The Portland daily press., 1899-04-29

shintoists. z, 1856, ono Jews. and III. osl ,66e
polytheists, making total of those ! not
Christians of 952, G02, 04l.
Missionary agencies give an estimate
OF the wealth Of the Protestant Christians
as SIS, 900, 600, 600. and the annual increase
In the wealth of church members in
Christendom over all expenses at 81 1000.
900. 900. OF this saved wealth of a billion
year SIS. 600, 900 is given.by all the evan
gelicnl Christians to evangelize the world.
The annual profits of Christians In the
United States are placed at $500. 0O0. 900,
and the American Christians give S. 800
900 year to preach the gospel to the
heothsn.
MONEY NOT LACKING.
There are about 40, 00O, 600 members of
Protestant churches in the United States,
and these, with Professionals who are not
church members, give 800. 000, 900 each
year for religious purposes in this country
where 1.-THE heather are so by choice. F"
This Increase in heathenism cannot be
said to bs due to lack OF money for work
among them. Neither is 1t due to lack
of work. Since the organization in 1741
OF the Brethren's (Moravian) Society for
tho Furtherance of the Gospel, and the
first real step in modern missions, with
the organization of the second society in
l792, missionary zeal has increased so in
"A little over 100 years that now there are
nearly 200 societies working In various
parts of the heather world Evangelical
native Christian communities in mission
airy lands now number over 8, 200. 900 per-
IONS.
In the beginning of this century there
were only. about 5000 900 Bibles in exis-
tence. Now there are about $50. 100000
complete copies or parts of the Bible. and
Christendom is publishing the Bible at
the rate of 5000, 900 year. The Bible
has been translated into ninety tongues,
and 1t can be read in whole or in part in
so of the 5000 spoken dialects Of the
world. So it is accessible to nine-tenths
of the inha bitants of this earth, though it
is known only to about five .tenths.
IN CHINA.
The first Protestant missionaries In
India were Danes. and the year of their
advent was 1905. Now there are nearly
three q uarters of million Protestant
Christians in that land of. "error's
chain" In the thirty years from 1861 to
1891 the number increased from about
900 900 to nearly 100000. The population
of India is 2s7. 600 900.
After seventy six years work in Bur-
NAH there are 200, 600 Christian adherents
out OF a population of 5000, 900. Ninety
two years of Missionary work in China
have resulted In present Protestant
church membership of 10000. Colonel
Charles DENLY. ex-United States Minis
ter to China, now on the Philippines
Peace commission. has said: There are
supposed to be 40. UO0 Protestant converts
In China, and at least 500, 900 Catholic
converts :" The population OF China
proper Is estimated at SS6. 900, 600. In
Japan there are as many Protestant
church memb ers as in China. In Africa
there are l2O, OO0 church members, and
a Protestant community numbering alto
gether !, COZ, 900. In Madagascar, after an
era of persecution of the Christians, there
are 5000 communicates of the Protestant
missions. O,C0o adhsrents and 1900, 900
asking for Christian instruction. South
America, previously wholly Papai. had In
1894 nearly g. 600 Protestant church mem
beers and over $40, 600 sdherents. Mexico
received the American Bible and Ameri-
ka Thara
now II, 600 Protestant church members
there and so, 600 adherents.
CHRISTIANIZED FIJIANS.
Instead of eating their fellow-men, the
Fiji Islanders are Christians now. In
1885 every one on the islanders dined on
his fellows. Now there is not heather
in eighty inhabited islands. There are
2s, 900 Protestant church members and
LOG, 900 church adherents in the group.
In the Friendly Islands there are $1,000
protesting Christians where fifty years
ago there was not one. 1t Is said of
Geddie, who went to the New Hebrides,
that "when he landed in iS4S there were
no Christians, and when he left In 1872
there were no heathens." In the Samoan
Islands there are $4,000 adherents of Prot
es.antism.: 1 he cannibals of New Zealand
have become Christians, and those of New
Guinea are changing their worship and
ways
After reforming the Sandwich Islands
we annexed them. thus comforting great
blessings upon people that hair cell
fury ago were little more than cannibals.
1t cost s., eco, 900 to Go this, but 1t pays,
com meroially as well as in other ways