Chapter X: Survey of the Work in a Province

The mission station is not an isolated unit
The relationship of station with station is recognised
So the relationship of all missions in a country is recognised
We can then consider the work of a mission station in relation to all
mission work done in the Province or Country
Considered in relation to the larger area, impressions produced by
the earlier tables may have to be revised
The first necessity is to gain a view of the whole work in the
Country
The difficulty presented by capitals and other large cities
I. The items proposed as necessary for such a general view--
(1) The work to be done; a bare quantitative expression in terms of
population, perhaps also in terms of cities, towns, and villages
unoccupied
This expression ought not to suggest that the work to be done is to
be done by the foreigners
(2) The Foreign Force at work in relation to the work to be done is
larger than that presented by returns from all mission stations
The Native Force also is more than the sum of the station district
returns
(3) Different forms of work; one table revealing proportion of
Missionaries, Native Workers, Foreign Funds, and Native
Contributions employed in different forms of work
One table of results
A serious flaw in this table
(4) The extent to which different classes, etc., are reached. One
table including the station returns with the addition of special
missions which work among special classes in the whole Province or
Country
(5) Self-support. One table showing the relation of the native
contribution to the total salaries of all paid native evangelistic
workers
II. To this must be added tables of students in training for
different forms of mission work
First the relative proportion of students in training for different
types of work
Then of each more particularly--
(1) Evangelistic
Confusion of nomenclature prevents more than a rough classification
(2) Educational: divided roughly into four classes
(3) Medical: divided into three classes
These tables are prophetic of line of advance in the near future
The question of perseverance
III. Then the Educational Institutions excluded from the district
survey must be added to the sum of the station returns to show the
relation of the educational work to the population of the larger
area
The importance of the relation of the higher to the lower grade
institutions
The educational work of non-missionary agencies must also be
considered
IV. Medical work needs only the addition of provincial hospitals and
non-missionary medical work
V. Two other subjects claim attention here, literature and industrial
work
The difficulty of dealing with literature. It needs special treatment
Two brief tables suggested
The difficulty of dealing with industrial work still greater
For industrial missions, other than those which are really
educational, we suggest three tables
VI. Union work

CHAPTER XI.

THE RELATION OF THE STATION TO THE WORLD.

A world-wide work can only be conducted on world-wide principles
These world-wide principles must govern the work in every part,
however small
No country, however large, can be an isolated unit from missionary
point of view
How shall we gain a view of this large whole?
We suggest that four tables would suffice for our purpose:--
(1) A table showing the force at work in relation to
population
(2) A table designed to reveal something of the
character and power of the force
(3) A table showing the relative strength expended in evangelistic,
medical, and educational work
(4) A table showing the extent to which the native Christians support
existing work
This is only a tentative suggestion proposed to invite criticism