Chapter III: Survey of the Station and Its District

The Work to be Done, and the Force to Do it.

We begin with survey of the station and its district
If the station exists to establish the Church in a definite area then
we can survey on a territorial basis
The definition of the area involves a policy
I. When the area is defined we can distinguish work done and work to
be done, in terms of cities, towns, and villages; in terms of
population
The meaning of "Christian constituency"
The reasons for adopting it
Example of table, and of the impression produced by it
Example of value of proportions
Tables of proportions
The difficulty of procuring this information
The value of the labour expended in procuring it
II. The force at work
The permanent and transitory elements
(a) The foreign force
The use of merely quantitative expressions
Such tables essential for deciding questions of reinforcement
(b) The native force
Reasons for putting total Christian constituency in the first place
The Communicants. The paid workers. The unpaid workers
The difficulty in this classification
The interest of these tables lies in the proportions
Summary
But we need to know something of capacity of the native force
(1) Proportion of Communicants
The importance of this proportion in itself
In relation to the work to be done
(2) Proportion of paid workers to Christian constituency and to
Communicants
The difficulty of appreciating the meaning of this proportion
It must be checked by (a) the proportion of unpaid voluntary workers
(b) The standard of wealth
(3) The contribution to missionary work in labour and money
(4) The literacy of the Christian constituency
The importance of widespread knowledge of the Bible
The importance of Christians having a wider knowledge than their
heathen neighbours

CHAPTER IV.

THE EMPHASIS LAID UPON DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORK.

I. Work amongst men and women respectively We first distinguish men, wives, and single women among the Foreign Missionaries The reasons for applying the distinction between men and women to the Native Force II. The different classes in the population chiefly reached by the mission III The different races and religions Emphasis upon one class or race or religion is no proper basis for adverse criticism of the mission IV. The emphasis laid on evangelistic, medical, and educational work respectively The difficulty of distinguishing medical, educational, and evangelistic missionaries The reason why grades need not here be distinguished V. Sunday Schools-- The diverse character of Sunday Schools The table proposed

CHAPTER V.

THE MEDICAL WORK IN THE STATION DISTRICT.

The tendency to treat medical and educational work as distinct from
evangelistic
Medical and educational boards and their surveys
The difficulty of determining the aim of the medical mission
First of medical missions as designed to meet a distinct medical need
Two tables designed to present the medical force in relation to area
and population
The necessity of considering non-missionary medical work in this
connection
The extent of the work done in the year
Then of the medical mission as designed to assist evangelistic work
(i) The extent to which evangelists work with the medicals
Caution as regards the use of this table
(ii) The extent to which medicals assist the evangelists outside the
institutions
(iii) The extent to which the evangelistic influence of the hospital
can be traced