The Gospel Preached in All the World by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1874

The Gospel Preached in All the World.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

As a sign of the end of the world, Christ foretold that the gospel would be preached in all the world to all nations. Matt. 24: 1–3, 14. This sign is now accomplished.

“All the principal heathen countries of the world are now penetrated by the missionaries of Christ, who have put into operation the highest and strongest kind of spiritual influences. At this moment, over China, Japan, Persia, Hindoo-stan, Turkey, East, South, West and North Africa, Madagascar, Greenland, and the hundreds of Pacific isles, are 31,000 Christian laborers, toiling diligently to represent unto sorrowful men the beauty of Christ’s love. In these lands, schools, colleges, and theological seminaries, have been established, wherein Christian education is given to 600,000 youths of both sexes. Outside the bounds of Christendom there are now established 4,000 centers of Christian teaching and living; 2,500 Christian congregations have been established; 273,000 persons are now members of the Christian church; and populations numbering in all 1,350,000 have adopted the Christian name. In India and Burmah alone are 7,480 missionaries, native preachers and catechists; nearly 3,000 stations and out-stations; 70,857 communicants. “The Baptists have made the Karems of Burmah a Christian people; the American Board has done the same for the Sandwich Islands; the Moravians for Greenland; the Wesleyans for the Feejee and Friendly Isles; and the English Independents for Madagascar.” No direct religious results from missions? What mean those large and flourishing Christian churches, born out of the very abysses of heathenism, in Australia, British America, Siberia, the Sandwich Islands, Northern Turkey, Persia, China, Madagascar, South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Islands of the Pacific?—Christian Union.

So the signs of the end are thickening around us. May we be ready. D. M. CANRIGHT.