Worldwide Alcohol Consumption Statistics for 1893
STATISTICS have been compiled at Vienna of the quantity of alcoholic liquors drunk in 1893 in the entire world. Germany heads the list with 1,202,132,074 gallons, an increase of 34,000,000 over 1892, the consumption being 33 gallons per head, ranging from 62 gallons in Bavaria to 12 gallons in Lothringen; Great Britain, second, 1,155,752,000 gallons, or 30 gallons per head; America, including the whole of the western hemisphere, is third, with more than a billion gallons, or 16 gallons per head. The total for the world, not including Asia and Africa, is 4,500,000,000 gallons, requiring 7,270,000 tons of malt and 82,000 tons of hops. FROM Hon. Selah Merrill comes an emphatic denial that there has been any considerable increase of Jews in Palestine during recent years. Jerusalem, he says, has but 27,000 in a population of 47,000, and the whole land but 42,000. He accounts for the reports of a rapid influx of Jews to that region on the ground that many people in America, Great Britain, and Germany have a theory that there must be a flocking of Israel to the Holy Land and a rebuilding of Jerusalem before the second advent of our Lord, and they try to create the impression that their prophecy is being fulfilled. But false theories cannot be practically sustained by imaginary results or exaggerated reports. A REPORT submitted at the recent anniversary of the Baptist Missionary Union contains the following suggestions: “The aim in foreign mission work should be the planting of native churches, such as will be self-supporting and reproductive. There should be a modification of excessive and sentimental pity when contemplating the hardships that natives must undergo to contribute to missions; proportionate giving should be urged. Native churches should be plain in architecture, and cheaply constructed. The practice of some churches of sending money to support native preachers should be discouraged, as this designation hampers the work of the Executive Committee, which should have all the money to spend for the furtherance of the general work. Some form of industrial education should be maintained in connection with the mission.”