her knees and looked at his foot, and then
said, sobbing, “It is just like any other boy’s foot.”
She rose and took him in her arms. But all the
boy kept saying to her, over and over, was, “Mother,
you ought to know the doctor that made me walk.”

When the pastor had told his story, he added:
“There is not one Christian for whom Jesus Christ
has not done many, many thousand times more than
the doctor did for this boy, yea, unspeakably more
than any doctor can do. Let us not forget to speak
for Him who has made us whole. And let us take an
active interest in missions by which others are told
of the salvation which we have found and which is
in Jesus for all sinners, and in Jesus only.”

Remember, Jesus is still saying to every one
whom He has delivered from the power of the devil,
“Tell how great things the Lord hath done for thee,
and hath had compassion on thee,’ Mark 5, 19.
Speak for Jesus!

A Service of Love.

The service which the Christian renders to God
is a service of love. He is zealous of good works,
not in order to gain salvation. No. Salvation is
by grace, not by works. God’s Word 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. The
Christian’s service springs from loving gratitude for
the salvation which he already has by grace through
faith in Christ Jesus. While there is nothing to do