[Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions by Roland Allen]@TWC D-Link bookMissionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions CHAPTER X 10/39
Here also we must include many workers and some congregations in large towns which the station district survey may have omitted. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total.| Proportion| Proportion |Proportion |Remarks | |of |of Christian |of |and | |Population.| Constituency.
|Communicants.|Conclu- | | | | | sions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian | | | | | constituency| -- -- | -- -- | | | -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Communicants| -- -- | -- -- | -- -- | | -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paid workers| -- -- | -- -- | -- -- | -- -- | -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unpaid | | | | | Workers | -- -- | -- -- | -- -- | -- -- | -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.
It is important to consider carefully the proportions in which the force is engaged in different forms of work since, as we have already explained, these different forms are often, if not generally, treated as distinct and separate methods of propaganda, and men want to know what is the effectiveness of each.
They ask, what are the fruits of medical and educational work, and they expect an answer in terms of additions to the Church.
If the dominant object of missions is the establishment of a native Church this is indeed not unnatural; but, as we have already said, many educational and medical missionaries might resent this demand, for they have other ideas of the nature and purpose of their work.
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