But does that tell us their progress towards self-support unless we know what self-support implies?
In the year the Church ought to have increased in numbers, and the $7000 may represent exactly the same position as the $6000 represented last year.

Expenses may have increased: the $7000 may be actually further removed from self-support than the $6000 last year.

We must have a proportion of which we can trace the variation if we want to see progress.

But is there any expense which we can use to strike the proportion?
Suppose then we suggest the pay of all evangelistic and pastoral workers and provision and upkeep of churches, chapels, and preaching rooms.

That would at least give us something to work by.