Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 29, 1906

“Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation.” Isa. 45:17.

Our of every one hundred thousand church-members, only twenty-one go to the foreign field.

Caste has become a religion to the Hindus, and is more difficult to deal with than their religions.

There are 2,201,404 children in India between the ages of five and nine who are married, and another 64,040 who are widows.

“God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” John 3:17.

There are yet sixteen hundred languages, representing three hundred million people, who have no Bible in their own tongue.

“How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.” Rom. 10:15.

“Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.” Acts 28:28.

The total number of Christian workers of all kinds in the United States is 1,218,025; one Christian worker to each forty-eight persons.

It has been stated at one of the Shanghai conferences that in Foochow from thirty to seventy per cent. of the female infants are put to death at birth.

In 1851 there were ninety-one thousand Protestant Christian adherents in India. At the close of 1889 the estimate was not less than eight hundred thousand.