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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 21, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 51.

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Missionary Incomes

By William Ambrose Spicer

ALL the great missionary societies are feeling the pressure of the calls for enlarging work. The Baptist missionary organ prints the following list of the incomes of the larger societies last year:—
The Presbyterian North.....$1,184,778 The Presbyterian South..... 226,284 Methodist Episcopal (Foreign)..... 987,567 American Board (Congregational).................... 725,315 Reformed Church in America..... 119,012 The Church Missionary Society (Church of England) (Expenditures)............ 1,643,582 The London Missionary Society (Congregational)..... 864,835 American Baptist Missionary Union..................... 737,978
These are large sums, but really small as compared with the membership of these societies. It represents, however, a vast amount of work in all the four quarters of the earth. And the call of the times for expansion into new fields has been such that the year shows deficits as follows in various societies:—
Church Missionary Society (nearly)....................$300,000 London Missionary Society..... 129,843 Paris Missionary Society..... 30,000 Berlin Missionary Society..... 125,000 American Baptist Missionary Union..................... 11,368
Some of the societies will doubtless retrench and cut down to meet the deficit; others will lay the situation before their supporters, and endeavor to bring the income up to the requirements of the advancing work.
None of these great societies would perhaps acknowledge the advent idea as the influence hastening on the world's evangelization. But we know why it is that just at this time the providence of God is lining up and hastening forward every force that makes for righteousness. The end is at hand. The Word of God is being scattered, the sound of the gospel is reaching the ears of earth's millions, and the way is being prepared for the advent warning to sweep quickly over all the earth. W. A. S.