In German Cities

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1911

OUR brethren in Europe have large city problems, and are working away at them as they are at other lines of evangelistic effort, with ministers, colporteurs, and Bible workers. In a recent letter, Elder H. F. Schuberth, president of the East German Union, said of our work in Berlin:—

In greater Berlin we now have ten churches, with a total membership of seven hundred fifty. It is wonderful what a power is in our truth to draw all classes of people. Last year we baptized a high officer in the army, a member of an old family of noblemen.

Of the rapid growth of German cities, a newspaper says:—

Advance figures compiled from the 1910 census returns show that there are now in the German empire forty-seven cities of more than 100,000 population. Of these, seven have more than 500,000 population. They are, Berlin (without suburbs), 2,064,153; Hamburg, 936,000; Munich, 593,053; Leipzig, 585,743; Dresden, 546,882; Cologne, 511,042; and Breslau, 510,929. Four others have more than 300,000 population. They are Frankfort-on-the-Main, 414,406; Dusseldorf, 356,733; Nuremberg, 332,539; and Charlottenburg (a suburb of Berlin), 304,280. Twelve other cities have more than 200,000 population, and twenty-four others have populations ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 each. Ten years ago there were but two cities in the empire with more than 500,000 population, and only thirty-three with more than 100,000 population.