The Testimony of Facts

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 20, 1908

The Testimony of Facts

It is said that facts speak louder than words. Let the following facts taken from a reliable source speak for themselves:—

The whole Christian world of 150,000,000 contribute only some $17,000,000 for missions, while in the State of New York, with less than 8,000,000 population, about the same amount is expended every year in licenses for the privilege of selling liquor, not for the liquor itself. In Germany it is stated that the average contribution to missions is only five and a quarter cents per capita, while the money expended per capita for beer alone is seven dollars, and twelve dollars for wine, whisky, and beer together. The total incomes of British missionary societies is nearly $9,000,000, while the people of Great Britain lay aside in savings nearly $5,000,000 a day. Thus more is accumulated in two days than is given to foreign missions in a whole year.

If all professed Christians would make a serious business of proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, how quickly the work could be finished, and “that crowning day” be ushered in.