Reports from the Eastern Field

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1915

Reports from the Eastern Field

IN his address to the Asiatic Division Conference, recently held in Shanghai, China, R. C. Porter, the superintendent, says: “The total area of the Asiatic Division is 5,289,898 square miles. The total population is 522,007,677, an average of about one hundred persons to each square mile of territory. Add to these figures Australasia, with an area of 3,087,157 square miles of territory, larger than the United States, and a population of over 6,000,000; and the India mission field, with an area of 1,766,642 square miles, and a population of 315,000,000, and we have in this great Eastern field nearly two thirds of the population of the globe. No other field presents so many and such pressing openings; and no other field yields larger returns for labor bestowed.”

BROTHER I. H. ZAKARIAN, who is working with literature among the soldiers in Egypt, reports: “I have again to thank the Lord for his assistance in the distribution of literature. I spent much time and means to get a general pass to work in the soldiers’ camps among the different regiments, but failed in this. My sales for May amounted to 124 francs.”