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Cash Cost of Converts

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 15, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 7.

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Cash Cost of Converts

Cash Cost of Converts.—Often the mathematical Christians of our day attempt to depreciate missions by making out the cost of conversions to be unduly dear. In the November issue of the Baptist Missionary Magazine appeared a series of statistical tables, showing the results of the past eight years in the foreign work of the United States Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians. The last of these columns contains an estimate of the cash cost of each convert.
The statistics may be interesting, but there are a hundred reasons why all such estimates are both dishonoring to God and misleading to men. We have not one word in Scripture to justify any such materialism in our estimate of God's work. Who shall ever tell us the worth of Saul's conversion to the church and the world? Think of a financial reckoning of the value of Luther to the ages.—Missionary Review.