The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1917, Page 33

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The Lutheran Pioneer,

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTHERAN SyNopicaL CoNFERENCE OF NortH AMERICA.

REv. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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

Vol. XXXIX.

ST. LOUIS, MO., MAY, 1917.

No. 5.

Where Is My Home?

Where is my home? Where is my home?
This world is but my pilgrim’s home,
Where roamingly I go and come.

Where is my home? Where is my home?
On earth there is my home.

Where is my home? Where is my home?
God’s holy temple is my home,

Where, prayerful, I go and come.
Where‘/is my home? Where is my home?
At chureh there is my home.

Where is my home? Where is my home?
My Father’s mansions are my home,
Where, nevermore to leave, I come.
Where is my home? Where is my home?
In heay’n there is my home.

Adapted from the German, Wo ist mein Haus?
by J. T. MuELter.

The Lord’s Supper.

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Out of the burning bush Jehovah called to
Moses, “Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground.” When we study the
doctrines of the Bible, we, too, stand on holy
Jesus Christ is our Savior. He earned
salvation for us with His holy, precious blood and
with His innocent suffering and death. We re-
ceive this salvation by faith. ‘The Holy Ghost
kindles this faith in our hearts by means of the
Gospel and the Sacraments. The means of grace,
these mysteries of God, are beyond our compre-
hension. Human reason cannot understand or
measure them. Let us bear this fact in mind,

and approach the Scriptural doctrine regarding
the Lord’s Supper with humble hearts, bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Christ. Let us not forget that He who instituted
this Sacrament is no mere man, but the true, all-
wise, almighty God-man, who is able to do “ex-
ceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
He certainly knew how to express Himself ade-
quately wien instituting this ‘Sacrament, and He
does not fail to fulfil what He promises in
those words.

- In our Short Laxposition of Luther's Small
Catechism-the following names of the Lord’s Sup-
per are enumerated: the Lord’s Table (1 Cor.
10,21), the Breaking of Bread (Acts 2,42), the
Lord’s Supper (1 Cor. 11,20), the Holy Supper,
the Eucharist (which means, a giving of thanks,
1 Cor. 10, 24), and Holy Communion (1 Cor.
10, 17). The ancient African Christians, as
M. Claudius remarks, called the Lord’s Supper
their life; the Greeks called it the greatest good;
Tuuther called it our greatest treasure; the carly
Christians called it the preeminent mystery.

The Reformed denominations look at the Lord’s
Supper as having been instituted for the sole pur-

pose of commemorating the sufferings and death

of our Savior. True, this is one of the purposes
which it should serve; for Christ says, “This do
in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22, 19), and
St. Paul writes, “As often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death
till He come” (1 Cor. 11, .26). ‘But the Lord’s
Supper is intended to be more than a mere memo-
rial celebration. It is a divine testament, or last

will, which Christ made before His death, andin

which: He gives us the greatest spiritual treasures.
Together with His body and blood He imparts to