A Great Field, Few Laborers
A Great Field, Few Laborers.—As illustrating the Saviour's words, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few," take the following summary from an article in the Union Gospel News, of Cleveland: "The earth's population is 1,500,000,000, of which more than 1,000,000,000 are yet non-Christian, say 800,000,000 heathen, and 200,000,000 Mohammedan; 200,000,000 are Roman Catholic, and 150,000,000 are Protestant. For the world's redemption Protestants are giving annually about $15,000,000 to sustain a missionary force of 14,200, of whom 4,300 are ordained, and 3,380 are unmarried women; associated with them are 4,200 ordained natives; about 80,000 toilers in all. The stations and out-stations occupied exceed 25,000; the communicants are upwards of 1,300,000, and increase at the rate of 75,000 annually; the adherents are estimated at 3,500,000, while almost 1,000,000 children and youth are being educated in the more than 20,000 schools."