Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . ula 837,680 823 3,379 Malay,Borneo, Java and 57,890 89 113 Chinese Empire 532,448 1,168 3,930 Corea and Japan 84,410 , 772 247 Africa 458,170 1,015 1,649 British America 2,187,480 2,766 2,716 United States 9,479,250 10,049 10,922 West Indies 339,200 195 257 Patagonia 99,500 70 89 Australia 704,170 736 1,280 Polynesia 196,850 348 684 24,352,232 30,135 36,822 EOMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 1
Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . ula 837,680 823 3,379 Malay,Borneo, Java and 57,890 89 113 Chinese Empire 532,448 1,168 3,930 Corea and Japan 84,410 , 772 247 Africa 458,170 1,015 1,649 British America 2,187,480 2,766 2,716 United States 9,479,250 10,049 10,922 West Indies 339,200 195 257 Patagonia 99,500 70 89 Australia 704,170 736 1,280 Polynesia 196,850 348 684 24,352,232 30,135 36,822 EOMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 199 The American Statistical Association publishes the following re-turns as to the number of Christians (excluding Greeks and Kopts)in the various MISSIONARY COUNTRIES in 1893 : Catholics. Protestants. Total. India *1,199,000 534,000 l,733,00a China 1,116,000 88,000 1,204,000 Siberia 70,000 20,000 90,000 Japan 30,000 30,000 Syria, etc 663,000 20,000 683,000 Total in Asia 3,078,000 602,000 3,740,000 Total in Africa 2,660,000 1,740,000 4,400,000 Manila, Java, etc 5,720,000 220,000 5,940,000 Totals 11,458,000 2,622,000 14,080,000 * The English Catholic Register for 1898 gives the number as 1,870, GREEK CHRISTIANITY. Peof. Andrew C. Zenos^ , [Replying to the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII addressed to the GreekChurch, July, 1894, on the subject of reunion, the Greek ecclesiastics, afterspecifying the dangerous inovations which the Roman Catholic Church hasintroduced, say: Overlooking, however, many material and weighty differences in the beliefsof the two churches—differences created, as we have seen, in the West—HisBeatitude [Pope Leo XIII] represents in his encyclical that the question ofthe supremacy of the Roman bishops is the decisive and only cause of dis-cord, and refers us to original sources wherein to seek what it was that ourforefathers thought thereof, and what was the tradition of early when we do refer back to the Fathers and to the ecumenic
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