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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 16.

JAPAN.

THE following figures relative to missions in Japan will be of interest at this time. The Rev. H. Loomis, a missionary in Japan, states there are 757 Protestant missionaries in that country, and 42,461 converts. By way of comparison we may remind our readers that "Whittaker" returns the population of the Japanese Empire at 44,000,000, so that the Protestant Christians are as one to nine hundred. The English and American Church Missions, incorporated into the Nippon Sei Kokwai, or Church of Japan, have 7,976 members, or about one-sixth of the whole.

It is interesting to note that the first Japanese convert was baptized only thirty-six years ago, and the first Japanese congregation, of nine members, was organized so recently as twenty-nine years ago.—Church Missionary.