Seventh-day Baptist Missionary Appropriations
By Editor
WE have spent a little time in the study of the appropriations of the Seventh-day Baptist Missionary Society for the year 1906, and we think that our readers may be interested in a brief statement of the results. This society appears to be operating in four fields outside of the United States, having four workers in China, three in Africa, one in Holland, and one in Canada. The appropriations for 1906 for the salaries of workers and other expenses in these fields amount to $4,430. The appropriations for the same year to meet salaries, expenses, and aid rendered to needy churches in the home field amount to $3,535. Thus the grand total of appropriations by this society for both home and foreign work for the year 1906 is $7,965. As a basis for comparison we will state that the appropriations by the Seventh-day Adventist Mission Board have been upward of $100,000 annually for several years, while the tithe of the denomination, expended chiefly for home work, has been about half a million dollars per year in addition to this. The Seventh-day Baptists have stood in defense of the Sabbath truth for several centuries, but are not in sympathy with the other special features of this advent movement. The Sabbath reform apart from the third angel's message seems to progress very slowly. The world needs the whole truth in this generation.