General Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 17, 1903

THE Bible in whole or in part has been translated into fifty-nine different languages and dialects in India. Never was it more widely read in that country than at the present time.

A YOUNG gaikwar, or chief, of Baroda, a province in India, was educated in England. He has issued a special enactment which legalizes the re-marriage of widows. Baroda, the state of which the gaikwar is chief, shows the largest relative increase of Christians in all India for the last ten years.

ACCORDING to the census of the Chinese empire which has just been completed, the entire population is 426,000,000. Of these, 400,000,000 reside in the eighteen provinces, which are nearly as densely populated as the German empire. In Shantung, the most densely populated, there are more than four hundred people to the square mile.

THE report of General Booth gives an idea of the extent of the work of the Salvation Army. Missions are conducted in 49 countries. The workers preach in 31 different languages. There are engaged 13,486 chief officers, 3,000 employees, and 47,000 local officers. The Army publishes 61 periodicals and 27 newspapers in 23 different languages, with an annual circulation of 52,000,000 copies. They have founded 15 farm colonies and 157 slum posts. During the last year 17,000 persons, on an average, were sheltered at night, and 30,000 fed each day. In 114 rescue homes, 5,850 girls were received, and during the same time 14,000 ex-criminals received attention, 3,000 missing people were found, and 84,000 were assisted to employment.