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Moral Aspect of the World.

Asia contains	585,000,000		Heathen….	600,000,000
Europe contains	235,000,000		Mahometans..	140,000,000
Africa contains	110,000,000	of which are	Jews ……..	10,000,000
America contains	50,000,000		Romish Church	130,000,000
Oceanica contains	20,000,000		Greek…….	55,000,000
Total..	1,000,000,000		Protestant denominations ..	65,000,000

Protestant Missions.—The whole number of Foreign Missionaries are as follows:—

North American Indians, 105; Africa, 236; Western Asia, 31; India, 365; Burmah, Siam, 33; China, 54; South Sea Islands, 110; West Indies, 324; Greenland, 30; the Jews, 37; total, 1,345; total Assistant Missionaries, 233; Native Assistants, 1,958; Communicants, 174,426; Scholars, 122,542.

Let the pious reader look at these two accounts, and he will sigh over the millions which are yet “sitting in darkness, and in the valley of the shadow of death,” And let him ask himself, what have I done to help forward the cause of Christ?