The Prospects of World Conversion
It would seem that the adherents of the temporal millennium doctrine must feel rather gloomy over the prospect of the world's conversion, especially in the face of such evidence as the following:— “We are compelled to believe by the stern array of facts and figures, that at the end of this boasted century of missions, while not 3,000,000 converts, nominal and real, have been won to Christianity in pagandom, heathens and Mohammedans are 200,000,000 more than they were at the beginning of the century. Thus the votaries of these faiths increase seventy times faster than the followers of Christ. The church is outstripped in its own methods.” The foregoing is an extract from an article published in the New York Observer for February 17, 1887, and needs no comment.