The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-25
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PASTOR DANIELS i
THE LAST SPEAKER
Tells of Work in Mission Fields
Throughout World-Secretary H. B.
Tucker Also a Speaker-Evangelis
May Assist Local Church.


The camp meeting of the Northern
New England Conference of Seventh Day
Adventists was brought to close on the
Valley fair grounds last night Pas
tor A. G. Daniels of Washington,
d. c., president of the worlds general
conference, delivered the closing address.
As Mr.. Daniels has spent many years in
the mission fields and recently returned
from tour of the world, he was able to
speak with first-hand information of the
work in other lands He related many
experiences and how the Seventh Day
Adventists are entering difficult fields III
Japan, China, Korea, Africa, India, the
Islands of the Sea, South America and
West Indies, and all through Europe.
"The foreign mission field of the Sew
enth Day Adventists' denomination is
now spending almost $3.00O.000 a year
in its foreign mission endeavors," SAID
the speaker. The first missionary of thin
denomination left the shores of America
in 1874. Up to that time there were no
Seventh Day Adventists outside the
United States and Canada, but now there
are 10000 in Germany, 10000 in Eng
land, many thousands of them all over
the Scandinavian countries; France and
Italy have large number OF churches.
There are about 5000 in Russia, and all
the way across Siberia there are churches
established Not only has India large
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conferences and union conferences are
organized there. The same also is true
of China and Japan as well as Korea.
Publishing houses and sanitariums are
established in these lands and altogether
the Seventh Day Adventists are publish
ing tracts. pamphlets, periodicals and
books in l34 languages. They have we'll
established organizations in Do countries.
The pastor told of ordained ministers
in the South Sea Islands who at one
time were cannibals but who are now
eloquent speakers of the Seventh Day
Adventists' doctrines, while established
schools, including academies and colleges,
are training over 10000 students. The
total assets of these institutions amounts
to over S2I 100000. Altogether there
are over $4,000 ministers and evangelis
tic workers These are supported not as
other denominations support their min
listers, but the entire denomination has
adopted the tithing system which means
that all the members pay one tenth of
their income for evangelistic work. This
1.-THE does not include the offerings,
,, which alone amounts to from two to
three million dollars year, but each
member pays the 1.-THE into the church
where he is member and the church
| treasurer in turn sends it to the local
| conference office from which the laborers
draw their salary. Through this sys-
! tenn the minister is assured of his salary
whether he has large or small congre-
| CATION
Many of the churches are small some
having a membership of only 25 to so, al
though there are good many churches
with a membership of several hundred
and one church has a membership of
5000. In New York city there are q
churches taking in eight nationalities
In some of the other large cities there
are from three to 10 churches.
Pastor Daniels, who is soon to max,
an extended trip over the countries OF
Europe, left early this morning for /;
short tour among the mountains of Yer
mont and New Hampshire.
H. B. Tucker, secretary of the North
ern New England Conference, stated in
talk Yesterday morning that the North
ern New England Conference was max
ing rapid strides in all lines and endeav
ors as well as it finances. Ten Thousand
dollars more 1.-THE was paid In the frs