Growth of Foreign Missions
1800 — The foreign missionary societies numbered seven. 1900 — They number over five hundred. 1800 — The income of the seven societies amounted to about $50,000. 1900 — The income is over $15,000,000. 1800 — Not one unmarried woman missionary in all heathen lands. 1900 — There are at least two thousand five hundred and seventy-five. 1800 — Medical missions were unknown. 1900 — There are more than five hundred medical missionaries, one fourth of this number being women. 1800 — There were no patients treated by Christian physicians. 1900 — There are over two hundred thousand patients under treatment in hospitals and dispensaries established by foreign missionary societies. 1800 — Only one fifth of the human family had the Bible in languages they could read. 1900 — Nine tenths of the people of the world have the word of God in languages and dialects known to them.—Selected.