Happily here, we think, we can find an easy and a valuable test.

If we ask what proportion of those whom we train continue in their missionary work after the end of their first term of service, we shall certainly have some enlightenment; for it is true of medicals and educationalists, and of evangelists, though in a much less degree, that if any man continues in missionary work after he has fulfilled the letter of his contract, it will generally be because he has his heart in the work; for missionary work seldom, if ever, offers the emoluments of Government service, or of private practice.

We ask then-- SURVEY OF WORK IN A PROVINCE -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Evangelistic | Medical | Educational -- ------------------------------+-------------+---------+------------ Total Students | | | -- ------------------------------+-------------+---------+------------ Trained at Mission Expense, | | | Wholly or in Part.

| | | -- ------------------------------+-------------+---------+------------ Number who Continue in | | | Mission Work after the end | | | of the Term of their Contract.

| | | -- ------------------------------+-------------+---------+------------ Proportion of Total Students | | | who so Continue.