For the native force all that we need for the present purpose is a table that will show us the Christian constituency, communicants, and workers in the whole province in proportion to one another.  Here also we must include many workers and some congregations in large towns which the station district survey may have omitted.

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|Total.| Proportion| Proportion    |Proportion   |Remarks
|      |of         |of Christian   |of           |and
|      |Population.| Constituency. |Communicants.|Conclu-
|      |           |               |             | sions.
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Christian   |      |           |               |             |
constituency| ---- |  ----     |               |             |
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Communicants| ---- |  ----     |  ----         |             |
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Paid workers| ---- |  ----     |  ----         |   ----      |
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Unpaid      |      |           |               |             |
Workers    | ---- |  ----     |  ----         |   ----      |
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3.  It is important to consider carefully the proportions in which the force is engaged in different forms of work since, as we have already explained, these different forms are often, if not generally, treated as distinct and separate methods of propaganda, and men want to know what is the effectiveness of each.  They ask, what are the fruits of medical and educational work, and they expect an answer in terms of additions to the Church.  If the dominant object of missions is the establishment of a native Church this is indeed not unnatural; but, as we have already said, many educational and medical missionaries might resent this demand, for they have other ideas of the nature and purpose of their work.  Nevertheless, since this native Church is constantly presented to us as the dominant purpose of all our efforts, it is only right that we should make the inquiry here, as we did in the earlier chapters, and ask how the force in the field is divided.  It seems almost absurd that we should have no idea in what proportion medicals, educationalists, and evangelists should be employed in any field.  In some countries medical work is by far the most effective, if not the only possible form of propaganda; in some fields the evangelists can work effectively almost alone, and medical institutions are not the same necessity, and their establishment does not produce great results in the building of the Church when compared with the work of evangelists and educationalists.  In some places their aid was at first apparently necessary to success, but as time went on that first desperate importance ceased.  We have not so large a medical force that we can afford