We should conduct all our work, and plan all our work, at home and abroad, with our eyes fixed on the final goal, which is for us, so long as we are on this earth, coterminous only with the limits of the habitable globe.

We cannot be content to approach even the largest areas as though our action was limited by them.

All our policy in every part should be part of a policy designed for the whole.

If it is not designed to accomplish the whole it is not adequate for any part.
How then could we gain a vision of the whole, a whole composed of such vast and diverse parts?
Obviously we must have for every country in which any missionary work is carried on some common returns, either those which we venture to suggest or others which some abler minds might suggest; but that they must be common to all, and fundamental in character, is obvious; and they must be reduced to proportions on a common basis, or comparison and combination will be impossible; and they must be as few as possible in order to avoid confusion.
We suggest, then, that if we had the four tables which follow we should possess a reasonable basis, sufficient for our present needs, especially since we suppose they would be supported by the tables for the different provinces, countries, and stations which we have already suggested, and they ought to be supplemented by surveys made by each society of its own work and by departmental surveys of medical, educational, industrial, and literary work made for the special direction of each of these branches.

But for a first general view of the whole we propose:-- (1) A table showing the force at work in the area in relation to the population:-- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Proportion to Population.
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