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WHAT IS DOING.
Ill our September number wo gave a general
view of the march of tint Gospel around tho world,
as presented by Professor Christlleb. Let tts now
take a more, particular survey by grouping some of
tlie facts and figures of the same author. AVImt Is
doing limy stimulate us to do.
Sweep around the. circuit of the isles of the
sea, from Japan In tho east to the Sandwich
Mauds In tlie west, anti what do we see? In 1872
the llrst congregation, of eleven converts, was
formed in Japan; to- day there are sixty-six
churches, l,7i!l adult communicants, •‘•.000 Chris¬
tian adherents, three theological seminaries, with
lilt students fortlic ministry; thirty schools, with
800 pupils. Among tho tlegradcd and fast disap¬
pearing aborigines of Australia are two mission¬
ary stations. “with little villages of 125 native in¬
habitants, with pretty churches and clean houses,
and arrowroot produce, which gained a prize at the.
Vienna exhibition." New Zealand has 10,315 na¬
tive Christians and 247 native pastors and teachers.
The peninsula of Minaliassa is Christianized ; out
of 114,000 natives, SO, 000 are converted, with 199
churches and 125 schools. In Sumatra arc twenty-
live missionaries and 9,000 Christians. In the
groups of Melanesia , Mekronesia and. Polynesia ,
there nro 08,000 converts— the Sandwich Islands
having been abandoned by the Ameilean Hoard as
a country Christianized, and the Feji Island being
thus described s “Out of
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population of 120,000.
102,000 are regular worshippers in some 800
churches, all well-built and completed ; in every
family there is morning and evening worship; over
42,000 children are in 1,5:14 Christian day schools;
tho heathenism of the mountains is fast dying
out.’’ In Mekronesia “tho most promising con¬
verts arc all sent out to sow the seed abroad.”
Glance nt the .continents of North and Cen¬
tral and South Americas. Greenland and
Labrador arc “Christian communities.” Among
the Indians of northern North America there are
10,472 Clirlsiiiins, twelve native preachers and
twenty-one schools. In Columbia “ AA'm. Duncan
stands at the head of a community of 1,000, which
lets the largest church between them and San
Francisco.” The Indian tribes of the United
States number 250,000; 200,000 of them are civil¬
ized, in ivholo or In part, and raised in 1877, 4,0.72,-
9.52 bushels of corn ; 27,000 are in full Christian
fellowship, with 21!) churches, 3GG schools, and
12,222 pupils. Among the negroes of the South In
tlie last liftccn years, 1,000 places of worship have
been built; twenty-six institutions for teachers
anti ministry have been founded, whilo tlie num¬
ber of professed Christians arc probably 2,000,000.
In Central America there are 1,105 native converts
and 21,000 Christian adherents. In the AVest In¬
dies. (Danish and English,) out of a population of
one million there are 85,000 communicants ; 248,-
000 church-goers ; 1,123 day schools, with 78,000
pupils— of which number 4.5.000 belong to .Jamaica,
which is thoroughly Protestant. In South America
the AVord lias taken root in the extreme nottli, at
Dcmerara. and the extreme south In Terra del Fu-
ego and the Falkland Islands, and even among the
most degraded ot our race— the Patagonians—
there are twelve believers In Jesus !
Survey AFRICA, includipg Madagascar, which
has 3SG native pastors, 15G Evangelists, 3,4GS local
preachers, 784 schools, 48,794 pupils, of whom 20,-
000 can read ; 117,131 converts and 250,000 Christian
adherents. Africa 1ms 1GG,3S3 Christians and 431,-
S00 adherents.
Skipping Europe, where in the last thirty-five
years the most marvellous work lias been done in
Germany and Scandinavia and Etissla, for evan¬
gelical religion, wo touch hero anti there on Asia.
In Turkey proper there are 3G3 churches and sta¬
tions; 321 schools and colleges; 12,030 pupils and
students; 032 missionaries, and 11.900 converts.
In Syria, including Palestine, there are 2,244 con¬
verts and 2,015 scholars. In Persia there are
1,322 converts and 15,000 adherents. In China , in
1843, there were six converts; in 1S77, 13,515.
Two thnusaml-fold in thirty years. At tlmt rate,
in 1913 there will lie 20,000,000 Christians and 100,-
000,000 adherents. Nor let us think such an esti¬
mate extravagant. In India there were 00,000
converts in the year 1S7S ; and, in all, there are
400,000 to 500,000 Christians. Truly said the
founder of tlie Brnhmo-Samadsh, Kcshub Clninder
Sen : “Christ, not tho Uritisli Government, rules
India ! ”
These results Imply no little work of God's peo¬
ple nt home :
Great Britain shows herself to be the most
Christian nation of the world by doing the most
missionary work. She has 1.300 missionaries in
the field ; has one-half of the heathen converts in
the world; anti appropriates annually $3,500,000
to tlie work.
Tlie free churches of Great Britain, (anti of all
Christian nations.) show themselves to be more
Christian than tlie established churches, by doing
more in proportion to their strength than the es¬
tablishments for this extention of tho kingdom of
Christ.
The Scottish Established Church has 500.000
members, and gives $125,000 annually, or twenty-
five cents per member. The United Presbyterian
Church 1ms 170,000 members, and gives $200,000,
or about 81.18 per member — or more titan four
times as much. The Freo Church, 220,000 mem¬
bers, gives $225,000, or over $1 per member ; and
also more tlmn four times r.s much as the Estab¬
lished Church.
In England the Stato Church 'gives $2,330,305 ;
while the Non-Conformists give $1,021,155; and
tint Scotch and Irish Presbyterian Societies, $095,-
050; making $2,310,205, or about ns much as tho
State Church, “ which is the richest ecclesiastical
body in the world.”
A more striking contrast would be shown were
wo to compare the Established and Free Churches
in other countries. For example : in Germany,
which in the last century was regarded the most
missionary country in the world. Now the estab¬
lishment lias only eleven missionary organiza¬
tions and 200 ordained missionaries In tho field ;
while tlie reformed churches have fifty-live socie¬
ties and 2,000 ordained missionaries. The Moravi¬
ans of Germany give over $1 a member for mis¬
sions; while tlie national church, less than one-half
a cent : or more than 200 times as much. But
the Moravians beat all the world In this work !
Christlleb says : The. German needs three, conver¬
sions : first, of the heart; second, of the bead ; third,
of the purse. AVith regard to the second, they may
specially need it. Many learned professors do not
know that Christianity is advancing in the world ;
ami many that do know it fear the contempt
which tho advocacy of missions would bring on
tiicm. But as to the first and third conversions —
of tlie heart and the purse— all need them!
But how is it in tiie United States, which boasts
of the greatest freedom of the world ?
Tlie number of Protestant Christians In this
country is some S, 750, 000 ; and they give to
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work, $1,750,000, or only eleven cents per member.
In contrast with tlie $1 per member of tlie Freo
Church of Scotland.
But let us come nearer homo : The freest church
of free America is tlie Baptist, who number 2,000,-
(100 of souls; and these two millions give some
three hundred thousand dollars for foreign missions,
which is some fifteen cents per member.
Let us eomc still nearer : There are one and a
half millions of Baptists in the South ; and they'
give less than $50,000 for tills work, which is not
three cents per member. But, you say, a million
are eoloretl. So they arc. But the 2,000 colored
Karens give $2,500, or over $L per member, for
missions annually ; and tho 20,000 Burmese,
340,000 ! or some $2 per member. Tills Is over
sixty-six times as much ns all tlie Baptists of the
South ; thirteen times as much as all the Baptists
of tlie country, and more than twenty times as
m ucli as the white Baptists of the’ South.
Disguise it as we may, the picture that Southern
Baptists present is a sad one, indeed ! Tins freest
and tlie most orthodox church in tlie world, doing
less than most of the evangelical churches in the
world for the extension of tlie cause of tlie Master,
and not a tithe of what some heathen converts do ! !
Tlie picture assumes something of the humiliating
when we see ourselves boasting of ourCbrM likeness
in the face of the world. AVo are a BaptBr, and
we rejoice in our power and growth; but in
view of what we are doing for the world's evan¬
gelization, we believe that sack-cloth and ‘ashes
become us Infinitely more than vaunting ourselves.
