The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 10

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have meditated upon the sufferings of your Savior.
Your faith has often seen Him sweating great drops
of blood in the garden for the world of sinners.
You have before looked on in wonder and awe as
He gave His back to the smiters, His cheeks to His
tormentors, and hid not His face from shame and
spitting. With sorrowful hearts you have before
this followed Him through the streets of Jerusalem,
weeping and bewailing Him with the women. You
have watched Him as He was fastened to the tree,
you have heard His cry of woe with agonized hearts,
and you have rejoiced in His final ery of victory,
“Tt is finished !”

But know you not that there are still many of
your fellow-men to whom this sad and yet sweet
Gospel is unknown? Know you not that there are
still millions who know nothing of this Lamb of
God that has borne the sins of the whole world?
Know you not that there are still countless multi-
tudes that know nothing of this blood of Jesus
Christ, God’s Son, which cleanses us from all sin?
And will you not help to make known this saving
truth to these dying souls? O surely, you will!

If you cannot speak like angels,
If you cannot preach like Paul,
You can tell the love of Jesus,
You can say He died for all.

The Fullness that Is in Christ.

L have found it an interesting thing to stand
on the edge of a noble rolling river, and to think
that, though it has been flowing on for six thousand
years, watering the fields and slaking the thirst of
a hundred generations, it shows no sign of waste
or want. And when I have watched the rise of the
sun, as he shot above the crest of the mountains, or
in a sky draped with golden curtains sprang up
from his ocean bed, I have wondéred to think that
he has melted the snows of so many winters, and
renewed the verdure of so many springs, and painted
the flowers of so many summers, and ripened the
golden harvests of so many autumns, and yet shincs
as brilliant as ever, his eye not dim nor his natural
strength abated, nor his floods of light Jess full for

. centuries of boundless profusion. Yet what are
these but images of the fullness that is in Christ?
Let that feed your hopes, and cheer your hearts;
and brighten your faith, and send you away this
day happy and rejoicing.

For when judgment flames have licked up that
flowing stream, and the light of that glorious sun

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shall be quenched in darkness or veiled in the stioke
of a burning world, the fullness that is in Christ
shall flow on throughout eternity in the bliss of
the redeemed. Blessed Savior, Image of God, Di-
vine Redeemer, in Thy presence is fullness of joy;
at Thy right hand are pleasures forevermore. What
Thou hast gone to heaven to prepare may we be
ealled up at death to enjoy.— Dr. Guthrie.

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A Free Salvation.

The Gospel offers to all who hear it a free sal-
vation in Christ. As sure as the Gospel is preached
to you, so sure is this offer of a free salvation made
te you. ‘To come into possession of this free sal-
vation, you need but believe the Gospel, the glad
tidings that Jesus is your Savior. ‘The acceptance
of the good news of the Gospel alone can give you
peace. It was to the penitent and believing woman
that Jesus said, “Thy faith hath saved thee. Go
in peace.” Our good resolutions can give us no
peace with God, neither can our prayers or works.
Our resolutions, our prayers, our works, cannot save
us. ‘There is but one way to get peace of conscience,
only one way to gain peace with God, but one way
to be saved, and that is through faith in the precious
Gospel of Christ Jesus. And this salvation is free,
being offered and given without money and without
price, asking nothing of you but that you accept it.
Come, then, and accept this free salvation which
Jesus by His blood has procured you.

Hark! the Savior’s voice from heaven
Speaks a pardon full and free; \
Come, and thau shalt be forgiven;
Boundless mercy flows for thee.

Every sin shall be forgiven,

Thou through grace a child shalt be,

Child of God and heir of heaven, —
Yes, a mansion waits for thee.

The Christian’s Hope.

Charles Reade, in his most famous novel, Zhe
Cloister and the Hearth, has put beautiful words
into the mouth of Gerard: “Christians live forever

-and love forever, but they never part forever. You

and I part here for life; and what is our life? One
line in the great story of the church, one handful
in the sand of time, one drop in the.ocean of Jor-
ever. Adieu—for a little moment called a life!
We part in trouble, we shall meet in peace; we
part creatures of clay, we shall meet immortal