The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 57

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PusiisvED BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTnerAN SynopicaL CoNFERENCE oF Nortu AMERICA.

R. A. BISCHOFF,

Entered at the Post Of_ice at St. Louis, Mo.,

Vol. XXXIV.

ST. LOUIS, bot august, 1912.

Epiror.

as second-class matter.

“Lift Up Your Eyes!”

“Lift up your eyes,” the Savior says;
“Behold the whitened fields;

The patient sowing of the Word

A waving harvest yields.”

“Lift up your eyes,” the Savior says;
“Behold, the golden grain

Is ripened by my bitter tears,

My passion, and my pain.”

“Lift up your eyes,” the Savior says;
“Seed that ye have not sown

Bends ready for the harvester

In distant lands unknown.”

Lift up your eyes, despondent onc,
Nor let your spirits droop;
God’s husbandmen on many a field
O’er glorious harvests stoop.

Go forth, then, happy reaper-band,
Look unto Christ for strength!
With many sheaves, from many climes,

Ye shall return at length. : :
Rev. R. BE. Little.

The Compassionate Savior.

Luther tells us that in his schooldays he did
not learn to know Jesus as a compassionate Savior.
*T was accustomed,” he says, “to become pale and
terror-stricken when I heard the name of Christ
“mentioned; for I was not taught to think of Him
otherwise than as of a rigorous and angry Judge.”
And again he says: “We were shamefully deceived
under the papacy, for Christ was not set before ys
in His compassion, but He was represented as
terrible, so that we feared Him more than we did
Moses. bh

_ From the Bible he later learned to know Christ
as the compassionate Savior, who, moved by com-

passion on lost sinners, came into the world for -
their salvation, and of whom we read again and
again that He had compassion on all who were in
distress and sorrow. He is the good Samaritan
who came where the wounded traveler was; and
“when He saw him, He had compassion,” Luke
10, 33.

The outcast leper came to Him for help, and
“Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand
and touched him and saith unto him, I alls be
thou clean,” Mark 1, 40. 41.

The blind asked Him for sight, and “Jesus had
compassion on them, and touched their eyes, and
immediately their eyes received sight,” Matt. 20, 34.

He met the poor, weeping widow on her way
to bury her only son, and when He saw her, “He
had compassion on her and said unto her, Weep
not!” Luke 7, 12. 13.

He met the man “with an‘evil spirit,” and He
delivered him from the power of the devil and said
to him, “Go home to thy friends and tell them how
great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath
had compassion on thee,” Mark 5, 19.

As the compassionate Savior, He went about
among the people that were led astray by false
teachers and. knew not the way of life. He preached
to them the Gospel of the kingdom. “But when He
saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion
on them, because they fainted, and were scattered
abroad as sheep having no shepherd. ‘Then saith
He unto His disciples, The harvest, truly, is plen-
teous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore

the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth

laborers into His harvest,” Matt. 9, 36—38.
Blessed. Jesus! He is still the same compas-

sionate Savior. There is no change in Him. He ©

is “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day,