THE Thirty-fourth session (seventh biennial session) of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was opened in the Tabernacle, in this city, Tuesday, April 2, 1901, at 9 A. M. The daily program of the General Conference is as follows:—
5:30– 6:30 A. M., Social meeting.
7:00– A. M., Breakfast.
9:00–10:00 A. M., Bible study.
10:30–12:20 A. M., Business proceedings.
1:00 P. M., Dinner.
3:00– 5:00 P. M., General business.
6:00– 6:50 P. M., Divisional prayer-meeting.
7:00– 8:15 P. M., Preaching. The number of accredited delegates at the Conference is 216; the number of non-delegate visitors, 1,500. The interest in the paper Present Truth (London, Eng.) is increasing, the average weekly circulation of the same during the past year being over fifteen thousand. The amount of tithe paid by the denomination during the past two years aggregates $1,000,915.13, which is $205,341.89 more than the amount received during 1897 and ’98. The Conferences admitted to the General Conference the first day of the Conference were the two Australasian Conferences—Queensland and South Australia; the Cumberland Conference, of District 2; and the Ontario Conference. The present membership of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination throughout the world is 75,763; the number of members added in the past two years being 12,504, or nearly twice as many as during the two preceding years. During the year 1900 over 207,000 copies of the Religious Liberty Library were printed, the number of pages actually circulated amounting to 4,000,000. Besides this, over 1,220,000 pages of the old series of the Religious Liberty Library were distributed. Among some of the recent efforts of the International Religious Liberty Association is the sending of the Sentinel to more than four thousand lawmakers, State and national, and presenting to the members of the New York Legislature two hundred copies of “Legal Sunday,” and sixty-three copies of “Two Republics.” Since the General Conference of 1899 nine sanitariums have been established,—one in Germany, two in Australia, one in New Zealand, and five in the United States,—thus making the total number of such institutions twenty-four. Also, many bath- and treatment-rooms, rescue missions, industrial homes, and hygienic restaurants have been established in various parts of the world. On May 1, 1900, the American Sentinel was transferred from the Pacific Press Publishing Company to the International Religious Liberty Association. The average circulation of the thirty-three issues published during the remainder of the year was about 9,000 copies a week, making a total of over 290,000 copies, or 4,700,000 pages. The name of the paper was changed to Sentinel of Liberty. Sister E. G. White preached in the Tabernacle, Sabbath, March 30. She also spoke at the same place, Sabbath, April 6, on which occasion fully thirty-five hundred persons were present to hear the sermon on tithe-paying. Overflow meetings were held at the same hour, in the College chapel, the Sanitarium chapel, and the Review and Herald chapel, the audiences being addressed by W. W. Prescott, J. O. Corliss, and E. J. Waggoner, respectively.