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MISSIONS The See also:Christian See also:Church bases its missionary enterprise upon the spirit, the example, and the commandment of its Founder, and regards the See also:duty as just the same whether the results be[RESULTS results. If, however, we are to take statistical returns for what they are See also:worth, it is estimated that the Christians in See also:heathen lands gathered by See also:Protestant missions probably amount to five millions, and a similar See also:total may be ascribed to See also:Roman See also:Catholic missions, making ten millions in all. This, however, includes adherents still under instruction for See also:baptism, and their See also:children. The inner circle of communicant members is hardly more than one-third of the total. Missions are however a far greater thing after all than See also:simple proselytism. It would require many a See also:volume to tell of what they have done for See also:civilization, freedom, the exploration of unknown regions, the bringing to See also:light of See also:ancient literatures, the See also:founding of the See also:science of See also:comparative See also:religion, the broadening of the See also:horizon of Christian thought in the homelands, and the bringing of distant peoples into the brotherhood of nations. These are results that cannot be put into figures. While it is true that very diverse opinions are held concerning missions, it is indisputable that the most favourable testimonies come from those who have really taken the most pains to examine and understand their See also:work. The one discouraging feature, from the Christian point of view, is the backwardness of Christendom in its See also:great enterprise. If the Churches did their See also:foreign work with the same See also:energy which they throw into their See also:home work, the results would be very different. The figures given below are taken from a table compiled by Dr D. L.

Leonard, and refer only to Protestant missions to non- I.-See also:

STATISTICS OF THE GREAT RELIGIONS (From The See also:Blue See also:Book of Missions, 1907),OF THE See also:WORLD. Christians. Moham- Confucian- Animists, Roman Eastern See also:Jews. medans. Buddhists. See also:Hindus. ists and Shintoists. Fetishists, Unclassed. Totals. Protestants. Catholics. Churches. Taoists. &c.

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Africa . 2,665,000 2,493,000 3,799,000 381,000 50,810,000 11,000 277,000 31,000 - 97,179,500 125,500 157,722,000 See also:America, N. . . 64,488,000 36,693,000 1,000,000 1,069,000 15,000 5,000 94,000 85,00 - 20,000 8,002,000 z11,651,000 Amesica, S. . 362,000 36,125,000 - 22,000 10,000 - 108,000 4,000 - 1,262,000 63,000 37,956,000 See also:Asia . . . 1,542,000 5,385,000 17,144,000 482,000 141,456,000 137,900,000 209,152,000 291,030,000 24,900,000 41,436,000 5,693,000 876,120,000 See also:Australasia . 3,424,000 964,000 1,000 17,000 3,000 4,000 1,000 31,000 - 40,000 70,000 4,555,000 See also:Europe. . 92,922,000 183,754,E 98,213,000 9,247,000 3,576,000 - - - - - 1,319,000 389,031,000 Malaysia . . 416,500 7,095,500 - 3,000 20,760,000 - 27,000 570,000 - 16,445,000 62,000 45,379,000 See also:Oceania . 247,000 129,000 - 1,000 - 15,000 - 65,000 - 507,000 18,000 982,000 Aggregate . . 66,066,5oo 272,638,500 120,157,000 11,222,000 216,630,000 137,935,000 209,659,000 291,816,000 24,900,000 157,069,500 15,352,500 1,623,446,000 558,862,000 large or small.

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common sense, saying in effect, " If it be a fact that a Divine See also:Person came into the world to bless mankind, all men ought to know it, and have a right to know it. However much or (if you will) little a Buddhist or a Christian and non-Protestant peoples. The figures are for 1907, and should be compared with those in the Statistical See also:Atlas. This See also:list gives a total of 69 Foreign Missionary See also:Societies, of which 34 are See also:American, 19 See also:British, so See also:German, and 6 other societies. The statistics for these 69 societies may be grouped as follows:- II.-See also:SUMMARY OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WORK. OTHER SOCIETIES, Viz. Totals for 1895 See also:Paris Society, AMERICAN. BRITISH. GERMAN. Swiss Romande, Totals for (showing growth See also:Netherlands Societies, Christendom. between 1895 and Scandinavian Societies, 1907). &c. Ordained Missionaries 1,911 1,98o 932 912 5,735 4,028 Laymen 535 1,738 168 361 2,802 1,477 Unmarried See also:women .

. 1,527 2,332 150 378 4,387 2,578 Ordained natives . . 2,312 2,141 197 623 5,273 4,295 Communicants (full members) 545,180 565,179 240,883 466,208 1,817,450 995,793 See also:

Numbers added in 1906 . 63,916 38,614 25,983 12,336 140,849 63,081 Adherents 1,286,259 1,398,306 540,073 1,136,500 4,361,138 2,770,801 See also:Schools 8,855 11,789 2,878 5,346 28,868 19,384 Scholars . . . . 344,213 619,399 139,891 199,402 1,302,905 786,002 1906 . , . £4,256,029 1 • • £4,473,9331 Moslem may need to know of See also:Christ, he certainly has a claim to be told of Him. The responsibility, if there be any, of believing, rests with the individual told; the responsibility of telling him rests with the Christian Church." On this view of the See also:matter, results, however desirable, are no certain test of a See also:mission doing its work. A mission in See also:Persia, with its handful of converts, has, on this view, as much right to support and appreciation as a mission in See also:southern See also:India with its tens of thousands. Again, on the See also:hypothesis that See also:Christianity is true, the statistics at a particular See also:period are no test of success at all. For in them the dead are not counted; and the converts who are already dead are-at least in respect of individual salvation-the surest of £2,724,194 £3,095,915 1907 • £3,932,377 A world missionary See also:conference was held at See also:Edinburgh in See also:June 1910, which aimed at making, on a See also:scale far more comprehensive than had been previously attempted, a thorough and scientific study of the. problems involved in the relation of Christianity to the non-Cllristian world. For two years preceding the conference eight representative commissions investigated the following questions: 1 The Statistical Atlas (1910) puts it at £5,071,225, of which British and American societies each find about £2,000,000, and German societies £427,455.

1895 1900 1905 (I) Carrying the See also:

Gospel to all the non-Christian world; (2) the Church in the mission See also:field; (3) See also:education in relation to the Christianization of See also:national See also:life; (4) the missionary See also:message in relation to non-Christian religions; (5) the preparation of missionaries; (6) the home See also:base of missions; (7) missions and governments; (8) co-operation and the promotion of unity. The reports on these subjects in eight volumes, together with a ninth volume giving the proceedings of the conference itself, and a statistical atlas, will for some See also:time be the vade mecum of See also:information on Christian missions, and precludes the need of any See also:attempt at a bibliography here, an attempt which would indeed be doomed to failure. It may not, however, be out of See also:place to See also:call See also:attention, in addition to literature already cited, to a few See also:recent books, chiefly manuals, in several of which full lists of missionary books are given. E. M. See also:Bliss, The Missionary Enterprise (1908); E. Stock, A See also:Short Handbook of Missions (1904); H. H. See also:Montgomery, Foreign Missions (1904) ; T. Moscrop, The See also:Kingdom Without Frontiers (1910) ; W. T. Whitley, Missionary Achievement (1908) ; S.

L. Gulick, The Growth of the Kingdom of See also:

God (1897) ; B. See also:Lucas, The See also:Empire of Christ, a study of the missionary enterprise in the light of See also:modern religious thought (1907) ; R. H. See also:Malden, Foreign Missions, a study of some principles and methods (1910); G. See also:Smith, Short See also:History of Christian Missions (1897); G. Warneck, Outline of a History of Protestant Missions (1901; new German ed., 1910). See also J. S. See also:Dennis, Centennial Survey of Foreign Missions (1902), Christian Missions and Social Progress (3 vols., 1897) ; G. Warneck, Modern Missions and Culture (1882) ; E. Stock, History of the Church Missionary Society (3 vols., 1899) ; J.

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Myers, See also:Centenary Volume of the Baptist Missionary Society (1892) ; R. Lovett, History of the See also:London Missionary Society (2 vols.,. 1899) ; J. See also:Lowe, Medical Missions, Their Place and See also:Power. A somewhat overlooked See also:side of missions, viz. the " attempt to estimate the contribution of great races to the fulness of the Church of God," is presented in Mankind and the Church, edited by See also:Bishop H. H. Montgomery (1907). The See also:Encyclopaedia of Missions (2nd ed., 1904) edited by Bliss, See also:Dwight and See also:Tupper; The Blue Book of Missions by H. O. Dwight (1907); and the already mentioned Statistical Atlas of Missions (1910) by H. P.

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Beach, are all of the highest value. For Roman Catholic Missions see Missiones Catholicae cura S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide descriptae (Romae, ex Typographia poly g llotta S. C. de Prop. Fid. [See also:official biennial publication]) ; Louvet, See also:Les Missions Catholiques [au] xix Siecle (See also:Lyon, See also:Bureau See also:des Missions Catholiques, 14 See also:Rue de la Charite, 1900) ; Piolet, Les Missions Catholiques Franfaises [au] xix'. Siecle (6 vols., Paris, A. See also:Colin, 5 Rue des See also:Mezieres) • H. A. Krose, Katholische Missionsstatistik (19o8); K. Streit, Katholischen Missionsatlas (1908). (E.

Sr; H. T. A.; A. J.

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