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GENERAL CONFERENCE SUMMARY

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 4, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 23

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GENERAL CONFERENCE SUMMARY

For the year ending Nov. 7, 1879.
Names of Conferences. Ministers. Licentiates. Churches. Members. Funds Pledged.
Maine 3 3 18 326 $1,135 79
Vermont 8 6 13 392 1,636 77
New England 3 6 24 503 2,898 69
New York 11 10 33 655 2,959 25
Pennsylvania 3 ... 12 300 1,331 29
Ohio 8 12 23 674 2,762 44
Michigan 22 15 94 3175 8,280 48
Indiana 4 5 21 422 1,835 74
Wisconsin 12 10 52 1107 3,904 88
Illinois 9 11 34 676 3,084 24
Minnesota 17 20 53 968 3,875 65
Iowa 13 8 55 1202 3,954 11
Nebraska 3 6 23 298 1,340 00
Dakota Conference 1 3 10 200 ...
Missouri 2 5 14 398 894 71
Kansas 5 10 34 700 2,256 00
California 7 4 31 1740 15,899 36
Kentucky 1 1 3 76 272 46
Tennessee 1 3 5 54 133 00
Oregon 3 8 9 225 1,129 49
Texas 1 1 14 250 1500 00
Gen'l Southern Mission ... ... 13 168 1172 00
Nevada Mission ... ... 2 45 1508 00
European Mission 2 ... 16 223 442 70
Danish Mis'n in Europe 2 1 6 141 17 33
Ontario Mission 1 ... 2 70 ...
P. Q. Mission 1 ... 3 73 250 00
Colorado Mission ... ... 2 55 250 00
Virginia Mission 1 3 ... 55 ...
Wyoming ... ... ... 70 ...
Total 1442 151 599 14,141 $51,714 38
As given last year 117 154 549 13,077 $47,637 79
Gain during the year 27 23 50 1,064 $4,076 59
Among the many important resolutions passed by the General Conference at its present session, we hope the second resolution passed at the third meeting, as reported in REVIEW No. 21, will not be overlooked. This was the resolution stating that this Conference regarded it the duty of each State Conference Secretary to furnish to the secretary of the General Conference, quarterly, a statistical and financial report of the churches of his Conference. According to present arrangements, the churches are to report to their State Secretary quarterly. With but little trouble the State Secretary can furnish a copy of these to the General Conference Secretary. Thus the standing of all the Conferences will be known each quarter, and by comparing these, we can be quite certain of tolerably full and accurate information concerning the standing of the cause in all the field, at the close of each year. On this action of the Conference we base a pleasing hope of the needed improvement in the matter of statistical and financial reports from the different Conferences to the General Conference. And we trust it will not be disappointed.