Advancement by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 26, 1908

Advancement

By Arthur G. Daniells

EIGHT years ago we had one missionary in all China, and he was eighty years old. Our annual expenditure amounted to about five hundred dollars. To-day we have between forty and fifty workers in China, at an expenditure of about thirty thousand dollars a year.

In 1900 we had three or four workers in Japan, but not one in Korea. Then our appropriations amounted to something like two thousand dollars each year. At the present time we have between fifteen and twenty workers assigned to Japan and Korea, while our annual expenditure has increased to at least fifteen thousand dollars. Thus in the far East we have increased the number of missionaries from five at the most, to about sixty, and have enlarged our appropriations from two thousand five hundred dollars to at least forty-five thousand dollars.

This appears like a large increase when we look at it from the standpoint of our slender resources, and when we consider what we have done in other parts of the world-wide field. But it looks very small when we measure it with the great extent of territory, the vast population, and the marvelous opportunities for service which the providence of God has created.

A. G. DANIELLS.