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ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA. 



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ADVENTIST.S. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENT- 

 ISTS . The seventeenth annual session of the 

 General Conference of the Seventh-Day Ad- 

 ventists was held at Battle Creek, Michigan, 

 beginning October 14th. Elder James White 

 presided. The following statistics of the con- 

 dition of the denomination were presented : 



The total amount of the pledges for syste- 

 matic benevolence was $47,637.29. A new 

 Conference in Nebraska, called the Nebraska 

 Conference, and the North Pacific Conference, 

 were recognized and admitted to representa- 

 tion in the General Conference. The bodies 

 of Seventh-Day Adventist believers in Ne- 

 vada and Virginia were taken under the 

 watch-care of the General Conference. In 

 answer to applications from California, Mis- 

 souri, Kansas, Dakota, and Ohio for help in 

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building up and strengthening the churches of 

 the denomination, a committee was appointed 

 to consider what could be done toward sup- 

 plying the wants of those districts, " and those 

 of any other portion of the field in like situa- 

 tion, according to their appeals and requests." 

 The general circulation of the works called 

 " The Spirit of Prophecy " and " The Testi- 

 monies" was recommended; and the Tract 

 Societies were advised to make special efforts 

 to place them in the library of each church, 

 and in the hands of scattered brethren. The 

 General Conference Committee were charged 

 with the consideration of the subject of print- 

 ing sermons on the principal points of the de- 

 nominational faith, to be written by Elder 

 James White, for the use of readers, colpor- 

 teurs, visitors, and others. The opening of a 

 mission in Great Britain was decided upon, 

 and a missionary was appointed to that field. 

 A committee of three was appointed to take 

 the supervision of the entire work in Europe, 

 with the understanding that they should act 

 in harmony with the General Conference and 

 under its direction. 



Meetings of the General Tract and Mis- 

 sionary Society, the Educational Society, the 

 Publishing Association, the General Sabbath- 

 School Association, and the Health- Reform In- 

 stitute were held in connection with the Gen- 

 eral Conference. The receipts of the Tract 

 and Missionary Societies in the several Confer- 

 ences had been in the aggregate $12,313.67, 

 and they returned 142 districts of operation 

 and 5,462 members, with 10,245 subscribers to 

 the periodicals of the society. The Confer- 

 ence agents had distributed 52,719 "annuals," 

 183,261 periodicals, and 6,296,302 pages of 

 tracts. A tract society having been organized 

 in Europe, a report was made from it of which 

 the following is a summary : Number of mem- 

 bers, including those in Germany, Italy, France, 

 Egypt, and Switzerland, 201 ; missionary vis- 

 its, 340; letters written, 198; periodicals dis- 



