The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1918, Page 33

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notice, hand same to any postal employee, and it will be placed in the
hands of our soldiers or sailors at the front.

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A. S. BurLeson, Postmaster-General.

Che Lutheran Pioneer.

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REv. F. J. LANKENAU, EDITOR.

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

Vol. XL.

O Lord, Be With Our Soldier Boys!

O Lord, be with our soldier boys,
And teach them how to fight
Against the Evil Foe that lurks
About their tents at night!

Oh, keep the Serpent’s slimy trail
And every tempting sound,

The scarlet evil’s flattery,

Far from their camping-ground!

Oh, bid them take the shield of faith,
And swing the Spirit’s sword,

That they be more than conquerors
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord!

O Lord, be with our soldier boys
In home or foreign lands,
And let them feel that Thou art near
With Thy protecting hands!
W. M. Czamanske.

Go! — They Went.

The other day, while reading my Bible, I met

with this expression, and it took a hold upon me.

This combination of words, or such as have an iden-
tical meaning, we often may read in the Bible.
Thus in the parable of the Marriage of the King’s
Son, the king says to his servants, “Go ye, there-
fore, into the highways, and as many as ye shall
find bid to the marriage.” And of the servants we
are told: “So these servants went out into the high-
ways, and gathered together all, as many as they
found.” In the parable of the Great Supper the
master gives the commission, “Go out quickly into
the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither
the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the

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blind”; and later the servant comes to report to
his master, “Lord, 7# is done as thou hast com-
manded.”

Where things are as they ought to be, it is the
servant’s delight to do his master’s bidding; no
sooner does the master’s “Go” pass his lips than the
servant hastens.to obey. The same narrative that
reports the master’s “Go” should also be able, in
every instance, to say concerning the servants, “They
went.”

Are we servants of the Great King prompt in
obeying His behest “to go”? In the sixteenth chap-
ter of Mark, the fifteenth verse, the Lord, as He is
about to ascend on high, commissions His disciples,
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to
every creature”; and in the last verse of the chapter
it is said of His disciples: “They went forth, and
preached everywhere.” A plain command and a

prompt obedience! The same plain command comes _

tous. Does it meet with the same prompt obedience?

In the spirit of Christ’s command to go, “Philip _

went down to the city of Samaria, and preached
Christ unto them” there, Peter promptly went and
baptized Cornelius and his household at Caesarea,
and Paul proclaimed the Gospel of salvation through-
out the provinces of Asia Minor, in Greece, and even
in imperial Rome. Oh, that some of the fire that
glowed in the bosoms of these faithful servants of
the Great King would be burning in our hearts!
Then would there be no lack of workers in the field
and no Jack of supporters of the work at home.
Above all, let us remember that the present time,
above all others, when all the powers of darkness are
at work, is time for us to go-forth with the Gospel

of God’s grace in Christ, and proclaim its light- bs

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