A Useful and Valuable Report by Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

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

A Useful and Valuable Report

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

THIS week’s REVIEW contains the statistical report of our cause for the year 1907. This report is so full of useful and valuable information that it deserves special mention here, and should receive careful study by our people. Here are some of its interesting and instructive items:—

1. A brief history of the beginning and growth of our cause, giving groups of general statistical summaries.

2. A summary of facts regarding our membership, funds, and laborers for 1907. These are given separately for the United States, and all other lands are combined, thus showing at a glance the relative standing of what we call the home and foreign fields.

3. The statistical tables. These tables give a vast amount of information respecting every union and local conference and every mission field in the world. No less than thirty-nine different items of information are accurately given in these tables. Here are some of these items: The date of the organization of every union and local conference; the year when we entered every mission field in which we are now operating; the population of each conference and mission field; the number of Sabbath-keepers in each; the tithes paid, and the contributions raised by each; the number of laborers supported in each; and full information concerning the standing of the Sabbath-school, Educational, and Missionary Volunteer departments.

4. A table giving the names and location of all our colleges, academies, and intermediate schools, our publishing houses, and our sanitariums. This table also gives the value of each of these institutions, the number of buildings and acres of land, the capacity and patronage, also the number of persons employed.

5. A table giving the most important statistics of our cause for each year from 1863 to 1907, thus showing at a glance our progress year by year for forty-four years.

6. A list of all the countries in which we have established mission stations, and the number of members and churches in each.

7. A list of all the languages in which we are now publishing our message to the world.

It is hardly necessary to say that a report containing such a vast amount of information regarding our cause is worthy of careful study by all our people. Our ministers, conference officers, leaders of departmental work, and managers of institutions will find the details of this report of great service.

This will be a good number of the REVIEW for all our people to lend to their friends and neighbors. This cause is beginning to attract the attention of many thoughtful people, and it will do them good to learn of its progress. Not long ago one of the leading denominational papers in the United States gave its readers more than a column of facts taken from one of our annual reports. We are glad to have all men know that the prospering hand of God is in this movement. A. G. DANIELLS.