The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-12-19
GOOD CONDITION
Statistics Concerning the Seventh
Day AdventiStS
OFFICIAL FIGURE
G!eanings From the Annual Report
of Secretary of The Gen.
eral Conference

Day Adventist church in this city,
has just received report from the
headquarters of the General Confer
ence, the governing body of the de-
nomination, in Washington, d. c., of
the progress that has been made by
the Adyentists in non-Christian and
n-ProteStant countries.
The report was prepared and sent
by ii. Z. Rogers, statistical secretary
OF the General Conference, who tells
in comprehensive way Of how the
Adventists are endeayoring to obey
the commission of the Saviour, go
We into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature"
Notwithstanding the fact that the
denomination did not send out a mis-
sionary to foreign lands until 1874.
the report shows that the denomina-
ton now has total of $50 foreign
missionaries and ga native helpers. d
total force Of 1,560. There were 40
main stations, 145 sub.statiOns: 413
churches, with 11.565 adherents: l3
training-schools, having an enroll
ment of 724: 1872 schools and out
schools, with an enrolment OF 6,17.5O.
Total foreign teachers number l03,
and native teachers, 262. The num-
Der added in 1911 was 2,679, or gain
Of 22.74 per cent. The income from
the mission fields tor 1911, was $780,
234.S1. and the amount added thereto
by the, home base, was $780,, 5S1.73.
The statistical secretary states that
this is the first report issued by the
General Conference dealing specifi-
cally with the work of the denom-
iDation in non-Christian and non
Protestant lands. AS to the progress
made in entering these countries the
report further says:
"Beginning with 1886, when work
was first undertaken in non-Protest-
ant lands, the next decade saw the
opening of work in l. different cOun-
ties, or 25.3S per cent of all the coun-
tries that have been entered; during
the next decade, from 1S96-l905: work
was begun in % countries, or 1929
per cent of all: during the six years
following: to the present time. 81
other counties have been entered: or
3D. 81 per cent of all. Thus worlk'in 50
new counties has been begun during
the past sixteen years, or 74.62 per
cent of all that have been entered
since 1886. Therefore the work in
three fourths of all the countries that
have been entered as mission fields
by this body is of comparatively re-
cent date
The results of the work for the
year 1911 are very gratifying indeed.
The report shows that the net gain
in baptised numbers is 2,679. This is
gain of %. IA per cent for the year.
Another excellent result shown is
the large number of pupils in various
schools. There is a total of 724 who
are taking training for various lines
of work, and 6,73O pupils who are TAX
ing work of more elementary char
acter, and who are thus brought n
touch with workers giving instruction
in Bible doctrines. Many of these
people will, it is believed. later con-
meet with the work in their respective
fields. In Africa there is a total of
112 schools, with over s. 1000 pupils in
attendance from homes which were
formerly heather. Forty-nine teach
ers have this work in charge, with
l56 native teachers trained to assist
in satisfactory manner.
The total of all fluids raised by the
Seventh-day Adventist denomination
in the United States for evangeIistic
purposes in 1911 constituted per cap
tia of 1922 for the membership in
that field. The present report indi-
Gates that the per capita amount of
funds raised in mission territory con-
stituted $7.69 for each of the II $50 adj
herents in such territory. In addi-
tion there was sent to the support of
work in such fields 1857 ,587.73, or a
per capita of s2O.36 for each of the
adherents in those fields, making a