p. 5 | Foreign Flashes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 27, 1914

Foreign Flashes

SOUTH AMERICA is twice the size of Europe, thrice the size of China, four times the size of India, and sixty times the size of the British Isles.

England and the United States have one preacher to every 800 souls; Japan one to 100,000; India one to 140,000; Africa one to 160,000; South America one to 227,000.

The Lord Jesus said: “And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many.” There are 230,000,000 Mohammedans. Shall the crescent obscure the cross?

Of the 38,000,000 inhabitants of France, 33,000,000 are mostly freethinkers and atheists; 4,000,000 are nominal Roman Catholics, only one tenth strict; 650,000 are Protestants. There are 1,200 Sunday schools.

Britain’s temple empire is thirty times larger than England; contains 315,000,000 people, or one fifth of the population of the world; has 78 languages and 3,000 distinct castes; has 300,000,000 gods, but not God.

Of the $8,655,981 contributed by American Protestant churches for foreign missions in 1906, a little more than one quarter was given by Methodists. The Baptists gave $1,306,156, the Congregationalists $891,979, the Presbyterians $1,941,704.

There is one class of twenty-two men in the educational department of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Pittsburgh, Pa. The members represent ten nationalities—Greek, Russian, German, Italian, Austrian, Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, and Servian.—Selected.