The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1916, Page 17

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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PusLisHED BY THE EvANGELIcAL Lurueran SynopicaL CONFERENCE oF Norti AMERICA.

REV. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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

Vol. XXXVIII. ST. LOUIS, MO., MARCH, 1916.

No. 3.

An Evening Prayer.

Weary now, I fall asleep,

Close my eyes in slumbers deep;
Father, let Thy watehful eye
Guard me from Thy throne on high.

All the wrong I’ve done this day,
Let it be forgiv’n, I pray;

Cleanse my heart beneath the flood
Of my Savior’s precious blood.

Hold Thy kind, protecting hand
Over home and kin and friend;
Let each howling tempest cease,
And each troubled heart find peace.

Take the sick into Thy care,
Wipe away the mourner’s tear,
While the smiling stars proclaim
Silent praises to Thy name.
Adapted from the German
by J. T. MUELLER.

“‘Christ Jesus Came into the World to
Save Sinners.’’
1 Tra. 1, 15.

A young man lay dying of yellow fever in one
of our Southern cities. Having lapsed into a state
of unconsciousness soon after the fever had laid
hold of him, conversation with him was impossible.
Just before his death, however, consciousness re-
turned. His loving sister, who stood by, then asked
him, “Brother, you are about to die; what is your
trust for eternity?” With his last remaining

strength the young man answered, “Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners.” And in these
few words he said all that could be said. His anchor
had found a firm rock. “Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners,” — this proposition bridges
death and hell.

Man was lost, and no creature could help him;
then it was that “the Son of Man came to seck
and to save that which was lost.” ‘There is no
other name under heaven given among men whereby
we can be saved. To bring about our salvation,
He is burdened with our heaviest sorrows and loaded
down with all our woes. For our sake He becomes
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He
allows His enemies to bind Him, to scourge Him,
and spike Him to the cross. He who knew of no
sin is made sin for us, and His heavenly Father
forsakes Him, and anguish unspeakable overwhelms
Him. He, the Prince of life and the Author of
all being, bows His head, and gives up His life
for us.

That we might be clothed, He disrobes Himself;
that we might be filled, He empties Himself; He
is humbled that we may be exalted; to make us
rich, He is poor; He leaves heaven to make us its
heirs; He is forsaken by His heavenly Father that
we may become the Father’s children; He wrestles
with the powers of darkness to free us from its
hellish tyranny; He drinks the cup of sorrows to
its bitter dregs that we may taste forever the cup
of heavenly pleasure; he wears the crown of thorns
that the crown of everlasting righteousness may rest
upon our brows; He passes through the valley of
death to open for us the way to the everlasting
hill-tops of glory. FJ. 1.

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