Under these circumstances we cannot use accepted ecclesiastical terms; but by capacity for conducting their own religious services we must certainly at least mean capacity to perform all necessary religious rites, and that, for Anglicans at any rate, must include Baptism and Holy Communion.

Suppose then that we accepted the "organised churches" as a basis and inquired what proportion of these organised churches could, and did, perform _all_ necessary religious rites, we should indeed omit the floating and isolated members of the unorganised Christian community which in some districts might be very large, but we should nevertheless, we hope, get a definite and common basis which would really give us some light on this difficult but important problem, and if we added a question as to the proportion of the Christian constituency connected with these organised churches we should have some check upon a serious misunderstanding.
-- -------------------------------------------------------|-----| Number of Organised Churches.

| | -- -------------------------------------------------------|-----| Proportion of Christian Constituency | | Connected with these.

| | -- -------------------------------------------------------|-----| Number of Churches Capable of Performing _all_ | | Necessary Religious Rites without External Assistance.

| | -- -------------------------------------------------------|-----| Proportion of these to Number of Organised Churches.