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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 38.

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Foot-Notes for Table No. 1

1. Since mission fields are not organized in the way conferences are, the dates in Column 2 do not refer to the time of their organization, as in the case of conferences, but to the time when the field was entered or when information was first separately given in these reports. The distinction between conferences and mission fields is indicated by greater indentation in names of mission fields.
2. The tithe per capita is based upon the total Sabbath-keepers, and not the membership of churches only.
3. By total laborers in Column 19 is meant the total number employed in the conference or mission field in evangelistic work, including not only the four classes named in the preceding columns, but all other persons not thus specified. The totals in Column 19 are not always, therefore, the totals of the four preceding columns, but are frequently greater.
4. Column 20 shows the retail value of book and periodical sales; the periodical sales of union conferences, however, are included only in countries outside the United States. Because of the transfer of the periodical sales in the United States from union totals to the line for General Conference, as explained in Note 14, a correct comparison of book sales by union conferences is possible only by deducting the periodical sales noted in the 1906 report. Where book sales are not shown by local conferences, the amount of sales by publishing houses is given for the union conference in which they are located. This is in cases where the publishing houses deal directly, and not through local conference organizations. In any event there is no duplication of amounts.
5. This being the first report which includes the Missionary Volunteer Department, as well as the information given in Columns 13, 14, 32, and 33, there is no comparison made with the standing of former years. The information which properly belongs after Column 33, regarding the number of colleges, academies, and intermediate schools, the number of teachers, and the total enrolment, coming under the supervision of the Educational Department, is transferred from Table No. 1 to Table No. 2, Section 1, in order that these institutions may be classified, and that more details may be shown than the space in Table No. 1 will allow.
6. The gain of the Atlantic Union Conference is decreased by the transfer, during 1907, of about half its former territory, which was organized into the Columbia Union Conference; the gain of the Central Union Conference is decreased by the transfer of the Iowa Conference to the Northern Union Conference during the year; likewise the net gain of the Lake Union Conference is decreased by the transfer of the Ohio Conference from its territory to that of the Columbia Union Conference. In giving a reason for failing to report some of the items for the Wisconsin Conference under the Lake Union Conference, the president of that conference expressed in words what the secretaries of some other conferences have indicated by action, as follows: “Too busily employed in matters of greater importance.”
7. Since the Western Canadian Union Conference was organized during 1907, out of territory formerly comprised in the North Pacific and Northern Union Conferences, it is impossible to make comparison with the standing for 1906; this transfer also favorably affects the totals of the North Pacific Union Conference, while the Northern Union Conference, although decreased by the transfer of territory to form the Western Canadian Union Conference, is considerably increased by the addition of the Iowa Conference during 1907. In the organization of three new union conferences in North America during 1907,—the Columbia, the Southeastern, and the Western Canadian, for which no comparison can be shown with the standing for 1906,—there has been a somewhat general re-arrangement of territorial lines.
8. The Kentucky Conference was organized Feb. 11, 1908. It is listed separately in this report for convenience, as showing the division of the field at the time of publication. All funds paid in 1907 in territory now comprising the Kentucky Conference are included in the report of the Cumberland Conference, to which it was attached in 1907, which conference is now listed under the Southeastern Union Conference. Only items not affecting duplication or omission are shown for Kentucky in this report. The subdivision of the Southern Union Conference renders a comparison with standing for 1906 of little value, hence it is not given.
9. The number of laborers in institutions in the European union conferences is omitted from Table No. 1, Column 19, this year, and included in a new list in Table No. 2, where it properly belongs. The comparison with the 1906 report is made on the basis of that omission both in union and grand total amounts.
10. The amount of second tithe paid by local conferences in all the European union conferences is shown in Column 21. This money is devoted to mission work in the union.
11. Mission schools in German East Africa.
12. The figures of the German Union Conference for 1906 included also the returns from the Russian field, here segregated for the first time, and appearing under the RussianUnion Conference, which began its separate existence, Jan. 1, 1908. This accounts for the totals being less for the German Union Conference, though the increase in that field in 1907 has been decidedly apparent.
13. Includes book sales by Upper Parana and Uruguay missions.
14. Under General Conference are included those engaged in general labor as well as the amount of tithes and offerings not accounted for elsewhere in this report. There are also shown the approximate value of periodical sales in the United States during 1907, by the following publishing houses: Review and Herald, $70,000; Southern Publishing Association, $20,525; Pacific Press Publishing Company, $100,000; International Publishing Association, $21,651.50; South Lancaster Printing Company (books and periodicals), $12,000; Berrien Springs Printing Company, $1,377.53; estimated value of the sixteen State and the seven union conference papers circulated in the United States, $6,500; total, $232,054.03. In other union conferences the periodical sales are shown in the totals for the unions, as explained in Note 4.
15. The four quarterly reports which the Sabbath-school Department published for 1907 show the following: Total Sabbath-school contributions, $86,454.47; donations to missions, $71,753.01. This annual report shows, respectively, $85,102.89 and $71,475.59. The difference is accounted for by the difference of time in making out the reports. The annual report calls for receipts by the State secretary up to December 31, and not later; while quarterly reports may be held by local secretaries to include other amounts. Furthermore, the quarterly statements include reports from foreign fields one quarter behind those in the United States; hence, as the time of reporting does not correspond, the amounts do not agree.
16. The report for the Australasian Union Conference was received August 9, 1908, when it was found not to contain the information called for in Columns 13, 14, and 32 to 39. The figures given in the table for the first four columns are estimated, while those for Columns 34 to 39, regarding the Missionary Volunteer Department, are taken from the quarterly reports published by the General Conference Missionary Volunteer Department.

Foot-Notes for Table No. 2

1. The system of educational work outlined by the Educational Department of the General Conference in 1906, comprising sixteen grades, or years of study, is arranged as follows: Church-schools (information concerning which will be found listed under Columns 29 to 33 in Table No. 1), grades 1 to 8; intermediate schools, grades 7 to 10; academies, grades 9 to 12; colleges, grades 13 to 16.
2. The assets of the institution shown in Table No. 2 are not compiled from official annual statements of the institutions represented. In some cases they may be inaccurate, and should properly be considered as estimates of the amounts invested in the various enterprises specified.
3. The assets of Loma Linda College of Evangelists are included in the amount stated for the Loma Linda Sanitarium (which is listed under Section 3 of Table No. 2), asboth institutions are owned and operated by the same management.
4. The annual output of publishing houses should not be confused with the annual book and periodical sales by conferences and missions, as shown in Column 20 of Table No. 1. The former is the amount billed out by the publishing houses, while the latter is the amount actually sold in the field.
5. The total here would not indicate the number of languages in which denominational publications are issued, since some of the publishing houses issue in the same language, thus duplicating the number. The following is a list of the languages in which denominational literature is issued:—
Amoy dialect (China) Icelandic
Arabic Italian
Armenian-Greek Japanese
Basuto Kafir
Bengali Laplandish
Bohemian Lettonian
Bulgarian Livonian
Burmese Malay
Cantonese (China) Mandarin (China)
Danish-Norwegian Manganja
Dutch Maori
English Polish
Esthonian Portuguese
Fijian Rarotongan
Finnish Rumanian
French Russian
German Samoan
Greek Santali
Hawaiian Servian
Hebrew Sesuto
Hindi Slovakian
Hungarian Spanish
| Swahili | Turkish-Armenian | | Swedish | Urdu | | Tahitian | Welsh | | Tamil | Yiddish | | Tongan | Zulu | Total, 54
In addition to the information given in Section 2 of Table No. 2, the following statement regarding periodicals indicates the various kinds published by the denomination at the close of 1907:— Journals having a general circulation . . . . . 18 Union conference periodicals . . . . . . . . . 15 Local conference periodicals . . . . . . . . . 22 Periodicals in foreign languages . . . . . . . 43 Special periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Total number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Of the foregoing 26 are weekly; 21 semi-monthly; 52 monthly; 4 bimonthly; 6 quarterly. Total pages of one copy of each of the foregoing journals . . . . . . . . 1,300 Combined annual subscription price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $52.16 Number of languages in which published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6. In the absence of any information whatever from those in charge, these amounts are estimated by compiler.

Foot-Notes for Table No. 3

1. Estimated conservatively.
2. By the term “mission” is meant a local field not yet organized into a conference, whether in the United States or elsewhere.
3. In the column showing total laborers are included all persons specified in preceding columns as well as all other evangelistic laborers not thus specified. The amount shown in this column is therefore frequently more than the total of the four preceding columns.
4. Beginning with 1900 the report shows the number of Sabbath-keepers, as well as the church-membership. The difference is made up of members of companies and isolated believers. From this date the tithe per capita is based on the Sabbath-keepers.
5. From 1887 to 1907 the amount given to missions, and included in the preceding column, was $587,197.92. There was sent to the Haskell Home through the Sabbath-school Department from 1897 to 1904, and by the General Conference for the two years following, a total of $53,104.40, leaving $276,300.54 as the amount retained by the local Sabbath-schools from 1887 to 1907.