Our Statistical Report for 1910 by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 24, 1911

Our Statistical Report for 1910

By Arthur G. Daniells

The statistical report for 1910, which appears in this issue, should be of interest and value to every believer in this cause. This report indicates very clearly the progress that has been made in our work during the year, and also gives a brief résumé of former years, so that the reader is able to obtain a fair understanding of every department of our work so far as it can be reported statistically.

The report gives information regarding the main features of work carried on by our conferences and their departments in all parts of the world, indicating the territory and population of each conference, its membership, laborers, and funds, all properly classified and grouped. Thus one is readily able to secure almost any information that may be desired in connection with our conferences or any of their departments. Our institutional work, which is becoming more and more an important factor in our message, is also given attention, so that the reader may obtain an intelligent idea of the work of our denominational institutions, where they are located, what their assets are, how many are connected with them, and something of the results of their work during the year, and a comparison with former years.

In connection with the report will be found various summaries, by which the entire report may be studied in its general features. The information is thus presented in such a way that the reader may obtain a comprehensive idea, and can determine the trend of our work, and the relation which each department or group sustains to the whole. Summaries Nos. 3-7 are especially valuable in setting forth the work of our various departments, and show unmistakably the providence of God in the development of this cause.

There are those who would make it appear that this cause is disintegrating. Does the evidence presented in Summary No. 9 look very much like disintegration? The reader should study this summary carefully. Our cause as it stood forty-five years ago is illustrated, followed by its standing for each decade since. The five years preceding 1910 indicate almost as much growth as shown for the previous ten years, wonderful as that growth was. To-day there are twenty-five times as many persons identified with this cause as there were forty-five years ago, and each one of that increased number is giving for the support and extension of this message over seven times what each member gave in 1865.

The growth of our publishing work is given in Summary No. 3. From this it will be seen that each year we are now printing and selling over $1,250,000 worth of our publications, in sixty-seven languages; and representatives in various parts of the world are heralding the truth in still other languages.

The growth of our cause in foreign lands is very encouraging. Our first missionary was sent out in 1874. To-day we have representatives and an organized work in nearly every civilized and heathen country in the world. Thus within the space of thirty-six years this message has extended from one country to nearly every country on the face of the earth. While we are not at all satisfied with the progress we have made, yet we have reason to thank God and take courage as we see the evidences of God’s presence in this work.

I wish to suggest that our brethren, especially our workers, preserve this report and give it careful study. It can be used to good advantage in many ways in our churches and among our friends who may wish to know how our cause is progressing. May what has been accomplished lead us to a fuller consecration to this good work.

A. G. DANIELLS.