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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 51.

A MARTYRS’ MEMORIAL.

By S.

During the terrible uprising against the foreigners in China in the year 1900, thirteen missionaries sent out by the American Board were massacred by the deluded people. Seven of these martyrs were graduates of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and two had resided there while waiting for their husbands to complete their preparatory studies. In view of this fact the American Board has decided to erect at Oberlin a martyrs’ memorial, bearing the names of these brave souls who laid down their lives for the cause of Christ. The memorial at Oberlin will be a constant reminder to those in training there of the serious business of witnessing for Christ. He gave His life for the world. These have followed His example, and paid for their profession with their lives, as thousands in the past have done, and as others yet may do. But let none count that the lives of these have been wasted, tho their blood was shed before a jeering rabble. There is nothing lost to them, and their sacrifice will yet bear glorious fruit for China. The cause of Christ is not buried when the clods of the burial mound are heaped over the bodies of martyrs. He will yet bring a ransomed host out of the land of the green dragon. S.