Unspeakably Sad by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 1, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 31.

Unspeakably Sad.

By Editor

No words can describe the horrors of the fearful massacres in China, especially at Pekin, noted more fully in our news columns; and the most terribly sad thing of all was the seeming necessity of the death of women and children and wounded at the hands of their own friends. Yet fearful as are their deaths, Christians will not seek to avenge them. Not one who gave his life (or her life, for there were noble women among them) for Christ's sake will be forgotten of the Master. His life, his work, his sacrifice, his seed-sowing, will all be remembered. God will reward every soul, and mete out to the wrong-doers according to their deeds. "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves; . . . for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." We know that this is not natural; but it is Christian, and Christianity pertains not alone to the life that now is, but that which is to come. The true gain is the long gain; and God is eternal.