Concerning self-support, one table should, we think, suffice.

We cannot possibly adopt any estimated necessary expenditure such as we proposed in the table for the station district because in the province that estimate would be almost impossible to make.

Different missions have different ideas, and their estimates have for themselves some reality; but they have no reality for others, and a mere average of the estimates given for all the missions of the province would have still less reality.

It would be an absurd guess, meaning nothing.

If we want to judge progress in self-support we must have some definite key figure by which to judge it.