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|       |             |  Number of|  Number of |
|       |   Date of   |  Occupied |  Unoccupied|  Work to
District.|  Area.|   Foundation|  Cities,  |  Cities,   |  be Done.
|       |  of Station.|    Towns, |  Towns,    |
|       |             |  Villages.|  Villages. |
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By “occupied” we mean places where there are resident Christians, few or many.

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Total   |    Total      |     Total      |Work to   |  Remarks
Population.|   Christian   |  Non-Christian | be Done. |      and
| Constituency. | Constituency.  |          |Conclusions.
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By Christian Constituency we mean the total number of people who call themselves Christian in the area in question.  They may not be baptised, they may be mere inquirers or hearers; but if asked their religion they would call themselves Christians rather than anything else.

The reasons why we adopt this extremely wide expression are:  (1) Some societies, whose members are undeniably Christian in morals and thought, do not baptise adults; many societies do not baptise infants; yet these unbaptised people are certainly not heathen; they certainly do not belong to any other religious organisation than the Christian.  Again, some societies baptise very much more freely than others, and count as members large numbers of people whom other societies would consider to be in the position of inquirers or hearers.  Consequently any just comparison between different areas in which different societies are working is impossible unless a very wide expression is employed, and a very wide interpretation given to it.

(2) The Christian cause, both for good and evil, is largely influenced by the existence of these unbaptised.  They are called Christian, they are considered to be such by their heathen neighbours, they suffer persecution often with the other Christians when any outbreak occurs.  Their numbers and conduct exercise a wide influence in the society in which they live, for or against the progress of the Christian faith.

(3) The attitude of these people to the Christian missionary is quite different from that of the heathen.  They acknowledge Christ as the one Divine Teacher and Lord.  The missionary cannot count them as belonging to the heathen; he cannot approach them as the teacher of a new religion.  He must approach them as an exponent of the religion which they already profess.  However inadequate and confused their ideas about Christian theology and practice may be, they expect to receive from a Christian teacher instruction in their own religion, and that religion is a religion common to him and to them.  Consequently to omit them from the Christian constituency is to do an injustice to them, and to misrepresent the true facts of the case.