(5) The extent to which the Church has attained to self-support.
1.

If the mission stations and their allotted districts covered the whole country, we should need to do no more than add together the returns obtained from the station statistics which we have already drawn up.

But in most countries there are large unoccupied areas of the size and population of which we are more or less ignorant.

What we have is, either a census return for the whole province, or an estimate of its area and population.

In dealing with the whole province then we must treat the station returns of towns and villages occupied and of the numbers of the Christian constituency as work done; and then we must find out the relation of these to the whole area and population.