Here again it is the proportions which are illuminating and enable comparisons of different areas to be made. The bare figures of the number of Christians and communicants and workers by themselves would tell us very little; only when we have them related to a common factor do we get any real light. Let us now sum up our inquiry thus far. +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Work to be Done: Non-Christian Population. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Untouched, Unoccupied Villages. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Foreign Force Compared with Work to be Done. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Native Force Compared with Work to be Done. | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Christian Constituency. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Communicants. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Paid Workers. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ Unpaid Voluntary Workers. | | +-------------------------------------------------------+-----+ If these tables were kept over a series of years, the progress of the force in relation to the work to be done would be most interestingly revealed. But in estimating the Christian force in the district we need to know more than its number; we need to know so much of its character as statistical tables can show. One Christian to every 129 heathen may mean much or little. It might mean that the day when the Christian force would be the controlling force in the area was close at hand. That would depend largely upon the capacity of the Christians, their education, their zeal. The tables which we now suggest are designed to reveal, so far as tables can reveal, the truth in these matters.