Facts and Figures to Ponder

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1875

Facts and Figures to Ponder.

The Northern Christian Advocate makes the statement that the M. E. church loses seventy-five per cent of its probationers. In fourteen years 2,092,686 probationers were reported, of whom only 509,316 went into full communion, or 22 to each 100. In other words, in fourteen years more were lost than would make another church as large as itself. The Advocate thinks the prevalent revival methods of the church are at fault, and that such spiritual prodigality in labor and souls should be abated.