First, we inquire into the relative extent to which the medical workers make use of the assistance of evangelistic workers. This table would _not_ reveal the evangelistic influence of the hospital. On the one hand, there is sometimes a tendency for the medical men and women to do medical work exclusively, and to leave all religious work to the evangelistic workers, and to give way to the temptation to imagine that if evangelistic workers read or preach in the waiting-room and visit the patients, the medicals can be satisfied that they have done their duty as medical missionaries. On the other hand, a medical who does his medical work in the Spirit, who speaks to and prays with his patients, exercises an evangelistic influence wider and deeper than that of many of the evangelistic workers directly so called, and in such a case the fact that the evangelistic workers are apparently lacking in the hospital does not at all show that the medical work is not a strong evangelistic force. But any danger of misguidance which might arise if this table stood alone must be counteracted by the other tables; for the three can be taken together. And when this allowance has been made the table is useful with the others, and lights one side of the question before us. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hospitals | Dispensaries | | (Where these | | are not attached to | | hospitals) -------------------------+--------------+---------------------------- Number of Medicals | | on Staff.[1] | | -------------------------+--------------+---------------------------- Proportion to Patients. | | -------------------------+--------------+---------------------------- Number of Evangelistic | | Workers on Staff.[1] | | -------------------------+--------------+---------------------------- Proportion to Patients. | | -------------------------+--------------+---------------------------- Remarks and Conclusions. | | -------------------------+--------------+---------------------------- [Footnote 1: By "on staff" we mean regularly attached to, or regularly visiting.] When we have seen the extent to which the medicals use the evangelistic workers in their institutions, we need to know the extent to which the medicals assist the evangelistic workers outside the institutions. We put this in the form of a table designed to reveal the extent to which the medicals assist in evangelistic tours, helping the evangelistic workers on tour, either by healing the sick on the spot, or by sending them to the hospitals, or by preaching, or in all these ways.