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table showing the
work of medicals in connection with schools The importance of
educational work in hospitals The table showing the work of
educationalists in hospitals Summary of co-operation between
evangelists, medicals, and educationalists

CHAPTER VIII.
THE NATIVE CHURCH.
The end of the station, a Native Church This end a condition into which
the Church must be growing Survey must therefore deal with the
Native Church The reason for beginning with self-support The meaning
of self-supporting Churches In rare cases it means independence of
external support In most cases it means attainment of an arbitrary
standard In most cases it does not represent the power of the people to
supply their own needs In most cases it is not sure evidence of growing
liberality Nevertheless we must begin by considering the
self-supporting Churches We ask for proportion of self-supporting
Churches This will not reveal the power of the Churches to stand alone
We inquire then the proportion of inquirers in self-supporting Churches
We inquire then the proportion of unpaid workers in self-supporting
Churches Where self-supporting Churches are not recognised we
inquire--
(i) Power of Christians to conduct their own services (ii) Power to order
Church government (iii) Power to provide expenses of Church
organisation

CHAPTER IX.
SURVEY OF DISTRICTS WHERE TWO OR MORE SOCIETIES
ARE AT WORK. SURVEY OF MISSIONS WITH NO DEFINED
DISTRICTS.
I. The possibility of united survey by missionaries of two or more
Societies The evil of ignoring the work of others Survey is concerned
with facts not with ecclesiastical prejudices The difficulty of obtaining
the facts The use of estimates II. The mission which has no defined
district--A general expression of the purpose of such a mission In its

widest terms survey of the work of such a mission would involve
survey of the whole state of society In its narrower terms it is survey of
a mission establishing a Church In this case most of the preceding
tables could be used, omitting proportions to area and population Then
we could see force at work Then we could see forms of work Then we
could place the mission in a survey of the Country

CHAPTER X.
SURVEY OF THE WORK IN A PROVINCE.
The mission station is not an isolated unit The relationship of station
with station is recognised So the relationship of all missions in a
country is recognised We can then consider the work of a mission
station in relation to all mission work done in the Province or Country
Considered in relation to the larger area, impressions produced by the
earlier tables may have to be revised The first necessity is to gain a
view of the whole work in the Country The difficulty presented by
capitals and other large cities I. The items proposed as necessary for
such a general view-- (1) The work to be done; a bare quantitative
expression in terms of population, perhaps also in terms of cities, towns,
and villages unoccupied This expression ought not to suggest that the
work to be done is to be done by the foreigners (2) The Foreign Force
at work in relation to the work to be done is larger than that presented
by returns from all mission stations The Native Force also is more than
the sum of the station district returns (3) Different forms of work; one
table revealing proportion of Missionaries, Native Workers, Foreign
Funds, and Native Contributions employed in different forms of work
One table of results A serious flaw in this table (4) The extent to which
different classes, etc., are reached. One table including the station
returns with the addition of special missions which work among special
classes in the whole Province or Country (5) Self-support. One table
showing the relation of the native contribution to the total salaries of all
paid native evangelistic workers II. To this must be added tables of
students in training for different forms of mission work First the
relative proportion of students in training for different types of work

Then of each more particularly-- (1) Evangelistic Confusion of
nomenclature prevents more than a rough classification (2) Educational:
divided roughly into four classes (3) Medical: divided into three classes
These tables are prophetic of line of advance in the near future The
question of perseverance III. Then the Educational Institutions
excluded from the district survey must be added to the sum of the
station returns to show the relation of the educational work to the
population of the larger area The importance of the relation of the
higher to the lower grade institutions The educational work of
non-missionary agencies must also be considered IV. Medical work
needs only the addition of provincial hospitals and non-missionary
medical work V. Two other subjects claim attention here, literature and
industrial work The difficulty of dealing