Here again it would not be sufficient to add together the figures returned from the stations, because in a large area like a province or a small country there are often many missionaries not at mission stations but at some large centre engaged in work for the whole province rather than for any particular mission district; as, for instance, translators or journalists; men engaged in hostels or Y.M.C.A.

work; or in large institutions, such as training colleges, medical or educational or industrial; or in some special form of Christian philanthropy, such as work amongst lepers, blind, deaf and dumb, and other infirm or defective persons; or men engaged in assisting the missionaries all over the country as directors, or forwarding agents; and all these must be taken into account in considering the foreign force in the province.

Including all these we should get a table for the foreign force similar to that which we had for the station, and that force we could relate directly to the work to be done.
____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re- | | | | | | | |marks Popu- | Total |Propor-| |Propor-| |Single|Propor-| and lation.|Foreign|tion to| Men.

|tion to| Wives.|Women.|tion to| Con- | Force.| Popu- | | Popu- | | | Popu- | clu- | |lation.| |lation.| | |lation.|sions.
_______|_______|_______|______|_______|_______|______|_______|______ | | | | | | | | _______|_______|_______|______|_______|_______|______|_______|______ We cannot sacrifice the proportions, because the life is in them.
Comparison of conditions in different areas can only be made on proportions.

The mere statement of the figures with the suggestion that anyone can work out the proportions would reveal a singular ignorance of human nature.
For the native force all that we need for the present purpose is a table that will show us the Christian constituency, communicants, and workers in the whole province in proportion to one another.