SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20772, 4 February 1933, Page 20

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

INTERESTING STATISTICS

Interesting facts and statistics concerning the Seventh-day Adventist movement were given by Pastor A. H. Piper, the secretary of the Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at the conference now being held on the Show Grounds, Addington. The Seventh-day Advcnttsts were working in 417 different language areas, with a staff of 4000 workers, otie out of every W of the memuersnip beinji a full time worker 111 the cause, JSSVa.loi' Piper- , WOW »» spent annually in the work, and the amount per capita of all Adventists members throughout tho world, including natives, given to the cause annually, was £7 Us. There were B7 publishing houses, and branches with a total of 40S1 employees, pro ducing literature of a religious healti, and temperance nature in 146 M lang "; ages A remarkable fact w as that >" all the publishing work no work whatever outside the regular cause was done. To buy one copy of each publication would cost no less than £*>'»• In the medical missionary work oi sanitoriums were operated, together with 55 treatment rooms, employing 566 doctors and 4287 nurses Tn addition, the Adventists operated <SI<» training and primary schools including a fullv equipped medical college. They had 4341 teachers ami 93,181 students in these schools, many of whom were training for service m this great world-wide movement. Tt was the speaker's firm conviction Hint it"=t as a warning message rtreced*d the destruction of Sodom, so God to-dav was sending a special messag. to everv nation, kindred, tongue, and peonle before His second cominj as predicted in scripture.. Pastor Viper Hint tbo Wd was using the hnmhlo efforts of the Adventist body to proclaim that message.