The work in China is only a part of the world-wide missionary activities of the Adventist Church. The latest published statistics, December 31, 1997, show that the 8,388 churches throughout the world had a membership of 452,785. In the operation of their work they are employing 20,029 evangelists and institutional labourers and are conducting work in 385 countries, islands, and island groups, and are using 714 languages and dialects, Literature is being prepared and circulated in 194 and 243 SA ons E opisa: languages. There are 2,528 primary
tion, employing chers. e total enrolment is over 120,000. Eighty-nine sanitariums and sixty-four treatment "rooms employing medical workers are ministe: ing to the sick. During the year under review nearly 700,000 persons received medical care and the ity work done exceeded $383,000, S. currency. During 1937 more than a million garments were given out.to those in need and tons of bandages were sent where emergency meeds were urgent. Volunteer workers cared for more than 3,300,000 requiring some phase of relief The institutions operated by the M ti in the Shanghai areas d as a result of the heavier losses d in the" interior. are the complete loss of China Training Institute, their advanced school for China, located between Nanking and Chinkiang. Properties have been destroyed or damaged at Changsha, Nanchang, and a number of other places.
President W. H. Bronson, head of the Adventist organization in China, in his addresses given each day at the council, is stressing the need of a spiritual revival, higher standards in living, and an advance move in evangelism.
At the meeting this evening Pastor A. L. Ham, director of the work in Kwangtung, Fukien, and Kwangsi, will" report on the missionary activities in those provinces.
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