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establish the Church in a definite area then we can survey on a
territorial basis The definition of the area involves a policy I. When the
area is defined we can distinguish work done and work to be done, in
terms of cities, towns, and villages; in terms of population The meaning
of "Christian constituency" The reasons for adopting it Example of
table, and of the impression produced by it Example of value of
proportions Tables of proportions The difficulty of procuring this
information The value of the labour expended in procuring it II. The
force at work The permanent and transitory elements (a) The foreign
force The use of merely quantitative expressions Such tables essential
for deciding questions of reinforcement (b) The native force Reasons
for putting total Christian constituency in the first place The
Communicants. The paid workers. The unpaid workers The difficulty
in this classification The interest of these tables lies in the proportions
Summary But we need to know something of capacity of the native
force (1) Proportion of Communicants The importance of this
proportion in itself In relation to the work to be done (2) Proportion of
paid workers to Christian constituency and to Communicants The
difficulty of appreciating the meaning of this proportion It must be
checked by (a) the proportion of unpaid voluntary workers (b) The
standard of wealth (3) The contribution to missionary work in labour
and money (4) The literacy of the Christian constituency The
importance of widespread knowledge of the Bible The importance of
Christians having a wider knowledge than their heathen neighbours

CHAPTER IV.

THE EMPHASIS LAID UPON DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORK.
I. Work amongst men and women respectively We first distinguish
men, wives, and single women among the Foreign Missionaries The
reasons for applying the distinction between men and women to the
Native Force II. The different classes in the population chiefly reached
by the mission III The different races and religions Emphasis upon one
class or race or religion is no proper basis for adverse criticism of the
mission IV. The emphasis laid on evangelistic, medical, and
educational work respectively The difficulty of distinguishing medical,
educational, and evangelistic missionaries The reason why grades need
not here be distinguished V. Sunday Schools-- The diverse character of
Sunday Schools The table proposed

CHAPTER V.
THE MEDICAL WORK IN THE STATION DISTRICT.
The tendency to treat medical and educational work as distinct from
evangelistic Medical and educational boards and their surveys The
difficulty of determining the aim of the medical mission First of
medical missions as designed to meet a distinct medical need Two
tables designed to present the medical force in relation to area and
population The necessity of considering non-missionary medical work
in this connection The extent of the work done in the year Then of the
medical mission as designed to assist evangelistic work (i) The extent
to which evangelists work with the medicals Caution as regards the use
of this table (ii) The extent to which medicals assist the evangelists
outside the institutions (iii) The extent to which the evangelistic
influence of the hospital can be traced

CHAPTER VI.
EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE STATION DISTRICT.

The difficulty of determining the aim of educational missions The
difficulty presented by different grades and standards The reason for
excluding Colleges and Normal Schools at this stage First of the
educational mission as designed to meet a distinct educational need
Two tables designed to present the educational work in relation to area
and population The necessity of considering non-missionary
educational work The existence of non-missionary schools may either
increase the need for missionary schools or decrease it The extent to
which education is provided for the better educated and the more
illiterate The extent to which education is provided for boys and girls,
for Christian and non-Christian scholars The extent to which mission
schools receive Government grants throws light on their character and
purpose The extent to which education is provided for illiterate adults
The importance of this The importance of the distinction between
Christians and non-Christians in this table Then of the educational
mission as designed to assist evangelistic work (i) The extent to which
evangelists work with the educationalists in schools Caution needed in
the use of this table (ii) The extent to which educationalists work with
evangelists outside schools The importance of the work done by
educationalists outside the schools (iii) The immediate evangelistic
results of education given The difficulty The table proposed The
support given by the Natives to medical and educational work

CHAPTER VII.
CO-OPERATION.
The importance of the relation between the different parts of the
mission The relations already expressed in earlier tables The chief
difficulty lies in the relationship between medicals and educationalists
The importance of medical work in schools The