The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1913, Page 65

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The Lutheran Pioneer, —

A. MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL Lutieran Synopicai Conrerence or Nort AMERICA.
REV. F. J. LANKENAU, Epiror.

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

Thy Will Be Done.

Father, Thy will be done;
Thy will is good.

I am not yet alone,

Thou, O my God,

Thou, Lord, art with me still;
Thy love and gracious will
Cannot decree me ill —

Thy will be done.

Father, I will not shrink;
Thy will is love. ;
Gladly the cup I drink;
Though it should prove
Wormwood and gall, I pray:
Take not the cup away;
Humbly my heart doth say:
Thy will be done.

Father, Thy will be done.
Only one day,

Then shall the crown be won,
Ended the fray.

After Gethsemane,

After the agony,

I shall be nearer Thee —
Thy will be done.

Father, Thy cross I bear,

Hoping in Thee;

I feel it now how near

Thou art to me.

Ah! then, for words of praise,

Ah! for the joyful lays

Sounding through endless days — °*

Thy will be done. J. T. MUELLER.

No Condemnation.

“There is therefore now no condemnation to
them which are in Christ Jesus,” Rom. 8, 1.

Just think over these precious words. If you
. believe in the Lord Jesus, you are really and per-
fectly free from all guilt, you are liberated out of

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your prison. You are no longer bound in chains
like a poor condemned slave; you are free. And
your freedom is a present freedom. JEven now you
are free from the slavery of the Law; you are re-
deemed from the dominion of sin; you may go
about like a free man, for your Savior’s blood has
gained perfect liberty for you. You now have the
blessed privilege to approach your Father’s throne;
no flaming sword’s wrath can keep you away; no
threatening watch of cherubim can bar the way,
for justice may not punish the innocent.

All your weaknesses and shortcomings have been
removed. Formerly you dared not look upon your
God’s face; but now you joyfully gaze upon Him
with delighted*eye. Formerly you were not per-
mitted to speak to Him; now you are free to ad-
dress Him at any time. Once the fear of hell bore
you down; but this fear is now gone, for how can
the innocent be punished? He that believes will
not be damned, cannot be punished. Yes, and even
more, all the blessed privileges that would have
been yours if you had never sinned are now yours
in spite of your sinning, for you are justified in
Christ. All those blessings which would have come
to you if you had kept God’s holy Law, and many
more, are now yours, because Christ has fulfilled
the Law for you. All the love and all the bliss
which the perfect obedience of God would have
brought you are now yours, because Christ was
perfectly obedient in your stead, and all His merits
are credited to you, that you may be unspeakably
rich through Him who for your sake was poor and
wretched. Oh, how you must love and thank the
dear Savior for all He has done and gained for you!

By morn and eve my theme shall be
Thy mercy’s wondrous measure;

To sacrifice myself to Thee,

My foremost aim and pleasure.

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