arned to understand what a
vast and important and absorbingly interesting work the education of the
converts outside the schools affords. Consequently we shiver when we
think of the reception which these tables are likely to receive at the
hands of some of our friends in foreign countries, and our ears tingle
in anticipation.

Nevertheless, if we are to be told, and to act on the hearing, that
Christian schools are founded because it is easier to convert the young
than the old, and the twig can be bent while the tree resists till it
breaks, we must inquire how far this saying is justified by experience.
A survey which neglected the factors which throw light upon it would be
a partial and unjust one.

Hence we ask first--

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| Scholars | Baptism | Baptism | Confirmation | Remarks
| | of | of | or Admission | and
| | Scholars | Parents | as Full | Conclusions
| | | | Members |
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Primary | | | | |
Schools | | | | |
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Secondary| | | | |
Schools | | | | |
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and secondly--

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Number of Places Opened to | | Remarks
Christian Teachers by the | Proportion of Total | and
Influence of Scholars. | Places Occupied. | Conclusions.
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These two tables will give us some idea of the direct influence of the
educational mission as an evangelistic force.

Some are anxious to know what support the educational and medical work
call forth from the natives for whom these are set in hand. They want
this information, we suppose, as a help towards an understanding of the
influence exercised by these different forms of work. If the natives
support them generously then they have obviously been impressed by them
favourably. And perhaps the extent of