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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 11, 1905

Table No. 2. A Comparison Between 1903 and 1904, by North American Unions, Foreign Unions, and Missions Fields

	Church-members	Sabbath-keepers	Ministers Licentiates	Tithes
North American Un. Confs.
1904	55,421	61,756	720	$536,302 76
1903	54,576	60,431	714	$550,154 08
Gain	845	1,325	6	¹$ 13,851 32
Foreign Un. Confs.
1904	12,145	14,119	155	$131,151 97
1903	10,717	12,237	151	$113,200 61
Gain	1,428	1,882	4	$ 17,951 36
Union and Miscel. Mission Fields
1904	4,325	5,846	85	$ 24,364 60
1903	3,779	4,886	75	$ 20,675 85
Gain	546	960	10	$ 3,688 75
Totals
1904	71,891	81,721	960	$691,819 33
1903	69,072	77,554	940	$684,030 54
Net gain	2,819	4,167	20	$ 7,788 79

*Decrease.

Four reasons why foreign missions should be established and maintained:—

1. Because of the great need of over one billion people in utter moral darkness, whom we have as yet made no adequate effort to reach with this gospel message.

2. Because there are now only six per cent of both churches and Sabbath-keepers, and ten per cent of laborers, in fields whose population represents eighty-five per cent of the world's dying millions.

3. Because the gain in believers is as ten to one, compared with the gain in older fields, for the expenditure put forth.

4. Because of the Saviour's final commission, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature," and, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."