Foot-notes for Table No. 1

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1907

Foot-notes for Table No. 1

1. The tithe per capita is based upon the total Sabbath-keepers.

2. By “total laborers” in column 20 is meant the number of persons employed in the conference or mission field, including not only the four classes named, but all other persons not specified.

3. Full returns have not yet been secured for columns 37 and 38.

4. In column 39 is shown the retail value of book and periodical sales. In unions where periodical sales were not already accounted for, they have been conservatively estimated, and the amount shown in the line for each union. These sales are not duplicated by the local conferences. In the Canadian and Southern Union book sales are also reported by the union publishing house, since they deal directly, and not through an intermediate organization.

5. Tithe for Western New York for only that portion of year after it was organized; hence the small per capita. Because of the division of the New York and Western New York Conferences during 1906, the per cent of gain can not be shown.

6. Mission fields are indicated by proper indentations in the columns where these names appear. They are unorganized, hence the dates given do not indicate the time they were organized, but when the work in each field was first reported separately.

7. Including institutional laborers not counted elsewhere.

8. 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.

9. The four quarterly reports which the Sabbath-school Department has published for 1906 show the following: Total Sabbath-school contributions, $74,775.26; donations to missions, $57,913.71. This annual report shows, respectively, $75,068.55 and $58,866.14. The difference is accounted for by the difference of time in making out the reports. The annual report closes December 31. Furthermore, the quarterly reports 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.

Foot-notes for Table No. 2

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 laborers not thus specified.

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 point the tithe per capita is based on the Sabbath-keepers.

5. From 1887 to 1906 the amount given to missions, and included in preceding column, was $515,722.33, while $53,104.40 was given through this particular avenue to the Haskell Home for Orphans from 1897 to 1906, leaving $262,670.24 as the amount retained by local schools.