The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 25

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=e A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.
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Baal PuBLISHED BY THE EvANGELICAL LuTHERAN SyNopIcaL CONFERENCE oF NortH AMERICA.
jl ni REV. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.
= Entered at the Post Oflice at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter.
Vol. XXXIX. ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1917. No. 4.
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is risen! The night of sorrow and lamentation is
past; the day of rejoicing has come.

We rejoice for our Savior’s sake, for His suffer-
ings are over, and His work is done. Now that
He has snapped the cords of death, broken the door
of the tomb, and conquered death forever, His joys
have begun, and He has entered into His eternal rest.

We rejoice on Easter for our own sake; for the
resurrection of Jesus is to us the Father’s declara-
tion that He has accepted the Son’s sacrifice as the

Sweet Easter Bells.

Sweet Easter bells,
} Your ringing tells
' Of exultation,
Of free salvation
For every nation,
And life and immortality.
Ye bells proclaim
i Our Savior’s fame, —
The end victorious

And blesses us eternally. 3]

| ' ; risen we know beyovd all doubt that He really re- |
uF WO ONS pea deemed us from a‘: sin, from death, and from the |
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| Of Christ,.the Crucified, power of the devil. Christ’s resurrection is a glo- 3

| Who for us bled and died, rious Amen to His expiring cry, “It is finished!” |
cthesworld is) justified ax And we further rejoice in Christ’s resurrection J

And cleansed from all iniquity. oi 5 ey

because it is the pledge and hope of our own resur- 4

if Suet Easter ae rection. “Before His death He said, “Because I live, ‘
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Of eriltatien: _ye shall live also” (John 14, 19) ;. and now that ; |

Of His most glorious
And meritorious
Self-sacrifice on Calvary.

The Christ arose
From pain and woes;
He ends our misery,
He cures our malady,
Our sad fatality,

Of free salvation
For every nation,
And life and immortality.

H. Osteruus.

Easter.

atonement for our sins, and that we are now free
from all guilt and debt. Christ’s resurrection is
God’s absolution, or forgiveness, of the whole world;
it.is God’s public announcement to heaven, earth,

and hell that He is fully reconciled unto man. :

Christ, who was delivered for our offenses, is raised
again for our justification. Now that Christ is

He is risen we know beyond all doubt that we shall
rise to life eternal. In the light of His glorious

resurrection, His words, spoken at the tomb of

Lazarus, become fraught with heavenly comfort:
“T am the Resurrection and the Life: he that be-

_lieveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he

live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me

} Baster is a day of joy throughout all Christen- shall never die.” (John 11, 25.. 26.)
‘ ip ‘dom. In our churches the plaintive notes of mourn- ‘Truly, the Easter message is one to bring~joy

ing give place to the glad strains of praise and to our hearts and praise to our lips. Let us glad-
thanksgiving. Our mind turns from the cross on den the hearts of many with its precious tidings. =
Calvary to the empty tomb of Joseph. The Lord FJ. 1.