--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 8 published: 1900-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Some Figures from the Ecumenical Conference," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 8 (June 1900): 597.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera38unse start_page: 597 end_page: 597 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse publication_year: 1900 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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.