Earlier text: The Agency InvolvedThe Theater Meetings in New York City
By CHAS. T. EVERSON.
As it has been more than a year since I reported anything concerning the work in New York City, it might interest our people to hear something of the progress of the message here. During the winter we held services in a large theater in the heart of the city, which we hired for thirty consecutive Sunday nights. As such meetings had never been attempted in other cities, the plan was thoroughly studied before being put into operation. Many believed that a few meetings on such a large scale as was contemplated might be safely attempted, but feared that a series of meetings covering a term of seven months could be undertaken only at great risk. Elders Evans, Knox, and Thompson, who were consulted, saw light in the undertaking, as did also Elder Quinn, president of our union, and Elder Jayne, president of our local conference. The splendid way in which these brethren encouraged the enterprise was a source of inspiration to us from the start. We obtained the theater at a much smaller rental than any one thought possible. By making a contract for thirty Sunday nights, we obtained the Fulton15 Theater for one hundred dollars a night. We opened the campaign with an attendance of about six hundred, and the meetings kept growing until we tested the capacity of the theater. At that time, providentially, the management wanted that theater for their own use on Sunday nights, and offered us a much larger theater only three blocks away, at the same rental. There the attendance continued to grow until we filled that theater also, up to the top gallery. It was not an effort that attempted to draw crowds by following only popular lines. Almost every phase of the truth was presented, such as the Sabbath, the state of the dead, the punishment of the wicked, the mark of the beast and the seal of God, the papacy, the seven last plagues, and the second coming of Christ. When we began the presentation of the eighth of Daniel with the twenty-three hundred days and the judgment, for a series of three nights, we wondered if it would attract the crowds as well as other subjects. We found that this subject drew the greatest crowds of the season, not even the war topics appealing to the people so strongly. It became clear to us that the central truths of the message, when rightly presented, are the most attractive and convincing of all. I see no reason for holding back the great truths that have made us a people. On the evening that I spoke on the first angel's message and William Miller, at the close of the lecture about one hundred and fifty persons stood on their feet, asking for prayers. Brother Daniells, who was present, offered an earnest prayer for them. An unusual power characterized the service the night that the subject of the sin against the Holy Spirit was presented. There was a solemn hush, and when an appeal was made, all over the theater people stood up for Christ. One man who had been so desperate in his rebellion against God that he had exclaimed repeatedly in his home, with cursing, “If there is a God, I hope he will strike me dead to show that he exists,” was present that night, and the Spirit of God got such a hold on his heart that he stood up for prayers. Others also who had given up faith in God arose for prayers. Next to the last night, when an appeal was made to the large audience, about two hundred persons arose for prayers, of whom one has since died. That night of turning to God has left a sweet memory for the dear wife who is mourning for her loved one. One man who had scarcely ever gone to church for ten years, came to the theater and became so interested that nothing could keep him away. One night he sat down and wrote a letter to his mother in her far-off island home, telling her that he had attended these meetings, and had made up his mind to follow the truth. Shortly afterward he died, and the message of his death was flashed across the wires. The sad news was received first, and when the letter came, it seemed almost like a message from the dead, telling her of her son's decision to accept the truth. So these meetings are sending cheer and hope to distant homes. We have had several Wall Street men at the meetings, who are intensely interested. One man just landing in New York from Scotland, found his way to the service his first Sunday night in New York. He came to this country to give the American people the benefits of a whole-wheat bread that he has learned to make by a new process. Leading doctors of New York are already interested in it, and consider it of so much importance that they have provided funds for launching the enterprise. A splendid up-to-date factory has been equipped in Brooklyn. The truth has already made such progress in the Scotchman's life that he has begun to keep the Sabbath, and closes the factory on that day. A well-known millionaire and his wife attended the closing lecture at the hall where our Thursday night meetings were held, and were much impressed. In fact, a friend of theirs, who is also attending the meetings, told me that she met the wife the next day, and said she never saw such a change as had come over her from attending that one service. When we start meetings again we feel sure that these friends will avail themselves of the opportunity to learn more about the truth. People of such standing do not come by accident; they have been induced to attend through the influence of friends who have been attending our meetings for weeks. The outlook is excellent for doing a great work in this city. If we can but keep humble, bowing low at our Master's feet, and be but a voice crying for him in this desert of sin, I am sure that he will do a quick work in the earth. This truth is mighty, and the secret of success lies in the wonderful message itself. A group of the wealthiest and most influential churches in New York, seeing the great success attending our efforts at the theater, decided that they would rent a theater near us. They got a good preacher; they advertised their meetings extensively on the billboards of the subway and elevated stations, and in the newspapers; but they never had as many as one hundred and fifty persons at any service. A lady who met one of our workers giving out tickets near the theater where they held their meetings, said it was so hard to get a seat at our meetings that she had attended the other theater, thinking it was an overflow meeting from our campaign. People have been asking if these big efforts are really successful. A large effort can be called a complete success only when it satisfies three requirements: a large attendance is essential, otherwise a smaller effort would serve the purpose; it must be a financial success; and last but not least, it must be a success in the gathering of souls. Our effort here certainly was a great success in regard to the attendance throughout the campaign. Financially, we have figured that it cost less to run in proportion to the results obtained than even our smaller tent meetings. In the matter of souls saved, we are thankful to say that the Lord has also blessed us. Only a small part of the fruits of the meeting are thus far garnered, but already since the first of January of this year, fifty-nine persons have been baptized, making one hundred and eight that the Lord has given us to baptize in the last eleven months. We are planning on following up this winter campaign with a large tent meeting, in which we expect, by the blessing of God, most of the results of the winter campaign will be gathered. Much of the success of the meetings depended upon the wise planning and indefatigable work of our president, Elder Jayne, who not only took a general interest in the campaign, but went into the details of our plans. Brethren W. G. Wirth and J. E. Hanson, with Sisters Calvert, Everson, Lewis, Henessy, Kershaw, and Thompson, worked and prayed through many hard problems that confront workers in such a place as this. I am sure that God will not forget their labors of love. Our church members worked valiantly in distributing cards, visiting the people, holding open-air meetings, and in many other ways. I feel certain that the books of heaven will show a good chapter given to recounting the work of many faithful lay members whose names may not come into the printed reports. Dr. Harrower and Brother Klebahn were exceptionally helpful in leading the singing and greeting the people. Keene Academy
By H. H. HAMILTON
KEENE ACADEMY has just closed its most prosperous year. Under the able management of Prof. F. R. Isaac, who leaves us to become the president of Clinton German Seminary, most encouraging progress has been made. The aims of the founders of the school have been realized, and it is with pleasure that we announce the addition of two more grades, and that Keene Academy will hereafter be known as the Southwestern Junior College. Prof. W. E. Nelson, who has long been associated with the work at Walla Walla, has been called to the presidency of our college. Professor and Mrs. Nelson arrived about a week before the close of school, and they have already endeared themselves to the students and the residents of Keene. The closing exercises of the academy this year were the most profitable and entertaining that have been held in the history of the institution. The graduating class numbered twenty-four, a number of whom will return next year to take up the extra work offered, while others will enter the work as colporteurs, business workers, and church-school teachers. Keene Academy numbers among its graduates a host of young people who are now active workers in the cause. Many of these are in foreign lands. Of the total number of graduates, eighty-seven per cent are engaged in the Lord's work. H. H. HAMILTON. Portland (Oregon) Camp Meeting
By FREDERICK GRIGGS
The annual meeting of the Western Oregon Conference was held in Portland, June 1–11. It was a large meeting, there being more than two hundred tents on the ground. The campers, together with the members of the nine churches in Portland not camping on the ground, furnished a large audience at each meeting. The location of the camp was good, and all the appointments were excellent.16 The main tent seated fully 1,500 people, and it was well filled at the opening meeting. Nearly all who encamped on the ground were present at the opening and stayed till the close of the conference. An excellent choir of more than one hundred voices led the large congregation, so that the singing was unusually good. An excellent spirit prevailed in the camp from the beginning. There was an earnest seeking of God. About sixty were baptized, and many scores of discouraged and backslidden church members reconsecrated themselves to Christ and his service. The young people of the Western Oregon Conference have purchased a tent capable of seating four or five hundred, and it was well filled at nearly all their meetings, both morning and afternoon. Their prayer bands and the personal work which they carried forward were productive of great good. The business of the conference passed off pleasantly and profitably. Elder H. W. Cottrell was again elected president, and there were no changes of consequence in the other offices or the committees. The offerings, including cash, pledges, and gifts of land, jewelry, etc., approximated $10,000. The conference has had a prosperous year financially in all its departments. The religious liberty work received special attention, owing to the fact that a referendum vote is to be taken this fall throughout the State upon a one-day-in-seven-rest measure, and provisions were made for a vigorous campaign in defense of religious rights. The laborers outside of the union and local conferences were Elders E. W. Farnsworth and G. F. Watson and the writer. The meeting was altogether an excellent one, and can but result in great benefit to the cause of truth in that conference. FREDERICK GRIGGS. The following was found among Elder T. M. Steward's papers, after his death. It was evidently written in answer to some advertising sent him by a liquor firm in Kentucky:— “SIR: I don't think you know me. I am seventy-eight years old. I never drank a glass of liquor in my life. There is not money enough in the world to tempt me to begin now. I signed the first temperance pledge I ever heard of, when I was only eight years old, and have kept it ever since. “I have been preaching the gospel for more than fifty years. I expect to join the heavenly family soon, and as temperance is one of the requirements to join them, I make it a sacred duty to live it. And when I remember that intemperance has caused four fifths of all the sorrow and suffering and crime in the world, I shun it as I would a viper. How I should like to see the curse banished from the earth! ‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.’ “I don't understand how any man with a spark of human nature can deal out this health-destroying, soul-cursing, life-killing stuff, when he ought to know that he must give account in the day of judgment for every act of his life. We are commanded by our Creator to love God with all the heart, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This is the law by which we are all to be judged. “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come. . . . and he shall send Jesus.' ‘Be ye reconciled to God.’” The Medical Convention
By I. H. Evans
[Address by Elder I. H. Evans at the opening session of the Convention at Madison, Wis., June 5, 1916.] Our sanitariums at the present time are playing a very important part in our work. They are not simply dealing with the medical profession, or with sick people alone. That would be important if it were all they were doing; but they are doing far more than that. Our medical institutions are asking the denomination to place in their charge for three years, and sometimes even longer, some of the brightest and best of our young people, and to intrust them with their training and instruction. We have today about fifteen hundred people engaged in medical work throughout the world. Such a vast corps of workers,—so many men and women, and such a large number of our young people under the instruction and care of our sanitariums,—places a great responsibility on the medical men and leaders in this work. It is very fitting that we meet together to talk over our plans and policies, to interchange ideas and thoughts, to adopt curricula in our training schools, that we may know what we should teach, and what training we should give these young people, so that when we go back to our fields of labor and take up our responsibilities, we shall all follow the same policies, march to the same step, and all strive to reach the same goal. We have always regarded the medical work as one of the strong factors in carrying this message. I can remember when we had only one institution—in Battle Creek. It was small in size and had a limited influence. We did not then have the breadth of vision as to the scope of the medical work that we have at the present time. There has been a tremendous growth in medical science since we started our medical work. Everything in medical knowledge and science has enlarged and changed. I remember well when a man who believed in dietetic reform subjected himself to all sorts of ridicule. Once our people stood almost alone for health reform. People used to think we were fanatics, extremists, radicals. Today those things which we then taught are received and believed by many educated people throughout the world. I can remember when it was unpopular to eat Graham bread; but today one can hardly find a restaurant in the country that does not put it on the regular menu. The whole civilized world has come to adopt it as a part of their diet. I can remember when the public made fun of us because we believed in the restorative power of water. Today who would be so behind the times as to think of ridiculing the idea? Those physicians who are up to date recognize the help they can find in hydrotherapy. Not only so, but drugs are not regarded as essential remedies in the treatment of many diseases. The world is not simply interested in the reforms we once advocated, but has accepted those reforms so generally that they are no longer thought of as reforms. The theories that used to make us seem odd are now taught in the universities of this country. They are practiced in the best sanitariums and hospitals. We are not leading any more. We are sort of following on in many things we once championed. Yet we had this light long before the world believed in it. God gave it to us that we might lead. I believe there are many things we ought to discuss here, but I want to emphasize especially one great purpose that we have always had in view in our medical work. The medical work was never started in our denomination from a scientific standpoint. We never started out to be leaders in science, to be great surgeons, to be great doctors or great reformers. Our purpose was to lead people back to the simplicity of nature, to bring them back from the artificial style of living that they had fallen into by their intense civilization, and to bring the sick into touch with nature, that God might do for them what he would do through the laws of nature, if men would only live rationally and simply, and give God a chance to cure and heal. The object we had was not simply to cure people, but to place our medical work in a position auxiliary to the evangelical. It was to enable the sick to find not only healing of body, but healing of soul through Jesus Christ. That has ever been the prime object of our sanitarium work. It has never been to develop a class of physicians who should be leaders in pathology or in any line of remedial agencies in helping the sick; but to open institutions where both the poor and the rich who were sick and in trouble might come and find help. These institutions are to be places where those in need may find Christian men as physicians. Christian women as physicians and nurses, and Christian helpers in every line who believe in God, who believe in prayer, who believe in definite answers to sincere petitions, so that the sick, in their affliction and sorrow, may find salvation for their souls. I believe that that is the only reasonable object that we can have in view today. If a sick man wants to find skill, efficiency along the lines of diagnosis, surgery, or anything else, we ought to be up to date, though we can no longer claim to be in the lead; we do not pretend that we are. But if sick men and women want help and rest and peace; if they want a place where God can work for them, where rational remedies are used, where, from the head physician to the helper that does the commonest labor, every worker believes in God and in Christ and in prayer, then we say to them, “Come to our institution. Our doctors are Christians, and you will find a Christian atmosphere, one in which the spirit of the Master rules. If you want God-fearing men who understand what they are doing, who will not take your case simply that they may experiment on you and learn more than they know already, come to our institution. If you want to associate with men who pray and with women who fear God and who believe in Jesus Christ and in the Word of God, then we invite you to come to our place, and we will do everything17 that we know how to do for your healing, and commend you to the care of Him who can do what man cannot do.” Our institutions ought to be of that spiritual type, with such leadership and tutorage, from the head physician down to the most menial laborer, that all who come under their influence will feel that every one connected with them is an earnest Christian, who loves God and man. The workers in our institutions must be men and women who exercise faith and have communion with God, so that when these poor sick ones put themselves in our care and keeping, and surrender their lives as it were into our hands, we can do what we profess to do. This cannot be done from the professional standpoint alone. There is still something more than that needed. When a man is sick or in trouble, he must have somebody to help him find God. There is nothing so valuable to him then as a Christian helper. That helper may be the physician in chief, his assistant, the nurse, the business manager, the bookkeeper—it does not matter so much who the helper is, if only he is a real Christian. Every person in an institution is of value in proportion as his ability is consecrated to God in prayer and faith, and as his influence and ability lead men and women to Jesus Christ. The chief object of these institutions is to bring men and women to Christ. If this is not the purpose of some who are here, let me say to them in all kindness, You have lost your vision. In the early part of this work our institutions had one main object, and that was to bring sick people under the influence of Christianity as manifested in a godly life, that they might see the life of Christ in the lives of the doctors, nurses, and helpers. I want to see this medical work grow and increase both in usefulness and as an auxiliary in helping us to finish this great work. I want to see our young people saved to our work. It is our duty to save them. They must be trained for service. I believe in this, doctors and nurses and helpers, and I know full well that many of those whom we send to our medical institutions to be trained for nurses and helpers, would go out as preachers and laborers in this work were they sent to our colleges. Therefore, when we send them to take up work in our medical institutions, I believe that every doctor, business manager, and helper ought to use all possible tact and skill in keeping them and leading them to greater heights in Christian experience. The institution ought to be a place where faith is developed. Young men and women who come to one of these institutions should not lose their faith while there, but should build it up and gain an experience so that when they come out of the institution, they will be praying men and women with a firm belief in this message. They will then say, “Put us anywhere you like in the work. We know there is a God, and that he answers prayer.” They will have had experiences in the sick chamber, at the operating table, in contact with Christian leaders, and can never forget what these Christian men and women have done for them; for they have seen the Christian life lived, and know that God hears and answers prayer. The institution multiplies its usefulness in the world by sending these spiritual-minded helpers and nurses into the work. Our medical institutions must give more and more attention to the training of our young people; for when we put them in a sanitarium to be trained, we do not want them to come out commercialized. I know of no reason why a nurse who goes through the training given in one of our medical institutions should not remain as loyal as a boy or a girl who goes through one of our training schools. I see no reason why a young person in a sanitarium should not increase his efficiency just as much and grow just as much stronger morally and spiritually during his stay of three years in a sanitarium, as we expect our boys and girls to grow and increase in strength in one of our training schools. But this cannot be unless these institutions are manned by men and women who know what Christian experience is. You are all the time having to study. You are brought in touch with men and women who know not what Christian experience means, who care nothing for religion; what they want is attention and to be waited on. You are all the time face to face with this situation. You cannot get away from it a day; the only time you can get away from it is when you go aside to pray. There is danger that you will be tempted to work beyond your strength, so that you will lose your taste for prayer; your desires for spiritual communion wane because you are tired. I can see how this is. But that is not the kind of work that God wants us to do. I do not believe you can do satisfactory work that way. I hold that you should never for a day lose sight of the object of our institutions. You must keep that in view if you hold the institution in the place God wants it. Do not be like a preacher who is working so hard that he loses his spiritual power, who neglects his own heart in his work for other souls. A man can work so intensely for others that he loses all spiritual power. Sometimes we have to go aside and get away from our work, to realize its importance. Then, having received a new vision of the importance of the work, we can return to apply ourselves to it with renewed zeal. During this convention, I think we ought to talk this matter over earnestly, and never for an instant forget the main object. You have the largest investments of any department of our work. You have the largest number of regularly salaried employees. You are among the departments receiving and disbursing large funds. It does seem to me that we should plan how to run this department in order to secure cooperation and confidence. I believe that there has never been such a spirit of willingness in our medical circles as we have today. I expect in the near future to see this department one of the strongest in our denomination. I want to see it so. I am glad to see the cooperation, the desire to help make this department of our work what it ought to be, that is manifested by leading physicians and business managers and those connected with these institutions. While we who are here have the privilege of this convention, there are many who would like to be here, but have not the privilege. I hope we shall seek the Lord earnestly that his will may be done, and that all may be given a clear vision of the purpose of God. Let us seek the proper ideal, and then all work together to make this department a real success. SEVEN adults recently received baptism at New Haven, Conn. FIVE new members have been added to the colored church in Charleston, S. C. A CHURCH of twelve members has been organized by Elder W. H. Heckman, at Cocoa, Fla. THE baptism of twelve persons is reported from North Yakima, in the British Columbia Conference. A CHURCH of twenty-four members has been organized at Merrill, in the Southern Oregon Conference. A NEW church has been organized by Elder J. J. Nethery at Orofino, Idaho. The membership is twenty-three. A RECENT report tells of eleven accepting the truth at Witt, in the Southern Illinois Conference, and ten at Urbana. ELDER F. C. WEBSTER reports that twelve have begun the observance of the Sabbath in East Toronto, Quebec. Seven new members have just been received into the English church at Montreal, as a result of the efforts of Elder A. V. Olson. From Oshawa, Ontario, comes the report that nine in that place have accepted the truth, and that there are eight new believers in London. Medical Missionary Department
W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - - General Secretary L. A. HANSEN - - - Assistant Secretary H. W. MILLER, M. D. - - - N. Am. Div. Secretary N. Z. TOWN - - - - General Secretary W. W. EASTMAN - - - N. Am. Div. Secretary Pacific Press Prosperity Shared with the Mission Fields
By N. Z. TOWN
WE believe it is not too late to pass on the following inspiring and encouraging paragraphs, written in a private letter, February 13, by Brother C. H. Jones, to the secretary of the General Conference Publishing Department, while he was absent in South America. God is indeed blessing our publishing houses. “The past year has been the most prosperous in the history of the Pacific Press, as to both volume of business and net gain, the volume of business amounting to $623,391.13, showing a gain of $152,264.69 over last year, which was the best in all our history up to that time. This includes the business done by the branch offices as well as the home office. “Since 1908 we have set aside $19,343.57 from the net earnings of the institution for the purpose of establishing and enlarging the publishing work in foreign fields, this being a tithe of our net gain. Through the medium of the Signs of the Times and other publications issued by this house, the sum of $23,400.03 has been secured for foreign mission work. This, together with the amount already noted, makes a total of $42,743.60. “In addition to the above we turned back last year to the various conferences, to be applied on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund, the net gain of the Signs of the Times weekly, amounting to $2,520.03; this year, following the same plan, we have turned back $2,048.83, making a total of $4,568.86, or a grand total of $47,312.46, set aside for mission work during the past seven years. “I do not speak of these things to boast,—no, not for one moment,—but simply to show the possibilities that lie in our publishing houses to help the great, needy fields. And now if prosperity continues to attend our work, we shall soon be free from debt, and then it will be our privilege not only to turn over a tithe of our net gain to help carry forward the work in more needy fields, but a substantial part of the whole, and then we shall realize more fully the force of that statement in “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VII, p. 144, which reads as follows:— “Our publishing houses are God’s appointed centers, and through them is to be accomplished a work the magnitude of which is yet unrealized. There are lines of effort and influence as yet by them almost untouched, in which God is calling for their cooperation.” “At our constituency meeting in 1915 we voted to give $1,000 to each of the colleges in the Pacific Press territory; namely, Pacific Union College, Union College, and Walla Walla College. This money will be forwarded in the course of a few days. “Besides helping both home and foreign missions in a financial way, it has been the privilege of the Pacific Press to send quite a number of workers to foreign fields, and we have more in training. Indeed, the missionary spirit pervades the entire institution, and we never had a more earnest, devoted band of workers.” Colporteurs’ Summary for May, 1916
| Unions |
Agts. |
Books Hrs. |
Value 1916 |
Value 1915 |
No. Cop. |
Value 1916 |
Value 1915 |
|---|
| ATLANTIC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Maine |
7 |
352 |
$564.95 |
$421.95 |
1021 |
$102.10 |
$79.50 |
| N. New England |
7 |
632 |
312.10 |
|
525 |
52.50 |
54.60 |
| Massachusetts |
16 |
907 |
977.70 |
766.45 |
5213 |
521.30 |
676.60 |
| S. New England |
11 |
909 |
894.50 |
|
1200 |
120.00 |
122.30 |
| E. New York |
20 |
1633 |
1493.30 |
2479.90 |
2852 |
285.20 |
53.60 |
| W. New York |
11 |
694 |
555.85 |
253.10 |
305 |
30.50 |
179.00 |
| Greater New York |
12 |
700 |
1032.97 |
788.44 |
5010 |
501.00 |
1043.70 |
| Totals |
84 |
5837 |
5831.37 |
4709.84 |
16126 |
1612.60 |
2209.30 |
| COLUMBIA |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ohio |
36 |
4372 |
4450.04 |
2021.15 |
2333 |
233.30 |
283.90 |
| Chesapeake |
15 |
1834 |
2246.90 |
1029.55 |
2340 |
234.00 |
72.60 |
| Virginia |
17 |
954 |
999.01 |
663.40 |
881 |
88.10 |
359.00 |
| W. Pennsylvania |
16 |
1931 |
1670.98 |
965.45 |
1105 |
110.50 |
168.50 |
| E. Pennsylvania |
12 |
1501 |
1197.10 |
489.10 |
1474 |
147.40 |
138.60 |
| West Virginia |
17 |
1822 |
2357.65 |
959.00 |
955 |
95.50 |
207.50 |
| New Jersey |
4 |
532 |
531.30 |
1025.55 |
1516 |
151.60 |
139.10 |
| Dist. of Columbia |
14 |
578 |
1171.90 |
564.20 |
4174 |
417.40 |
126.90 |
| Totals |
131 |
13524 |
14624.88 |
7715.40 |
14778 |
1477.80 |
1496.10 |
| LAKE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| E. Michigan |
13 |
1073 |
931.75 |
780.15 |
1775 |
177.50 |
159.50 |
| W. Michigan |
14 |
874 |
829.90 |
583.25 |
653 |
65.30 |
72.80 |
| N. Michigan |
16 |
965 |
557.90 |
528.85 |
158 |
15.80 |
41.50 |
| Wisconsin |
32 |
2138 |
2295.00 |
688.80 |
1411 |
141.10 |
176.00 |
| N. Illinois |
8 |
1513 |
1425.81 |
889.40 |
625 |
62.50 |
153.50 |
| S. Illinois |
17 |
2747 |
2925.60 |
2241.60 |
635 |
63.50 |
225.50 |
| Indiana |
18 |
1948 |
2230.40 |
1134.50 |
95 |
9.50 |
114.90 |
| Totals |
118 |
11258 |
11196.36 |
6846.55 |
5352 |
535.20 |
943.70 |
| EASTERN CANADIAN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ontario |
3 |
|
1540.11 |
2188.35 |
2021 |
202.10 |
344.10 |
| Quebec |
|
|
76.80 |
55.50 |
360 |
36.00 |
15.00 |
| Maritime |
2 |
|
602.70 |
145.00 |
200 |
20.00 |
16.00 |
| Newfoundland |
|
|
13.00 |
56.75 |
250 |
25.00 |
|
| Totals |
5 |
|
2232.61 |
2445.60 |
2831 |
283.10 |
375.10 |
| SOUTHERN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Louisiana |
10 |
828 |
1556.20 |
562.85 |
1505 |
150.50 |
110.50 |
| Alabama |
15 |
1455 |
1737.30 |
1454.70 |
805 |
80.50 |
66.00 |
| Kentucky |
10 |
1408 |
1951.04 |
2271.78 |
300 |
30.00 |
73.50 |
| Mississippi |
21 |
1889 |
4343.65 |
3166.35 |
580 |
58.00 |
95.50 |
| Tennessee River |
11 |
1256 |
1694.35 |
446.90 |
695 |
69.50 |
297.50 |
| Totals |
67 |
6836 |
11282.54 |
7902.58 |
3885 |
388.50 |
643.00 |
| SOUTHEASTERN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cumberland |
8 |
784 |
557.75 |
1600.00 |
1545 |
154.50 |
47.50 |
| Georgia |
9 |
841 |
491.40 |
960.70 |
1056 |
105.60 |
162.50 |
| North Carolina |
15 |
1557 |
1392.35 |
2059.98 |
1010 |
101.00 |
95.70 |
| South Carolina |
8 |
783 |
978.79 |
1511.80 |
365 |
36.50 |
91.50 |
| Florida |
8 |
814 |
1367.90 |
1137.55 |
1629 |
162.90 |
91.80 |
| Totals |
48 |
4779 |
4788.19 |
7270.03 |
5605 |
560.50 |
489.00 |
| SOUTHWESTERN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Arkansas |
16 |
1658 |
2788.35 |
1221.65 |
85 |
8.50 |
37.30 |
| Oklahoma |
24 |
1327 |
2449.50 |
2056.65 |
764 |
76.40 |
74.00 |
| N. Texas |
23 |
1995 |
3260.30 |
1101.75 |
520 |
52.00 |
225.20 |
| S. Texas |
19 |
1682 |
2502.00 |
1215.95 |
1380 |
138.00 |
197.50 |
| W. Texas |
10 |
918 |
1050.40 |
415.35 |
190 |
19.00 |
15.00 |
| New Mexico |
6 |
166 |
107.25 |
890.65 |
500 |
50.00 |
3.50 |
| Totals |
98 |
7746 |
12157.80 |
6902.00 |
3439 |
343.90 |
552.50 |
| CENTRAL |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Missouri |
15 |
2316 |
2305.25 |
1398.25 |
1112 |
111.20 |
147.20 |
| Colorado |
5 |
491 |
520.30 |
1368.45 |
425 |
42.50 |
70.00 |
| Nebraska |
8 |
1517 |
2113.35 |
884.70 |
125 |
12.50 |
35.50 |
| Wyoming |
4 |
885 |
1163.75 |
384.50 |
77 |
7.70 |
19.70 |
| Kansas |
22 |
3429 |
3217.95 |
1020.75 |
865 |
86.50 |
230.40 |
| Totals |
54 |
8638 |
9320.60 |
5056.65 |
2604 |
260.40 |
502.80 |
| NORTHERN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Iowa |
9 |
720 |
892.00 |
1033.25 |
4025 |
402.50 |
373.10 |
| Minnesota |
7 |
744 |
594.85 |
1464.70 |
2677 |
267.70 |
815.30 |
| North Dakota |
3 |
94 |
144.10 |
829.45 |
620 |
62.00 |
63.00 |
| South Dakota |
4 |
695 |
847.65 |
406.20 |
325 |
32.50 |
125.50 |
| Totals |
23 |
2253 |
2478.60 |
3733.60 |
7647 |
764.70 |
1376.90 |
| PACIFIC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cen. California |
7 |
441 |
345.40 |
333.05 |
325 |
32.50 |
125.00 |
| California |
3 |
124 |
101.35 |
181.30 |
3515 |
351.50 |
365.00 |
| N. California |
5 |
367 |
781.61 |
1119.73 |
204 |
20.40 |
52.50 |
| N. W. California |
4 |
148 |
170.80 |
|
|
|
|
| S. California |
3 |
315 |
$573.75 |
$254.85 |
1863 |
$186.30 |
$266.00 |
| S. E. California |
2 |
437 |
798.85 |
|
|
|
|
| Inter-Mountain |
5 |
320 |
578.00 |
378.25 |
285 |
28.50 |
22.00 |
| Arizona |
5 |
880 |
2895.55 |
|
260 |
26.00 |
6.00 |
| Totals |
34 |
3032 |
6335.31 |
2267.18 |
6452 |
645.20 |
836.50 |
| NORTH PACIFIC |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| W. Washington |
5 |
365 |
459.80 |
|
1050 |
105.00 |
210.50 |
| Upper Columbia |
4 |
187 |
309.55 |
|
110 |
11.00 |
42.50 |
| W. Oregon |
|
|
|
|
835 |
83.50 |
81.00 |
| S. Oregon |
|
|
|
|
65 |
6.50 |
36.50 |
| S. Idaho |
4 |
265 |
388.50 |
|
412 |
41.20 |
41.00 |
| Montana |
7 |
359 |
972.75 |
|
4400 |
440.00 |
107.00 |
| Totals |
20 |
1176 |
2130.60 |
|
6872 |
687.20 |
518.50 |
| WESTERN CANADIAN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Alberta |
|
|
|
90.50 |
652 |
65.20 |
52.00 |
| Manitoba |
|
|
|
299.70 |
1195 |
119.50 |
57.50 |
| British Columbia |
|
|
|
247.65 |
645 |
64.50 |
79.20 |
| Saskatchewan |
|
|
|
1327.40 |
1302 |
130.20 |
229.50 |
| Totals |
|
|
|
1965.25 |
3794 |
379.40 |
418.20 |
| Foreign and Miscellaneous |
|
|
|
|
5723 |
572.30 |
1075.20 |
| Subscription lists |
|
|
|
|
32800 |
3280.00 |
4374.60 |
| FOREIGN UNION CONFERENCES AND MISSIONS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Australasian |
77 |
6809 |
9452.63 |
9962.96 |
8125 |
1892.20 |
5395.55 |
| British |
22 |
1605 |
813.76 |
3971.79 |
151313 |
3070.39 |
4948.75 |
| Scandinavian |
80 |
8353 |
4449.31 |
4879.91 |
11892 |
749.06 |
270.78 |
| Latin |
11 |
1001 |
514.81 |
1050.17 |
6066 |
187.87 |
219.21 |
| W. German |
|
|
|
2540.40 |
|
|
2494.41 |
| E. German |
|
|
|
2430.68 |
|
|
2566.56 |
| Danube |
|
|
|
638.78 |
|
|
|
| Cen. European |
|
|
|
2904.41 |
|
|
1171.54 |
| W. Russian |
|
|
|
360.69 |
|
|
|
| E. Russian |
|
|
|
1146.55 |
|
|
|
| W. Siberian |
|
|
|
159.36 |
|
|
|
| Russia |
|
|
|
27.10 |
|
|
|
| Korean |
|
|
48.99 |
|
4488 |
112.20 |
|
| Japan |
20 |
|
136.06 |
76.65 |
1720 |
113.91 |
|
| Philippine |
25 |
2250 |
847.07 |
|
|
80.60 |
|
| South African |
8 |
630 |
1119.36 |
555.63 |
2391 |
96.34 |
570.40 |
| India |
6 |
723 |
998.24 |
705.89 |
9515 |
417.06 |
|
| Canary Islands |
1 |
104 |
68.99 |
55.74 |
74 |
1.34 |
|
| Jamaica |
|
|
|
161.60 |
|
|
90.00 |
| Porto Rican |
8 |
386 |
536.22 |
256.11 |
|
|
1.15 |
| Cuban |
10 |
602 |
2032.10 |
2254.80 |
|
|
|
| South American |
10 |
775 |
1130.10 |
3104.63 |
|
36.01 |
472.59 |
| Brazilian |
35 |
3356 |
1746.48 |
2302.16 |
|
|
|
| Venezuela |
|
|
|
1627.00 |
|
|
|
| Guatemala |
1 |
136 |
141.00 |
|
|
|
|
| North Honduras |
|
|
19.92 |
|
|
2.00 |
|
| Hawaiian |
1 |
80 |
168.40 |
|
500 |
45.00 |
|
| Totals, foreign |
315 |
26810 |
24223.44 |
51173.01 |
196084 |
6803.98 |
18200.94 |
| Totals, N. Amer. |
682 |
65079 |
82378.86 |
56814.68 |
117917 |
11790.80 |
15811.40 |
| Grand Totals |
997 |
91889 |
$106602.30 |
$107987.69 |
314001 |
$18594.78 |
$34012.34 |
Comparative Summary of Foreign Periodicals
JANUARY, 1915, 448,128 copies, value $13,166.23; January, 1916, 375,259 copies, value $13,774.74. February, 1915, 403,134 copies, value $11,357.55; February, 1916, 577,282 copies, value $14,480.57. March, 1915, 467,626 copies, value $18,243.92; March, 1916, 350,291 copies, value $35,029.10. April, 1915, 418,884 copies, value $10,001.96; April, 1916, 365,373 copies, value $11,086.68. May, 1915, 595,740 copies, value $18,200.94; May, 1916, 196,084 copies, value $6,803.98.