The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-02
ADVENTIST MEET
At KEENE TEXAS

interesting conference VIII meet 1Ff'
on February :, which viii bring Sev
enth-day Adventist ministers and lay
men together from the states of Ar
kansas, Oklahoma. Texas and New
Mexico, and viii continue for ten days
This will be the fifth biennial session
Of the Southwestern Union Conference
Of seyenth-day Adyentists body oi
sabbath-keeDing Christians Of whom
there are about 1000 IN the territory
Of this conference. There are 80
churches IN the conference, divided IN.
20 five local or state conferences
The delegates have been elected up
on the basis Of one for every fifty com
municants. Besides these regular del
egates, there will be number Of del
egates exoficio. These viii be presi-
dents Of the state conferences and the
officials Of the union. Elder g. F. Wat
sou, Of Kenne. Texas. is the president
of the Union Conference, and Elder G..
z. Smith is the secretary-treasurer
IN connection with the meetings Of
The conference, several other associa-
tons and denominational corporations
VIII hold their legal meetings.
The sessions Of the conference viii
be held every day at a. m. and at
2:30 D. m. Every morning at 1900
o'clock and evening at 700 prominent
lecturers from different parts of the
United States win speak on variety
Of subjects One Of these speakers
Will be DR.. A. G. Daniels, Of Washing
ton, ID. c.. president Of the general
conference OF Seyenth.day Adyentists.
Doctor Daniels has Just returned from
an extensive trip through Russia, Aus.
tria, Turkey, and other European
countries Other lecturers who will
be present will be Elder W. T. Knox, OF
Washington, d. c., treasurer OF the
general conference OF Seyenth-day Ad-
ventists; Elder G. b. Thompson, OF
Washington, ID. c., secretary of the
Sabbath school department OF the gen
eral conference of Seyenth-day Ad.
yentists and Elder ~ u. Town, Of
Washington, d. G., assistant secretary
OF the publishing department OF the
general conference Of Seyenth-day Ad-
yentists.
While seyenthday Adyentists have
had an organized existence for only a
little over sixty years, beginning about
ls45 with only handful OF believers
and but few ministers, with practically
no institutions or organization OF any
kind. they have. nevertheless, had a re-
markable growth. Today they are u
united, organized body of over 100000
believers. supporting 4,346 eyangelis.
tic laborers, and contributing annually
for eyangelstic wcril over $4,000 600;
operating 1888 colleges, publishing
houses, and sanitariums, and 594 pri-
mary schools, with total denomination
al assets of over $40, 1000, 900; employing
3,91S institutional helpers; selling an
nually over $i.5O0,OOO worth OF denom-
instional literature, which is issued In
81 languages, In the form of 1875
books. pamphlets or tracts, and 1876
periodicals.
The total value of church buildings.
and primary or church schools,
amounts to sl,S96,79l. The total
amount of all funds raised by the de-
nomination In 1910 was, $2,223.767
The average amount of funds raised
per capita was $2l27 The number of
countries in which Seventh-day Ad.
ventists are operating missionary en-
terprises Is stated by the government
census report on religious bodies to
be forty-tiye with i26 stations. This
report also indicates that they have
2S4 American missionaries and ll0S
native helpers. or total of 1892 lab.
orers in foreign fields. The report says
OF these interesting people, "The high
est averages for distinctively mission
work. both home and foreign. are for
Seventh-day Adventists." (Vol /,
page 1850, This is stated upon com
parison of the work done by Seventh,
day Adventists with the work of all
other Protestant churches in the Unit
ed States II Is shown that the total
membership of all other Protestant de
nominations give yearly a naverage OF
$10S per member OF which Ga cents
is for home work and AZ cents for for
eign work. and that in 1910 Seventh
day Adventists gave for foreign mis-.
sions s65s, and for home missions
$211, thus making a total per capita
for Seyenth-day Adyentists in the
United States of $3.50.
The work of Seyenth-day Adventists
In foreign fields has now reached such |
magnitude that the money required TO
sustain 1t amounts approximately to
$1,000 each day, or s456,500 year
Certain divisions OF the field are also
supplying laborers aside from this, so
fhat fha agorapafa euna NOW avpapdad +