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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 48.

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MISSIONARY MURMURINGS.

GATHERED FROM VARIOUS MISSIONARY JOURNALS.

ONE-TENTH of a cent a day is the average contribution of the members of the Christian church in the world for carrying out the last command of the Master.
THE American Presbyterians have in Brazil 63 churches, 32 ministers, and 2,966 members; the Methodist Episcopal Church South has 16 preachers, 20 preaching places, and 346 members; and the Baptist Church in the United States has there 12 missionaries, 5 churches, and 341 members.
THE recent famine in China has had the effect of dissipating much of the prejudice of the Chinese in the afflicted district to foreigners. There is now an open door to the entrance of the gospel, where relief was distributed by missionaries, that should not be allowed to close again through neglect.