| Constituency.

| |Conclusions.
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | ___________|_______________|________________|__________|____________ By _Christian Constituency_ we mean the total number of people who call themselves Christian in the area in question.

They may not be baptised, they may be mere inquirers or hearers; but if asked their religion they would call themselves Christians rather than anything else.
The reasons why we adopt this extremely wide expression are: (1) Some societies, whose members are undeniably Christian in morals and thought, do not baptise adults; many societies do not baptise infants; yet these unbaptised people are certainly not heathen; they certainly do not belong to any other religious organisation than the Christian.

Again, some societies baptise very much more freely than others, and count as members large numbers of people whom other societies would consider to be in the position of inquirers or hearers.

Consequently any just comparison between different areas in which different societies are working is impossible unless a very wide expression is employed, and a very wide interpretation given to it.
(2) The Christian cause, both for good and evil, is largely influenced by the existence of these unbaptised.