Some Figures from the Ecumenical Conference

SOME FIGURES FROM THE ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE.

In the total number of Protestant societies engaged in conducting foreign missions, forty-nine of them are in the United States, and the income of these home societies from home and foreign sources is $5,403,048. These societies employ 160 physicians, of whom 116 are women. They have 4,107 churches, with 421,597 communicants. The total native contributions amount to $628,717. England, with forty-two societies, ranks next to the United States in the number of her foreign [missions. The income from these forty-two organizations, however, exceeds the forty-nine in this country by $1,439,983. Her societies send out 139 physicians and 664 lay missionaries. They support 4,744 churches, with a total number of communicants of 278,548. The total income from 249 societies which embrace practically all those of the Christian world is $17,161,092. The total number of organized churches is 10,993, and the total numberlof communicants 1,289,298. There are 14,940 Sunday Schools and 764,684 pupils. In educational advantages India leads with thirty-four institutions having a total membership of 22,084. China comes next with twelve, and Japan third with nine.