Consequently to omit them from the Christian constituency is to do an injustice to them, and to misrepresent the true facts of the case.
(4) In many areas two or more societies are at work and their conception of the qualifications for the name of Christian differ.

In a survey each society is tempted to ignore the members of the other, and to reckon as Christians only those who fulfil the conditions which are applied by the one society.

So certain Protestant societies ignore all Roman Catholics; but that for the reasons already stated is most misleading, for when persecution arises Protestants and Roman Catholics alike suffer for the Name of Christ.

Whatever the members of another society may be, they are certainly not heathen; the heathen deny them.

Consequently they cannot properly be counted with the heathen by any surveyor who wishes to present the facts.
For these reasons we have been compelled to adopt a very wide expression, and the expression used by the China Continuation Committee seemed to be sufficiently elastic to serve our purpose.