Rising Churches in NonChristian Lands Author:Arthur Judson Brown Subtitle: Lectures Delivered on the College of Missions Lectureship, Indianapolis; the Severance Lectureship, Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Presbyterian Dept. of Missionary Education Subjects: Missions Religion / Christian Ministry / Missio... more »ns Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PRESENT STRENGTH AND INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH Statistics are said to be dry. If they are, it is because we do not stop to consider what they mean. Missionary statistics throb with life. They tabulate the visible results of years of devoted toil by men and women of whom the world is not worthy. General Survey Statistical Data Difficult. Accuracy in such statistics is peculiarly difficult. It is not easy to collect reliable data of churches in America. The task is enormously increased when we deal with churches in many widely separated lands, which are under a distracting variety of organizations, and whose affiliations are with hundreds of different agencies whose methods of computation are not uniform. Moreover, the rapidity of growth in some fields is so great that figures are often out of date by the time they can be published. The most careful work on this subject is done by the Special Committee on Statistics of the Continuation Committee and the Committee on the Home Base of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America. 821480 Some World Totals. The latest obtainable reports1 give 3,167,614 communicants; 130,262 native ministers, evangelists, teachers, and other workers; and i,86o,,'i45 enrolled in Sunday-schools. This indicates a Christian community, including communicants, Sunday-school children, other members of C...« less