It might mean that the day when the Christian force would be the controlling force in the area was close at hand.

That would depend largely upon the capacity of the Christians, their education, their zeal.

The tables which we now suggest are designed to reveal, so far as tables can reveal, the truth in these matters.
We begin then with the proportion of communicants in the Christian constituency.

If we take the last table and, instead of considering the proportion of the communicants to the non-Christian population, consider the proportion of communicants to the Christian constituency, we gain a very different view.

We gain then an idea of the character of the Christians.