The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 25

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PuBLISHED BY THE EvANGELICAL LutHERAN SyNopIcAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

REY. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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

‘Vol. XXXVII.

ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL,

1915. No. 4.

Easter.

Jesus Christ was declared to be the Son of God with
power... by the resurrection from the dead. Rom. 1, 4.

Christ was declared with power
God’s Son on Easter Day,

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Our mighty Shield and Tower,
Our only Strength and Stay, —

The Helper sent from heaven,
Whom we can trust indeed,
The Lamb for sinners given,
The Friend in sorest need.

He was declared with power

The Life, the Truth, the Way
To heav’n's unfading bower. —
O blessed Raster Day! Say
H. Osteruvs.

He Is Risen!

He is risen! He is risen from
the dead. Since the earth came into
being, no greater nor more glorious
news has been heard. And though
it should see thousand times thou-
sand vears, the earth will never hear
more blessed tidings. The crucified
Savior was laid in the tomb, and
the stone which closed it was sealed;

+ but now the grave is burst open, the
stone is removed, and He that was
dead has risen to life. Who can
doubt any longer that He is the
Resurrection and the Life? Who
can any longer deny His divine Son-
ship? Now we see clearly that He
was crucified not for His own sin,
nor merely because of the hatred

and malice of His enemies. Now we see plainly that
He died on the cross to atone for our sins, to pay
the debt which we owed. But He that was given for
our offenses is now raised for our justification. His
resurrection is the seal of a perfected redemption,
a divine confirmation of His words, “It is finished.”
Without the resurrection our faith in Christ as
the Redeemer would be in vain, in fact, nothing
but a superstition. But now that He that was
crucified has risen from the dead, we have a re-
ceipt from God Himself to the effect that our debt,
the whole world’s debt, has been paid to the last
farthing. ‘The risen Christ is a positive proof that
our sins are forgiven, and that God’s wrath is ap-
peased. Confidently we may now say:

T am content! My Jesus liveth still,

In whom my heart is pleased;

He hath fulfilled the Law of God for me,
God’s wrath He hath appeased.