SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1921, Page 6

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

CAMP ON THE RACECOURSE. Work in connection with the Seventh Day Adventists’ camp on the New Plymouth racecourse is proceeding apace, and by Tuesday next the canvas town will be occupied by about 400 men, women and children/ In all the encampment will consist of about 150 tents, the largest of which is a marquee “0 feet by 60 feet, which will be used as a meeting place. The majority of the members will arrive in New Plymouth on Tuesday night. The Sabbath is observed by the Seventh Day Adventists from undown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. Statistics which have been compiled show’ that in the North Island the present baptised church membership is 892. In 1921 these members contributed £9517 for the work in this field and gave £2017 for foreign mission enterprise. Forty-nine Sabbath schools, with a membership of 1153, donated £1353 for foreign fields, while in the same period 21 young people’s societies (385 members) gave £204. A further amount of £4717 was raised by the members of the denomination for a special appeal to the public for foreign missions. The world membership in 1920 is given as 185,450, whose per capita subscription in that year was £l3. Among the institutions conducted are 33 sanatoria, in which 27,791 patients were treated last year, in addition to 15,000 who were treated in the treatment rooms.