p. 32 | Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 33. (8/15/1912)

A Mine of Valuable Information

By A. G. Daniells

THIS is what may be said of our statistical report for 1911 which appears in this week's REVIEW AND HERALD. These reports are prepared and published each year for the purpose of giving reliable information regarding our cause. This information is wanted by our conference officers, ministers, and many of the laymen. It is also called for by statisticians of the government, mission boards, and publishers of encyclopedias.

The report here given for 1911 is the most complete in its details of any we have ever published. It would seem that it gives an answer to every question that may be asked regarding the organic features of our movement. Look it over, and see if it omits anything of importance. How many union and local conferences have we? Where are they? When were they organized? How many churches, church buildings, members, ordained ministers, licensed preachers, licensed missionaries, and canvassers are there in each conference? What is the amount of tithes and of offerings for home work and foreign missions of each conference? What is the value of book and periodical sales in each conference? What is the membership of our young people's department? and what do their gifts to the cause total? How many missionaries have we in mission fields?

These questions and many more that might be asked regarding our educational, medical, and publishing departments are all answered.

Then there are tables showing the membership, tithes, and offerings, and value of literature sold for each year since the organization of the General Conference in 1862.

Attention is called to this very valuable report as it appears, so that those who may wish to preserve it for future use may do so. It will be of great value to those who may be called on to write for the press, and to those giving talks at camp- and tent-meetings on the development and standing of our work today.

A. G. DANIELLS.

Denominational Schools Opening Early

Most of our denominational schools open about two weeks earlier than usual this year, so as to enable our educators to attend the General Conference session, which will doubtless begin about the middle of May. Students should make a special effort to be on hand at the opening, as delays in starting into school hinder their own and others' work. The Foreign Mission Seminary opens Wednesday morning, September 4. Any who are planning to attend this school and have not sent in their applications should write for blanks at once, as it is expected that all who attend shall first be accepted by the executive committee of the board. For the Annual Announcement or application blanks, address Pres. M. E. Kern, Takoma Park, D. C.

Family Reunited in the Work

A SHORT time ago Mrs. C. H. Hayton, with her two children, passed through Washington, on her way to England to join her husband. Sister Hayton has made her home with her parents in Ohio the past two years, while Brother Hayton was completing his medical course. After obtaining his English degree, Dr. Hayton accepted a call to the Watford sanitarium, where the family is once more happily united in the Lord's work.