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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

Missionary Facts and Statistics

A REGION including fifty million people was evangelized through the efforts of seven shoemakers in Hamburg.

MANY Chinese Christians have gone to the Transvaal, to labor as evangelists and catechists, among the forty thousand Chinese coolies there.

NEARLY one third of the missionaries of the American Board in India and Ceylon are the children or grandchildren of missionaries who were sent out by the Board two or three generations ago. In the three Indian missions, including Ceylon, there are now ninety-five American laborers, nineteen of whom were children and eleven grandchildren — thirty in all — of missionaries, most of whom have ended their earthly labors.