Comparative Standing Outside the United States

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1908

Comparative Standing Outside the United States

Dividing the countries of the world roughly into Protestant, Roman and Greek Catholic, and non-Christian, the comparative standing of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in the various countries, outside the United States, is shown in the following table, which indicates the number of countries, churches, and communicants at the close of 1907:—

Protestant Countries

	COUNTRIES	CHURCHES	COMMUNICANTS
Alaska	1	..	11
Australia	1	75	3,138
Bermuda	1	1	48
Germany	1	79	5,032
German-Switzerland	1	10	421
Great Britain	1	47	1,807
Hawaiian Islands	1	1	22

<page-break/> | Holland | 1 | 5 | 185 | | New Zealand | 1 | 15 | 613 | | North America | 2 | 71 | 2,094 | | Prussia | 1 | 22 | 739 | | Roman-Switzerland | 1 | 14 | 516 | | Scandinavia | 6 | 81 | 2,744 | | Total | 19 | 421 | 17,370 |

Catholic Countries

	COUNTRIES	CHURCHES	COMMUNICANTS
Austria	1	..	87
Balkan States	1	2	127
Belgium	1	1	73
France	1	8	227
Greece	1	..	4
Hungary	1	3	414
Italy	1	1	43
Mexico	1	2	121
Portugal	1	..	9
Russia	1	41	2,566
South America	8	63	2,277
Spain	1	..	29
West Indies	13	74	3,918
Total	32	195	9,845

Non-Christian Countries

	COUNTRIES	CHURCHES	COMMUNICANTS
Abyssinia	1	..	4
Algeria and Tunis	1	..	4
British East Africa	1	..	5
British West Africa	1	1	60
China	1	4	177
Egypt	1	1	10
German East Africa	1	1	8
India	1	4	221
Island Missions	11	19	448
Japan	1	4	134
Korea	1	5	155
South Africa	4	20	795
Syria	1	1	21
Turkey	1	21	276
Total	27	81	2,318
Grand total	78	697	29,533