Mission Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1902

IN 1835 Paris had only ten Protestant churches; now in and around the city there are one hundred and five. In 1857 there were seven hundred and twenty-eight Protestant pastors; to-day there are over twelve hundred.

DURING the eighty-five years of its existence, the American Bible Society has distributed 68,923,434 Bibles. The last year the number was 1,554,128. Of this number 147,327 went to residents of the United States, and 973,615 to foreign lands.

THE book sales in Uganda for 1901, gathered from returns made from eighteen European and scores of native centers throughout that country, show that 785 Bibles, 2,375 New Testaments, and 4,980 Gospels and portions of the same were sold there last year.

DR. ASHMORE, in a recent article on the situation in China, shows that not much faith is to be placed on the dowager empress as a reformer. It is only by compulsion that she has been forced to adopt this rôle; and while she issues instructions for reforms, she may be counted on to try to prevent those reforms from being carried out. “However,” he says, “it may be depended upon that reform is to begin. So many declarations made public will of themselves stir up the desire and the anticipation. The vast masses of the Chinese are not content with existing conditions. In that fact lies the certainty that something will have to be done. And whatever is done, is going to create a tremendous opportunity for missions. Allow me to repeat it, that it is going to create a tremendous opportunity for missions.” — Exchange.