The law was a schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith; but after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. GALATIANS iii. 24, 25.
As society is organized today, we need law in the home and the state. The highest law and the loftiest jurisprudence the world has seen were enacted and enforced by Moses, over a race of slaves. Since his day the world has received more and more law, which has been rigidly enforced. We use law in the home for those who need it. We have law in the state for those who must be governed by it. It is needful for the church, as it exists today.
A moral code is needed by many. In the home and state, some live above the hearthstone and civil law, no longer needing law as a schoolmaster. They are saved from the outward law, by the law within. It was a happy day when we, as children, grew beyond the need of parental discipline. We are fortunate if gracefully living above the restraint of civil law.
