1909 Year Book of the Denomination
By Editor
There has come to hand the "1909 Year Book of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination," containing the official directories of conferences — union and local — publishing houses, sanitariums, educational institutions, etc., etc. There are now 22 union conferences, 102 local conferences, 67 mission fields, 2,569 churches, with a church-membership of 86,094. There was an increase of 65 churches during 1908 and 5,197 in membership. The increase in assets in advanced educational institutions was $163,912; 83 buildings were added. There are approximately 1,213 different periodicals, books, pamphlets, and tracts, printed in 61 different languages. The value of publications sold in 1908, $1,035,565. The total assets of the 81 educational institutions, 79 sanitariums, and 26 publishing houses amount to $4,944,619, an increase in 1908 of $780,384. The total contributions reported by the entire membership for 1908 were $1,704,718; per member, $18.13. This is not for the full year. It will probably reach $2,000,000. It is a well arranged, excellent helper. The price is only 25 cents.