MISSION NOTES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 25, 1899

MISSION NOTES.

THE Presbyterian Board has wiped out a debt of $97,454, and received last year $801,773 for regular work.

THE American Baptist Missionary Union, the Presbyterian Board, the Methodist Episcopal Church, all contemplate establishing missions in the Philippine Islands in the near future.

LAST year the Congregationalists gave $1.03 per member for foreign missions; the Presbyterians, 94 cents per member; the Baptists, 80 cents per member; the Methodist Episcopals, 34 cents; the Episcopalians, 44 cents; Seventh-day Adventists, $1.75.

THERE are about 150,000,000 native heathen in Africa yet entirely ignorant of the Gospel. This is about one-tenth of the population of the world.

THE total income of the China Inland Mission for the past year was $226,065, of which more than $185,000 came from England, the balance from America, Australia, and China. The number of missionaries on January 1 was 744, since increased to 773.

DURING the past year the largest amount for foreign missions was given by the Methodist Episcopal Church, $977,491. Next to the Methodist Episcopal comes the Presbyterian, with $899,387; the Baptists gave $782,474; the Congregationalists, $643,283.

THE American Baptist Missionary Union makes an excellent showing in the matter of self-support among its missions. The number of its churches in heathen lands is 855, of which not less than 524 are self-supporting; while of its 1,235 mission schools, 383 receive no help whatever from America. A partial report of benevolent contributions of these churches in pagan lands gives $51,462; and it is believed that, taking into account the gifts that are not reported, the amount would be double that thus named.—Christian Worker.

ON the foreign field some of the leading religious bodies of this country are represented as follows in the number of workers: The Methodist Episcopal have 5,652; the Baptists come next, with 5,001; the Congregationalists, with 2,956; the Presbyterians, 1,776; the Episcopalians, 413. In communicants the Baptists lead with 202,527; and the Methodist Episcopals have 169,629; the Congregationalists, 44,600; the Presbyterians, 34,606, and the Episcopalians, 4,074.