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Population. :  Total       :  Total Non-  :  Proportion
:  Christians. :  Christians. :  of Christians to
:              :              :  Non-Christians.
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32,571,000  :   534,238    :  32,036,762  :     1 to 60
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One Christian to every sixty non-Christians gives
us a totally different impression.  We begin to
feel that if only the Christians awoke to their duty
they could influence the whole population profoundly. 
That is precisely the effect produced upon the Christians
by a missionary survey undertaken with them, and understood
by them; they begin to see the immensity of the work
to be done, they begin to see that it can be done.
There should properly then here be two tables parallel
to the first two.  Thus:—­
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| Number of      | Number of      |               |
| Occupied       | Unoccupied     | Proportion of |Remarks
Area. | Cities, Towns, | Cities, Towns, | Occupied to   |and
| Villages.      | Villages.      | Unoccupied.   |Conclusions.
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Total       | Total       | Total Non-  | Proportion of  | Remarks
Population. | Christian   | Christian   | Christian to   | and
| Population. | Population. | Non-Christian. |Conclusions.
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Observe what light is thrown upon a district by the
mere juxtaposition of those few facts.  I think
those two tables alone should suffice to prove that
a survey which regarded only a very few factors might
be of immense service, if those who used it kept clearly
before them its partial character and did not allow
themselves to treat it as complete.
But, unfortunately, these first facts which we have
desired are, like other facts of importance, procured
only with difficulty and toil.  In order to fill
up the preceding tables the missionary surveyor must
be able to state what is the area and what the population
in the station district.  But some could not supply
that information.  Its acquisition might involve
a journey of many months given up to careful examination
and inquiry.  It is no small demand to make. 
In many cases a reasoned estimate is indeed the only
possible statement; but as we have already argued
careful estimates are invaluable, and where a census
does not exist they give us for the time something
to work upon.
Where the physical survey can be undertaken it is
most illuminating work, illuminating both to the missionaries
and to their native helpers, who often gain an entirely
new view of their work and its possibilities from
such personal examination.  Testimony to the value
of this experience is growing daily in weight and
volume.