The Failure of Modern Missions
By Editor
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Observer makes this confession, which must be very discouraging to those who are looking for a temporal millennium, when all men will be converted:— “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, the heathen and Mohammedan are 200,000,000 more than they were at the beginning of the century; that the votaries of these faiths increase seventy times faster than the followers of Christ. The church is outstripped on its own methods. They evince in these modern days a propagandism and aggressiveness far superior. The necessity in the foreign field cannot be overtaken on the present line of church work.” Yet many church people will persist in saying that the world is growing better.