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Title: Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions

Author: Roland Allen

Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #13360]

Language: English

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MISSIONARY SURVEY AS AN AID TO INTELLIGENT CO-OPERATION
IN FOREIGN MISSIONS

BY

ROLAND ALLEN, M.A.
SOMETIME S.P.G. MISSIONARY IN NORTH CHINA
AUTHOR OF "MISSIONARY METHODS, ST. PAUL'S OR OURS," ETC.

AND

THOMAS COCHRANE, M.B., C.M.
LATE PRINCIPAL OF UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE, PEKING, AND HON. SECRETARY
OF THE LAYMEN'S MOVEMENT, LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

1920

PREFACE.

This book, written by Mr. Allen, bears both our names because we studied
the material together, and settled what should be included and what
excluded. We discussed and disputed, and finally found ourselves in
complete agreement. We therefore decided to issue the book in our joint
names, on the understanding that I should be allowed to disclaim the
credit for writing it. But the book would never have been written at all
save for the inspiration and help of Mr. S.J.W. Clark, who, in his
travels in nearly every mission field, has brought an unusually acute
mind, trained by a long business experience, to bear upon mission
problems, and has done more hard thinking on the question of survey than
any man we know.

Let anyone who doubts the need for survey study the present distribution
of missionary forces. He will find little evidence of any plan or
method. In one region of the world there are about four hundred and
fifty missionaries to a population of three millions, while in another
area with more than double the number of people, there are only about
twenty missionaries.

After travelling in the latter region I asked one of the senior workers
wha