There are 995 organizations with 418 edifices, valued at $644,675, and 28,891 communicants. The average seating capacity of the edifices is 225, and their average value $1542. The headquarters of the Seventh-Day Adventists are at Battle Creek, Michigan, and about a sixth of their communicants are in that State. Their congregations, however, are found in nearly all the States and Territories. They occupy as places of worship 555 halls, etc., with a seating capacity of 27,865.

The Church of God is a branch of the Seventh-Day Adventists. A division occurred among the latter in the years 1864-66. This division resulted in the organization. of the Church of God. The chief cause of the division was, it is stated, the claim of the Seventh-Day Adventists that Mrs. Ellen G. White was inspired and that her visions should be accepted as inspired. There are differences between the two bodies on the subject of health-reformwhich is made prominent by the parent body—abstinence from swine's flesh, tea, and coffee-which the latter recommends and with relation to prophecy.

The Church of God has three annual conferences, also a general conference representing the whole denomination. The number of members is 647. There are 23 halls, etc., with a seating capacity of 1445.

5. THE LIFE AND ADVENT UNION.

This branch differs from the Evangelical and Advent Christian bodies respecting the doctrine of the resurrection of the wicked dead. Both the latter believe that the wicked dead will rise at the end of the millennial reign and be sentenced to everlasting punishment which, according to the Evangelical Adventists, will be everlasting suffering, and according to the Advent Christians, everlasting destruction. The Life and Advent Union holds that they will not rise at all; that when they die they die never to wake, but are doomed to sleep eternal. This belief had adherents as early as 1844. The branch, however, dates from 1864. It was organized in Wilbraham, Mass.

It has 28 organizations, fourteen of which are in New England. It has about 1000 members. There are 19 halls, etc., with a seating capacity of 1830.

6. THE CHURCHES OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.

The members of this branch are popularly known as Age-to-Come Adventists. They believe that God is pledged, through the mouth of the prophets, to the final restitution of all things, and expect to see the kingdom of God established on earth, with Christ as King of kings, the saints being associated with him in the government of the world. They believe that Israel will be restored to rule in Jerusalem; that the dead will have a literal resurrection, the righteous to receive the blessings of immortality and the wicked to be destroyed; and that eternal life comes only through Christ. They hold that acceptance of the gospel, repentance, immersion in the name of Christ for the remission of sins, are conditions of forgiveness of sins, and that a holy life is essential to salvation.

They have churches in twenty-three States. They are associated in district conferences, and there is also a general conference. There are 61 halls, etc., with a seating