Show TIm I 1 S SIn In connection with th the ecumenical I conference cl of missionaries In New York It le III pointed out that the followers of I creede have no DO longer any n reason to fear a comparison between themselves and It If reference Is In made ad to numbers One OM ta table ble I le a as follows raja Pagans n Hindus end SIkh Buddhists Confucian etc tc an Jews J t H Roman man Catholics Protestants Other Christians Total What Is particularly striking In this hi enumeration olI ls Ia the fact that tbt Buddhism and so Ie on oa art are artno areno no longer classed os paganism At one time Ume the they were all I Ia that term and nd the total against Christianity became overwhelming Hy Dy further sub subdivision division the lip on the side of the ledger Ider should appear still larger larr The tact falt romaine that wh when n Catholic and nd other Christians a are all put In one clan clanthey cia the they number not quite live Ave hundred millions million to over on one thou tend and millions million and among these the tle follower of 01 ancient Asiatic religions outnumber the largest Christian bod body by over or two hundred million while hill the follower of on one of the newest nil Mohammedan I tim lam nearly nearl equal the adherents adherent of oC the Ibe laJ largest lt church the Roman Catholic Hitherto tit the Christiana ha have been almost alone In ml enterprises except for the Mohammedan traders may love been making makin la In the Interior ot of Africa or In Asia All but there are evidences that this will be so 10 no longer The of India are look lookIng k kIn In Ing westward for to their ranks and It ls not Ible to ay what the will be The world I Is liven given to and fatalism The Th e shine out through the novel nove liter atur of oC till the age and anel they follow scion Life research u a dark shadow hadow Then there I is a quite widespread wl tendency to turn tum back to the duty duet that have brought to the millions million of tilt 11 There I ii some troll 1011 prepared for the religions ot of Persia India and nd China In the midst of Chris Christendom and It t would be Idl idle to tl try to foretell what will be the final dual out Olt outcome come It II s quite certain that tbt III n soave where once wu wua plates lt a as a burning candle In a dark place the candlestick Iran been removed and nd 10 now rei reign rill lulls In Ita |