MILLIONS AWAITING THE GOSPEL

Evening Star, Issue 19221, 12 April 1926, Page 8

MILLIONS AWAITING THE GOSPEL

The CUrepM has been carried into every corner of the world, but, there are stilt millions whom Christianity has not, yet readied. Says ' Ibis Kvankelsche Heutsctv hrml,’ is it is reprinted in 'The Lutheran';

" Africa has 42,(H«1,fV)ii Mohammedans. Out. of 3,600,000 inhabitants of Madagascar there aro 3,000,000 heathen. Siam, ' the land of the free,’ has 67,000 Buddhist priests and 13,000 Buddhist temples. Quito a number of Uio 340,000 Indians in the United H/iles of America are still adherents of the faith of their forefathers. Of the popu ation of Indii, 217,000,000 ate Hindus, 69,00-0.000 are Mohammedans, 11.000. aro Buddhists, 10,000,000 are Airmlsts, and less than 5,000,000 aro Christians. China ha-s more than 300,000,000 adherents of heathen religions. There are in Japan 118,000 Shinto temples and shrines, and more than 70,000 Buddhist temples, ('■o of Japan’s iotal population of 77.000. people, 72.000,000 are aduercnU in wsm! luo religions.”