The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1916, Page 25

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

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Pusuisuep by THE EvancenicaLn LurTuenan SynopicanL ConreERENcE or Nort AMERICA.
REV. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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

ST. LOUIS, MO.,

APRIL,

1916.

No. 4.

The Lord Is Risen.

On Easter Day the Prince of Life,

The Vietor in the deadly strife,

Our Lord, who died on Calvary,

Rose from His grave triumphantly.
Hallelujah!

The human race in bondage lay,

But Jesus took its sin away,

Led captive our captivity,

O’ercame our foes, and set us free.
Hallelujah!

The Lord is risen, and was seen

By weeping Mary Magdalene,

By His disciples, one and all,

And others, finally by Paul.
Hallelujah!

(1 Cor. 15, 7.)
(1 Cor. 15, 8.)

He that is risen from the dead

Now lives forever as our Head,

Nor will His members ever die;

This message fills our hearts with joy.
Hallelujah!

The Lord is risen that we all

By faith might rise from Adam’s fall,
And henceforth to our Savior cling,
Until in heaven we shall sing:

Hallelujah! H. Osrernus.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

After Christ’s sacrificial death, concerning which
we heard in our last doctrinal article, His sacred
body was taken down from the cross and interred
in Joseph’s grave, where it rested peacefully without
seeing corruption (Ps. 16, 10): On the third day
after His ignominious death, however, He victo-
riously arose from the sepulcher with ‘a glorified
body. Neither the bonds of death, nor the great
stone that lay before the entrance of His tomb, nor

the soldiers that watched at His grave, could’ hold
him back. When an angel of God came from heaven
during a great earthquake and rolled the stone away,
the grave was seen to be empty. This angel told
the. women that had come to anoint Jesus: “Be
not affrighted! Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which
was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen,
as He said.” Yea, the Lord Himself appeared to
Mary Magdalene and the other. women, and spoke
to them. He also appeared to:His-disciples on that
first Easter Day. When they: trembled, thinking
that they saw a spirit, He said to'them: “Why are
ye troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your
hearts? Behold--My hands and My: feet, that it
is I Myself; handle Me and-see; for a spirit hath
not flesh and bone; as. ye see Me have.” And when
He had thus: spoken, -He showed-them His hands
and His feet..."Then;svere the disciples glad when
they saw the-Lord;- Even the: doubts of Thomas
vanished like vapors before the rising sun when his
risen Lord and God said to*him:; “Reach hither
thy finger, and behold-My hands; and reach hither
thy hand, and thrust if into My side; and be not
faithless, but believing.” So our doubts and mis-
givings disappear when we read the lovely Easter
stories, which have been inspired by the Holy Ghost;
and we exclaim rejoicingly, “The Lord is risen! He
is risen indeed!” Again and again, for a period of
forty days He showed Himself alive to His apostles
and many, many others of His friends, thus con-
vincing them in an unmistakable manner-that He
had risen. . : -

With the words, “Peace be unto you!” the vic-
torious Prince of Life greeted His disciples. His
resurrection gives us poor sinners, for whom He
has died, the most enduring peace and the richest
consolation; for the glorious fact of His resurrec-