Evening star., 1909-05-14
OF TREASURER
Adventist Collections in Four
Years ST. 100000.
BALANCE ON HAND $4,000
DR.. Evans Gives Details Of Work Ali
Over World.
PRESIDENT DANIELS REVIEW
Mission Extension and Prosperity OF
Publishing Department Given in
His Annual Report.
PRESIDENT DANIELS REVIEW

| Noting great strides forward in the
| financial status of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist movement in each of the past
| four years. Elder I. H. Evans. treasurer
of the general conference. submitted his
quadrennial report at this mornings ses-
sion. His figures showed that in the four
years ending December 81. 1905, 81 ,65o.-
1888 had been collected all over
the world. He stated q cash balance
| is in the treasury at the present time Of
about $4,000.
His report was In part as follows: "The
four years that have passed since the last
session Of the general conference have
been years Of great progress. About
twenty years ago we had but little work
started in Europe. For many years the
mission board was continually ms-king
| large appropriations for the upbuilding OF
our work in that great field. Now not
only has the work in Europe become en-
tirely sef-supporting. but with an annual
appropriation of only $4,000. from the
general treasury the funds collected IN
Europe support the work in Iceland, 81
IBERIA. Palestine, Egypt, Algeria and parts
of Africa.
To-day the Australian field has become
entirely self-supporting.. The western ca
madam union has called for but small
amount for ITS work. The Canadian
union conference should soon be entirely
self,supporting. We have great hopes
for our work in South America"
The report of Elder Evans shows that
the members of the movement in the
United States and Canada during the
past year donated about $3.50 per, capita
| for foreign mission work.
The nomination for membership Of
the nominating committee. which will
have the important Luty of naming the
officers for the coming four years, Is as
| follows: o. A. Olsen. chairman; M. L.
Charles Thompson, W. D. White, H. H.
Burkholder. M. N. Campbell, H. F. Schu-
berth, Daniel Isaac. F. w. Spies, ]. V.
Wilson, III. H. Dexter, s. F. Edinson, w.
j. Fitzgerald, ]. B. Beckner, w. A. West
worth, A. J. Haymer. C. c. Santee, H.
S. Shaw, William Guthrie and j. N. An
derson.
President Daniels Report.
Reviewing the work of the Adventist
movement throughout the countries Of the
world since the last conference held at
the Takoma Park colony in 1905. Presi-
dent A. G. Daniels made his official report
to the delegates at the evening session
last night. He said in part:
Nearly $50 delegates have gathered
| here for this thirty-seventh session of our
general conference. They include thirty:
| nine of the forty members OF the Senerdl
conference committee; all but one of the
twenty-one presidents of the union con-
ferences; eighty-five of the one hundred
and two presidents of the local confer
ences; the superintendents of nearly all OF
our mission fields. and the chairmen and
secretaries of general conference depart
ments. And with all these there are many
ministers and laymen, as well as offcers
and leaders of the different local depart
ments of our work, who have been sent as
delegates Never before in our history
| has there been such large gathering OF
| the men and women upon whom nave
| been placed the responsibilities of leader
ship in this cause.
"This delegation has come from all
parts Of the world. 1t represents North
and South America, from Alaska to Cape
Horn; all of Europe. large part of Asia.
and the most of Africa. Australasia and
the most Of the island grounds of the Pa
cifc are also represented. In this vast
stretch of territory we have twenty-one
union conferences 1O2 local conferences
and sixty-nine separate mission fields
Fifty-three of these mission fields are To-
Gated within the territory of union con-
ferences and are under the care and man.
agement of these conferences. Sixteen OF
our mission fields lie outside of confer
ence territory and are under the super
vision OF the general conference commit
tee The territory represented by this
delegation contains population OF four
teen hundred million people. and to them
we are proclaiming the third angels mes
sage in about sixty different languages