Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-11-05

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Work in the seventh Day Adventist
denomination during the last fiscal
year.
me net increase over the amount
received for the preceding year was
S164, 528-38, the per cent OF increase
beng 500. Of the total amount con
LriDuted, S2,079, 238.07 (72-28 per
centJ was raised in North America;
$3.50, 418.7O (17.28 per cent? in Europ<
81, 272.70 CAB per cent? in Asa and
S27y, 1858 (9.76 Per cent? in all
oeher countries. There was reoeiv-
ed in tithes, S1,771, 989 so, or 61,81
per cent; in offerings, S640, 373.2 or
22.34 per cent; by Sabbath schools
III contributions to foreign missions,
1921, 711.76, or 10.1S per cent; by
church schools tor their maintenance
$138, 272.55, or 4.82 per cent: by
Missi onary Volunteer Societies, $24,-
5000, or SO per cent. The per cap
ia tor the Il, 1853 communicates in
North America was S2S.93; for 3d.
525 communicates outside North A
merica, $15.58y an average OF $23.42.
Since this denomination was or
gained fifty-one years ago, there has
peen contributed for evangeistic
work aloe a total OF S28 $50 400. 90.
OF this amount $19, 720, 499 sc (68.99
per cent? has been tithes; $2,009 POS
90 (7.03 per cent? has been Sabbath
school offerings (of which 80.09 per
cent has been contributed for foreign
missions; $3,731, 154.65 Q3.05 per
cent? has been foreign mission offer
ings; and $3,124,5 $4,000 Q0.93 percent
has been home nilsson offerings. OF
that amount $22,279, 943.29 (7794 per
cent? was contributed in North Amer
lea, and Sc, 305 ,446.6 (22.06 per cents
was raised outside this country.
There was a gain of $3.50 in the
membership for the year, which is
the largest gain ever recorded in
any year since this work was begun.
In North America there were II, 1868
communicates; in Europe, 31,772; in
Asia, 2,713; in other countries, 49,
038. The total baptisms during the
year were 1874. The difference be
tween the number added b. baptism,
and the net gain is 4,614 Deducting
the number of deaths, there is left
d relatively small number of apOsta-
sizes from the faith. 1t is a cause OF
great satisfaction to note the large
number of baptisms during 1913, the
number being the largest ever ac-
counted for in any year.
The number of churches at the
close of 1913 was 1859. This is a
gain of us, or 24.87 per cent. The
number of new church members add
ed in 1913 was ,513. This number i
greater than the entire membership
Of tho denomination eighteen years
after its organization. 1t may be ex
planned that the number Of members
when was transferred during 1915
! from CT plpanies to churches was g.,
80 De7ucting this amount frO,., 49,,
| 513, the number of new church mem
bers added during the year, there is
! left the net gain in communicates
| members of churches, companies
and other Sabbath-keepers) namely
$50.
The report further says that the
denomination is operating in 50 diffeI
a"t countries through force of lab
oreIs comprised as follows: 958 or
dained ministers, 572 licensed minis
ters, 1903 licensed missionaries, O.
| eco colporteuTs, 1,511 teachers in
mission, primary, and advanced
schools, 734 laborers in denomina-
tional publishing houses, 1y727 physiC
ians, nurses and other employees in
sanitariums and treatment rooms yanC
252 other persons not included il
these classes, thus making a total
force of 9,172 Iaborers engaged in
all 1les of work, or an average Oi
one laborer for every thirteen MEM
bers.
The report also tells in an ex-
tensive manner of the educatiOna,
system which the denomination con
ducts in a uniform way throughout
the world and also of the 81 publish
ing houses, which turned out nearly
two million dollars worth of Chris
tian literature during the past year
Of the Educational work the report
says:
The following general classes o.
schools are conducted by the denomi
nation: Primary schools (grades 1--5,
of which there are $40, taught by 50.
teachers, and having an enrolImen
of 10 ,206; and advanced schools =
(grades 8--16), of which there arr
20, taught by 557 teachers, and hay
ing an enrolment of 1868. In addi-
there are certain mission schools
ton to these two general classes
conducted in non-Christian and non
Protestant countries Ca separate
report of which is prepared), The
present number comprising 206 train
ing schools, head schools and out
schools, with a teaching force of 362
and an enrolment of $3.50 Thus thu
total number of schools conducted b.
the denomination is 1856, taught BY
1911 teachers, and having tota
enrolment of 27,379. The total in
vestment in these schools is 50, 1888,
328.14. A total of 82S students were
trained in all these schools suffici
emily to enter some line of denomina
tiopal work at the cloes of the Iast
school year
Of the publishing houses the re-
port says