The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1915, Page 65

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PuBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNODICAL CONFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

REY. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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

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ST. LOUIS, MO., SEPTEMBER, 1915.

No. 9.

Hail, Thou Lord of Sabaoth.

Nazarene, Thou art no dreamer,
Thou art truly Man and God,
Our Messiah and Redeemer,
Abram’s Seed and Jesse’s Rod.

Son of Man, so kind and tender,
Present Helper in our need,

Far from being a pretender,
Thou art very God indeed,

Man of Sorrows, pale and gory,
Yet almighty God in troth,
Prince of Peace and King of Glory,
Hail, Thou Lord of Sabaoth!
TH. Ostreritus.

The God-Man.

History teaches us that a Man by the name of
Jesus of Nazareth preached and performed miracles
in Palestine, and was finally executed, according

to the murderous desire of His own people, during
the reign of ‘Emperor Tiberius and by order of the
Roman governor Pontius Pilate. ‘There is no reason
why we should not believe these statements of his-
tory. Do we doubt that Alexander the Great or
Napoleon existed? Besides, we Christians have an
absolutely sure foundation for our belief that the
above historical records concerning Jesus are true.
The Word of God tells us that Jesus Christ lived
here on earth “in the days of His flesh”; it calls
Him a Jfan, and describes Him as a Man, not only
in appearance, but in reality. He called Himself
the Son of Man. He is “true Man, born of the
Virgin Mary.”

According to the Scriptures, Jesus of Nazareth

is a human Person; who “came of the fathers as

concerning the flesh,” Rom. 9, 5. His genealogy
is given Luke 3, 23—38. He was born of a human
mother, though as a sinless Child, the Virgin Mary
being enabled by the Holy Ghost to conceive and
bear this holy Son, Luke 1, 35. He grew, Luke
2, 52. Being really human, He became hungry
and thirsty; He ate and drank, slept and awoke;
Ile spoke and preached; He finally suffered and
died. On Easter Day He drew His disciples’ atten-
tion to the fact that He had a human body, having
referred to, His human soul on Maundy Thursday.
In short, there is no doubt as to His having been,
and still being, a real J/an. Hence St. Paul writes:
“There is one God and one Mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus,” 1 Tim. 2, 5.

But He is a very extraordinary Man. Not only
because He is the only sinless Man that ever lived
on earth since Adam’s fall, but also in another
respect. “Mighty in deed and word before God
and all the people,” He was a more remarkable
Prophet than any of the Old Testament prophets.
Neither Moses nor any other of the ancient men
of God performed as many miracles as He did;
and the following examples show another difference
between His and their miracles. The mighty
Prophet Elijah, exerting his utmost energy, raised
the widow’s son, yet not by his own, but by God’s
power, who heard and granted his prayer. In a
similar way Elisha raised a dead child. Christ,
however, when curing the sick and disabled, and
raising the dead, spoke as One having Himself
authority and complete power over health and sick-
ness, life and death. ‘To that young man of Nain,
for instance, He said, “Young man, Z say unto
thee, Arise.” And he that was dead sat up, and
began to speak, Luke 7, 14.15. Also remember
the words of the leper who worshiped Him, saying,