Financial Summary for 1909

Tithe

Per Cent of Fund Named Per Cent of Grand Total From the United States ............ $860,573.86 70.64 From all other countries .......... 357,669.60 29.36 Total $1,218,243.46 61.39

Offerings

From the United States:— Reported by conferences .......... 214,884.51 Reported by Sabbath-schools ...... 81,225.41 Reported by Miss. Vol. societies .. 7,180.07 303,289.99 79.18 From all other countries:— Reported by conferences .......... 43,554.47 Reported by Sabbath-schools ...... 32,988.47 Reported by Miss. Vol. societies .. 3,252.00 79,794.94 20.82 Total $383,084.93 19.30

Special Funds

Tithes appropriated by conferences in United States for evangelistic work in mission fields ................ 77,857.39 Tithes in all other countries ........ 20,628.02 98,485.41 Total “offerings” noted above ........ 383,084.93 Total for mission fields in 1909 ..... 481,570.34 Total of similar funds in 1908 ....... 444,127.94 Increase for 1909 .................... 37,442.40

Home Missions

Contributed for support of orphanages, religious liberty work, work for colored people, and various lines of mission work, where the funds are sent outside the church, but not to a foreign field:— From the United States:— Reported by conferences ............ 78,897.57 Reported by Miss. Vol. societies .... 3,985.27 82,882.84 60.54 From all other countries:— Reported by conferences ............ 52,792.34 Reported by Miss. Vol. societies .... 1,233.55 54,025.89 39.46 Total $136,908.73 6.90

Local Church Work

Contributed for local church work, such as distribution of literature, assisting needy poor, church expenses, maintenance of church-schools, and all other local missionary work or enterprises:— From the United States:— Reported by conferences ............ 115,337.92 Maintenance of church-schools ...... 97,902.06 Maintenance of local Sabbath- schools ........................ 5,482.78 Reported by Miss. Vol. societies .... 2,464.39 221,187.15 89.80 From all other countries:— Reported by Conferences ............ 16,825.34 Maintenance of church-schools ...... 6,800.08 Maintenance of local Sabbath- schools ........................ 986.14 Reported by Miss. Vol. societies .... 521.32 25,132.88 10.20 Total $246,320.03 12.41

Financial Summary for 1909 (Concluded)

Grand Total

Per Cent of Fund Named Per Cent of Grand Total Grand total of all funds raised by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in 1909 for evangelistic work: From the United States ............ $1,467,933.84 73.97 From all other countries .......... 516,623.31 26.03 Total for 1909 ................ $1,984,557.15 100.00% Total for 1908 .................... 1,770,649.07 Net gain .......................... 213,908.08 Per cent of gain .................. 11.21

Another statement as to funds indicates that there was— Per Cent Raised by churches, as tithes ........ $1,218,243.46 61.39 Raised by churches, as offerings (foreign, home, and local) ....... 522,292.15 26.32 Total by churches ................ $1,740,535.61 87.71 Contributed by Sabbath-schools ....... 120,682.80 6.08 For maintenance of church-schools ... 104,702.14 5.27 By Miss. Volunteer Department ....... 18,636.60 .94 Total by departments ............. 244,021.54 12.29 Grand Totals ..................... $1,984,557.15 100.00

Communicants

Total Sabbath-keepers in the United States ............ 65,122 64.52 Total Sabbath-keepers outside the United States ...... 35,809 35.48 Total ............................................. 100,931 100.00 Per cent of gain ...................................... 3.45 Per capita of total funds from communicants in the United States ...... $22.54 Per capita of total funds from communicants outside of the United States . 14.43 Per capita for entire communicants ................................. 19.66