Faith and the Promises of God
By Editor
It is estimated by the Journal of Missions that there are at the present time about 1500 Protestant Christian missionaries, laboring among the unevangelized portion of the human family, who are estimated to number more than 900,000,000! To give one preacher to every 1000 of this great mass of mind would require 90,000 missionaries. Were it not for faith in the promises of God, such statistics as these would stagger the belief of the christian philanthropist in the conversion of the world to Christ.—Exchange. We would like to know where those promises are which are capable of sustaining a faith against statistics so overwhelming? “Were it not for faith in the promises of God, belief would stagger.” We have never yet been able to find these promises. This exercising faith in promises that do not exist, to keep belief from staggering, is an appropriate characteristic of world's-conversionists.