While Seventh-day Adventist* have hud an organized existence for only a little over sixty years, beginning about 1845 with only a handful of believers and but few ministers, with practically no institutions or organization of any kind, they have, nevertheless, had a remarkable growth. Today they are a united, organized body of over 100,000 believers, supporting 4,346 evangelistic laborers, and contributing annually for evangelistic work over $3,000*000; operating IKS colleges, publishing houses, ami sanitariums, and 594 primary schools, with total denomination ai iiHKufs of over $10,000,000; employing 3,918 institutional helpers; soiling annually over $1,500,000 worth of denominational literature, which is Issued in K7 languages, in the form of 1.878 books, pamphlets, or tracts, and 120 periodicals.