Under the Law by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 30, 1901

Under the Law

By Editor

“Under the Law.”—Some of our questioners who wish an explanation of the above expression will find an article on that subject in another column.

Read the article “The Law and the Gospel,” in another column. This is written by a professional lawyer, who knows the distinction between human and divine laws.

Here is the title of an article which will interest our lady readers, old and young: “Internal Disease from External Ornamentation.” It is written by a lady physician, Mamie A. Paulson, M.D., who exemplifies in her own life the instruction she gives. It will appear in a few weeks.

How many of our readers have read “An Astronomer's View of Our Father's House,” by “Gamma Beta,” first published in the SIGNS, then as a number of the Apples of Gold Library? Well, Gamma Beta contributes to the SIGNS another article of great interest, entitled “God's Thoroughness.” It does not tell how far the east is from the west, but it makes most readers think farther than ever before. It will appear in a week or so.

Modern Martyrs.—The Congregationalist notes among the native martyrs in China for Christ's sake the following: “‘I believe in Jesus with all my heart and trust Him for the salvation of my soul,’ said an educated Chinese woman, whose life would have been spared but for that avowal. A native Presbyterian pastor and his entire family of nine persons were massacred at a temple outside the wall of Peking. A native teacher was given her choice to give up her faith or die. She answered, ‘I can never deny my precious Saviour,’ and her body was cut into pieces and thrown into a well. Many have been buried alive, others beaten to death with clubs, and others saturated with oil and set on fire.” But it is worth while to remember that much of the suffering by these noble souls, if not all, would have been avoided if it had not been for the course pursued by an unchristian political Christendom. Many of those who suffered in China are victims indirectly tho not less truly of the injustice and oppression and overreaching of so-called Christian powers.