made towards the establishment of a Church which could stand alone, if the station with its foreign staff were withdrawn.  No Church which does not advance can stand, and the mere attainment of this arbitrary standard does not necessarily prove capacity to advance or to stand.  The effort to attain it sometimes leads the converts to concentrate their attention upon themselves.  They set self-support before their eyes as an end to be attained for their own sake.  It has consequently sometimes happened that native churches, established on this self-supporting basis, have become self-absorbed, self-seeking.  They have so looked on their own things that they have tended to lose sight of the things of others.  They have become, like many little Christian communities at home, so entangled in the effort to maintain their own dignity, their own services, their own progress in outward prosperity, that they have forgotten the real purpose of their existence, and, instead of becoming centres of light and attraction and active zeal for the spread of the gospel, have degenerated into self-contained units indulging a self-satisfied pride in the glorious position to which they have attained as self-supporting churches.  The history of some churches on the West Coast of Africa and in South India suggests the need for such a warning, and urges us to pursue the inquiry further.

We should inquire, then, what number of inquirers, adherents, hearers, catechumens, etc., are seeking entrance into the Church in connection with the self-supporting churches as compared with the total number of such inquirers, adherents, etc., in the district and compared with the number of communicants in connection with those churches.

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Proportion of Inquirers to Communicants.               |     |
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Inquirers and Adherents.                               |     |
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Proportion of Inquirers to Communicants.               |     |
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Remarks and Conclusions.                                 |     |
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Such a table should, we think, prove illuminating as revealing the influence and zeal of the members of the self-supporting churches.