Next, the proportion of Paid Workers in proportion to the number of the Christian constituency and the communicants is a most illuminating factor. By itself it is a difficult factor to appreciate rightly. Suppose we find, as we do sometimes find, that one out of every ten communicants is a paid worker. That may imply that the proportion of rice Christians is very high, or it may imply a high standard of zeal, very many of the converts being able and willing to devote themselves to Christian work and at the same time too poor to be able to support themselves without pay. This proportion, therefore, should be carefully checked by a table which shows the proportion of unpaid workers and another which shows the standard of wealth. But commonly we are given the number of paid workers, and given neither the number of unpaid voluntary workers, nor the standard of wealth, and therefore the danger of reading amiss the number of paid workers is great. We have already explained the difficulty of obtaining exact figures, or even estimates, of the number of voluntary unpaid workers, but a mere glance at the proportion of paid workers to communicants should be enough to persuade any man who desires to judge our work fairly of the necessity for such a table as we now suggest. --------------------------------------------------------------------- District.| Paid | Proportion | Proportion of | Remarks and | Workers. | of Paid Workers | Paid Workers | Conclusions | | to Christian | to | | | Constituency. | Communicants. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- District.| Unpaid |Proportion |Proportion of | Remarks and | Workers. |of Unpaid Workers|Unpaid Workers | Conclusions | |to Christian |to | | |Constituency. |Communicants. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Proportion of Christian | | | Constituency. According | | | to Local Standard. | --------------------------------------------------------------------- District.| Christian | Well | Poor | In | Remarks and | Constituency. | to do. | | Poverty | Conclusions | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------