The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-01
tSouthern Missionary News Rureau
Ida Clyde Clarke, Editor.

Right here in America. there are
3i,796,O0O people over ten years Of
age who are outside the membership
of any church. There are ten thou-
sand towns in the United States west
of the Missouri river in which Chris
tian preaching is never heard.
Just next door to us in South
America there is a population Of ap-
proximately 49, 1000, 900. In the whole
continent there are only S81 Protest
ant missionaries 1t would
be fair to say that at least three out
of four people in South American
lands live where they will probably
not hear the message of Christ from
Protestant missionaries in any ade-
quate way unless the church greatly
multiplies it's missionary agencies in
South America.
On the whole continent of Africa
there are 3,244 missionaries, each with
a parish Of 3,614 square miles and 49,
2S9 people. In the heart of Africa
there are fifty millions of people-al-
most one-third of The continent-not
only but without any exist
ing agency having their evangeliza-
ton in contemplation so far as any
actual projected plans and hopes are
concerned. There are five unOccupied
areas in Africa. the smallest of which
is four times the size of the State Of
New York.
There are in all Turkey only 345
missionaries, though the territory is
more than eighty-siX times that Of
Massachusetts.
In Persia there are only eighty
four missionaries for the more han
nine and a half million people. The
judgment Of the Edinburgh confer
ence was that with the present mis-
sionary force in Arabia six millions
of our fellow men there are beyond
the reach of the gospel.
In India the Holy Men, or Mendi-
cants, outnumber the Christians by
several hundred thousand. The Ma
tional Missionary Society of India
stated two years ago that only one
third of India had been reached by
missionaries. and that only partially.
1t is estimated that there are liv-
ing in India today $50, 900 900 people
without Christ, and without any hope
of knowing Him unless h missionary
force is increased.
In Japan half Of the population are
farmers, and have scarcely been
reached at all. There are ~ninety-fve
cities, each with a population of ten
thousand or over, without a single
missionary.
There are in China 2,033 walled
cities, and only 476 of them have mis-
~sionaries, leaving 1,557 OF the prlncl'
pal cities ~unoccupied. -
Conservative estimates state tina
not less than $50, 700, 900 Mohamme'
dams are not being reached in any
adequate way by the gospel.
The Edinburgh conference repor
SAYS that there are 119, 900, 600 PEG
.ple in Asia and Africa who are no
even included in the plans of any mis-
sionary society on earth. They are IN
cluded not in unfinished work, but II
work not yet begun. There are mil
lions more that are included IN plan
not yet carried out.
Upon these estimates we can Sc
that 500, 900, 900 people will pass GU
of this generation without having ma
d chance to near Of the only Savlou
,bf men, unless the church pours out
largely increased Offering of lives an
money and prayer to give them I'M
opportunity.
The Gospel in The Congo.
Two weeks ago 1 sent to the print
ers at Luebo a first reader and book
let of fourteen hymns. Next week
expect to have a Catechlsm ready 10
the press so that we can begin TO III
struct applicants for church memoe
ship.
BY the time this letter reaches 20
we expect to have erected a bulioin
TO be used as an evangellstlc train!n
school for boys. Our school is maxim
progress and all Of our al
very anxious to learn to read an
write. :,
The church attendance is spleno1
n 1 rejoice to see the lncreaSln
number Of women coming to the serN
ices. These women have know
nothing but 'servitude for untold gel
erations, but they respond to the CO.
pei touch, and this fact puts a SUI
pendous value upon lady missionary
who will come and help lift the wome
of Africa from their state OF degraos
ton which is so aptly described {
DR.. J.. S. Dennis as a canda ana
slave, a drudge and a disgrace.
temptation and a terror, a plemlS
and a burden.-C. G. Bush, Wemo'
Mama, Africa.
Southern MethOdiStS and Indians.
Southern Methodists have two pr
siding elders districts within u
ho,ndc Of E,aCt Oklahoma COnferenC