THE GENERAL CONFERENCE

L. A. HOOPES

The foregoing summary of statistics embraces the entire denomination of Seventh-day Adventists throughout the world. The General Conference embraces all the territory and every organization duly organized by the body for the dissemination of the principles of the third angel’s message. The territory is divided into eight organized districts or Union Conferences. By a glance at the foregoing summary and a map of the world, you can easily locate each Union Conference and what is embraced by each. Aside from these, there is a vast amount of the world not included in any organized conference. This is by far the largest field, as well as the most populous, and is under the supervision of the Foreign Mission Board.GCB January 1, 1900, page 119.1

Distribution of the tithes. All the tithes of churches go direct to their conference or mission field treasurer. The conference treasurer then sends a tithe of all the tithes to the general treasurer under which the conference exists; viz., all the conferences in North America send their tithes to the General Conference Treasurer at Battle Creek, Mich.; all the conferences in the Australasian Union Conference send their tithes to Miss E. M. Graham, Summer Hill, N. S. W., Australia; all the conferences under the European Union Conference send their tithes to W. T. Bartlett, London, England. All mission field treasurers under the auspices of any of these general or union conferences will send funds direct to the treasurer of said general or union conference. All the tithe in Foreign Mission Board territory is subject to the order of said board.GCB January 1, 1900, page 119.2