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Show Advenlists Raise Moneyjor Work Glendale, Cal., Jan. IS. Seventh-day Seventh-day Adventlsts of tho Pacific Union Conference, which Includes tho status stat-us of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, nnd western Colorado, raised 5374,300.00 during 191C for tho extension ex-tension of tlio denominational work, according to statistics In tho possession posses-sion of tlio treasurer, B. M. Emorson uf Glendale, which havo Just becomo available. Tills is an averago of $31.64 per member. If tho amount given for local church work nnd now church buildings' and Improvements vvcro added, tho sum would bo considerably con-siderably larger. Tlio total Includes tho tithe, or tenth of tho income, which tho members mem-bers contribute systematically for tlio support of tho ministry, and which amounted to $232,124.70 last year, in tlio Pacific Coast states named. Tho total nlso Includes offerings of-ferings for tho extension of foreign mission work, which amounted to $101,400.89. This Is an average of 18 4-100 cents a week per niombor for tlio year. In 1915 tho avorngo was 10,82-100 cents a week por member. Besides theso sums, $29,007.92 wns contributed for Adventist educational edu-cational work in tho flvo states. Tho Institutions to bonflt by tlio monoy aro tho Pacific Union College, at St. Helena, Cal., LodI Acadomy at Lodl, Cal., and San Fernanda Academy, at San Fornanda, Cal. About eight thousand dollars additional wns given giv-en to apply on tlio Ellen G. Wlilto Memorial Hospital, now being built In Los Angeles, nnd 'for rural schools In tho Southern Stntos. Tho St. Helont Sanitarium, Glendale, Sanitarium Sani-tarium nnd Paradiso Valley Sanitarium Sanitar-ium contributed $2251.05 to tlio sustenatlon fund for aged and Indigent Indi-gent workers. Tho various tract societies, located nt Los Angoles, Rlversido, Fresno, Oakland, Lodl, Phoenix, Ariz., nnd Grand Junction, Colo., contributed $038. 1C to this fund. |