THE CHINESE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 11.

THE CHINESE.

PUT them in rank, joining hands, and they will girdle the globe ten times at the equator with living, beating human hearts. Make them an army and let them move at the rate of 1,000 a day, week after week and month after month, and they will not pass you in 1,000 years. Constitute them pilgrims, and let 2,000 go past every day and every night, under the sunlight and under the solemn stars, and you must hear the ceaseless tramp, tramp of the weary, pressing, throbbing throng for 500 long years.

Just to get some idea of the population of that country, take your Bible in your hand and turn over the pages. Count the chapters—it would take a long time; count the verses, count the words—an endless task. Go further, count all the letters in the Bible from the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelation, every single letter, without missing one.

Have you got then the number of the people in that one land alone? Far from it. You must do it again; you must do it ten times, twenty times, forty times, eighty times, one hundred times before you reach the sum of the population of China. The letters of 113 Bibles are not enough to represent the souls in that land, and nearly all of them in heathen darkness!—Selected.