What One Denomination Is Doing
By Editor
What One Denomination Is Doing.—Before us lies a little leaflet entitled "Summary of Statistical Reports of the Seventh-Day Adventist Denomination." These reports reach down to the close of 1910. From 1863 to 1910 the membership increased from 3,500 to 104,526; the annual tithe, from $8,000 to $1,338,689; the per capita tithe during the same period increasing from $2.29 to $12.80. Offerings for missions in 1875 amounted to $7,000; in 1910 to $458,943.70; other funds in 1910, $426,134.17, a total of denominational funds for the year of $2,223,767.52, or $21.27 a member. There was one publishing house from 1855 to 1870; in 1910 there were twenty-eight. In 1850 there was one periodical published; now there are 126. In 1855, sales of all publications reached a total of $2,000; in 1910, $1,560,510.58. One copy of each publication would cost in the aggregate $525.00. All these publications as late as 1870 were printed only in the English language; now there are publications in sixty-seven languages. In 1875 there was one sanitarium, with assets valued at $70,189; in 1910 there were seventy-four sanitariums, having aggregate assets of $3,368,941. Primary schools increase from one in 1880 to 594 in 1910, with an enrolment of 13,357; and academies, colleges, and higher training schools from one in 1880 increased to eighty-six in 1910, with an enrolment of 7,169. Many children attend public schools and other outside institutions of learning. In 1878 there were 178 Sabbath-schools; in 1910, 4,157. The contributions increased from $2,000 in 1880 to $138,037.72 in 1910, 97½ per cent of which was contributed to missions. We shall note other interesting items later.