The Unreached Millions of China
“How can we gain an adequate impression as to the numbers of people on the earth now unreached by the message of the gospel? We talk of millions and hundreds of millions, but the figures mean very little to us. They are too vast for us to conceive of them. We are much more impressed by a crowd of twenty thousand which we see with our own eyes. How little conception we have as to the population of China, for instance. Will it aid any one to consider that if its four hundred millions of people should march in single file by a given point, at the rate of three miles an hour, it would take over thirty-four years for the procession to pass? And would it come to an end then?—No! for by the time it had passed, another generation of people would have come on to the stage to continue the endless march. Among these myriads of souls what are the few hundreds of missionaries now sent to them?”