We should prefer to inquire the number of hearers or inquirers brought to the Church by the undirected effort of the Church members, or the number of Church members who go out to teach or preach in their neighbourhood, or perhaps best of all, the number of little Christian congregations which as a body are actively engaged in evangelising their neighbours.

But we admit missionary contributions as an additional question -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian |Inquirers |Congregations| Amount | Remarks and Constituency.|brought in |Evangelising | Subscribed | Conclusions |by Native |their | for Missionary | |Christians.|Neighbours.

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| -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- That a Church must be instructed and instruct its children all are agreed: where men differ is with respect to the manner of the teaching.
On the one side are those who would safeguard the faith by committing the teaching of it to a small body of carefully trained men, the clergy, whilst the majority of the Christians, the laity, remain unlearned and accept what is taught by the trained official teachers: on the other side are those who would boldly commit the faith to all, opening to all the door of learning.

The one party would preserve the faith in the hands of a select few, the other would put the Bible into every man's hands.