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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 15.

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Missionary Facts

CHRIST said, “Go ye into all the world.” “Go” does not mean stay; “all” does not mean a part.
There are 300,000,000 souls in India, and only 1,700 missionaries.
India has 23,000,000 widows; 14,000 are baby widows under five years old.
Allowing one letter of the Bible to represent one person in India, it would take seventeen Bibles to represent them all.
The Christian population of India could be represented by the letters in the book of Isaiah.
In China there is one ordained minister to every 1,000,000.
Every year 12,000,000 perish in China from the effects of opium.
The population of Japan is about 40,000,000, and the average parish of each missionary is about 100,000.—Christian Worker.