Nevertheless, to avoid error as far as possible, when we institute comparisons between Christian and non-Christian population, we introduce side by side with the total Christian Constituency the total Communicants (or Full Members), which is a valuable check.
Take then an example.

The figures here given are obviously not the figures of a station area; they are figures for a province; but they serve to illustrate the point.

We cannot fill up the area table; we can only supply figures for the population.
-- -------------------------------------- Population.

: Total : Total Non- : Christians.

: Christians.
-- -------------------------------------- 32,571,000 : 534,238 : 2,036,762 -- -------------------------------------- Now, here of the 534,238 Christians 500,655 are Roman Catholics, the Protestants numbering 33,583.