The 1912 Year Book

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 1, 1912

The 1912 Year Book

The Year Book gives information upon the following points, with which it is probable that many Seventh-day Adventists are not familiar, and answers many questions which most of us could not answer correctly, offhand: The number of organized union and local conferences and missions at the present time, with the number of believers in each; the number of institutions in each union, their total investment, with the number of employees engaged in service.

Speaking of institutions, it was not many years ago that all the institutions operated by this denomination throughout the world could have been counted on the fingers of both hands. Did you know that there are now two hundred fifty such institutions? If you are not sure about this, secure a copy of the new Year Book, and look over the list giving complete information regarding each. You will be surprised to note the wonderful development in this line.

And this development is not seen in this country alone. You will be surprised to note what is going on in remote fields. You may not know that in central and southern Africa we have thirty-one main and auxiliary mission stations, with over one hundred schools and more than four thousand pupils. The Year Book contains very interesting details regarding this work.

The Year Book will also tell you that we are now publishing 121 periodicals in twenty-eight languages, and it gives a complete description of each journal. It also has a list of the seventy languages in which we are issuing literature.

It will tell you that the total contributions of the entire denomination for all lines of evangelistic work during the last year reported were $21.27 for every Seventh-day Adventist believer in the world,—probably the highest average per capita paid by any body of people for similar purposes.

The Year Book gives the figures summarizing the growth for various years for all the departments of our work. It tells you, for instance, that the per capita of total funds paid by members of this denomination in 1863 was $2.29; in 1885, $7.81; twenty years later, $13.52. There is no mistaking the fact that that is growth.

The Year Book will make all these points clear and plain to you, as well as many others of equal or greater importance. You can not afford to be without a copy. Order now while you are thinking about it. Only 25 cents. Order from your tract society.