STATISTICAL ITEMS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 39.

STATISTICAL ITEMS.

By Editor

[From the General Conference Report.]

THE total tithes paid by Seventh-day Adventists of the world in 1905 was $858,014.91, being an increase over the previous year of $166,195.58. Besides the tithe, there were offerings amounting to $169,335.11.

The total appropriation for mission fields in 1905 was $267,032, being an increase of $39,288.69 over the year 1904.

There was contributed in the North American Conferences in the year 1905 for special work, such as orphanages, religious liberty work, colored work in the Southern States, etc., where funds are sent outside the church but not to a foreign field, $95,232.75.

The grand total of all funds raised by the denomination for 1905, for evangelistic work, was $1,180,917.64. This was an increase over the previous year of $324,203.36. This is a per capita contribution of $14.34 for North America, and $11.13 for all other countries.

The membership of the denomination in Russia at the close of the year 1905 was 2,457. The three mission fields of Russia—northern, middle, and southern—are divided with respect to language rather than territorial lines.

The total church-membership is placed at 77,443 for 1905, while the number of Sabbath-keepers, including unorganized companies and isolated persons not formal members of the church, foot up 87,311. The gain over the previous year was slightly over seven per cent.

The total number of regular laborers of all grades, including book agents, in 1905, was 2,797. Of these, there were 647 ordained ministers, 339 licentiates, and 719 licensed missionaries.

The total value of book sales for the year 1905 was $548,067.

The total Sabbath-school donations for the year 1905 amounted to $68,613.71, of which $49,894.97 went as donation to missions.