General Mission Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1902

General Mission Notes

THE great decline of Japan Buddhists during the last two hundred years is shown by the fact that there were 394,087 temples, whereas now there are less than 72,000.

“OUR failure to prevail more largely with the non-Christian nations is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.”

“INDIFFERENCE to missions is a crime deeper than refusal to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless. Charity is a great work. It is well to feed the multitude with bread, but better still to give them the living Bread.”

“WOULD you have been content to live and die without knowing Christ? For yourself it would have been an immeasurable loss; and by delaying to give to heathen nations the gospel, you inflict this great loss upon them.”

DARKNESS and death are abroad, and we have the Light of life; a world famine, and we have the Bread of life. God is calling, man is calling. O for a church that dares to do great things for God! — A. T. Pierson.

THE province of Honan, China, has an area of 67,955 square miles, and a population of about 22,100,000. It has ninety-four walled cities having no resident missionaries. Including lady workers and the wives of missionaries, there is only one missionary to every 361,000 of the population.

A LAWYER of Indianapolis, aged eighty-seven years, has recently given away the last of a fortune aggregating $800,000. One half is bestowed upon relatives. Of the other half, $265,000 goes to mission boards, home and foreign, and the remainder to a college. An equally phenomenal gift to missions has recently been made in Leeds. A millionaire, lately deceased, bequeathed for missionary purpose nine tenths of his estate, which is valued at $4,967,000. His desire was that this money should be spent in providing every tribe of mankind with accurate and faithful copies of the Gospels of John and Luke and The Acts of the Apostles.