| Missionaries.
-- -------------------------------------+----------------------------- | -- -------------------------------------+----------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Vernacular | Number of | Proportion of Sales Christian Books Produced | Christian Books | to Population.
in the Year.

| Sold in the Year.| -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Bibles or | | Bibles or | | Scripture | Other | Scripture | Other | Portions.

| Books.| Portions.

| Books.
-- -----------------------+-----------+--------+------------+--------- | | | | -- -----------------------+-----------+--------+------------+--------- If the business side of literary work is difficult, the whole position of industrial missions is still more difficult.

In some countries industrial missions seem to be trading ventures with a Christian intention, in others industrial missions are really almost entirely educational establishments.