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------ Evangelistic| -- | -- | -- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Medical | -- | -- | -- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Educational | -- | -- | -- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Other forms | | | | | of work. | -- | -- | -- | -- | _____________________________________________________________________ (ii) _____________________________________________________________________ | Inquirers | | Places Opened | Remarks | Derived | Communicants | Directly Through | and Con- | From | Derived from | Influence of | clusions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Evangelistic| -- | -- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Medical | -- | -- | -- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Educational | -- | -- | -- | _____________________________________________________________________ If we desire to know the influence of our medical and educational work upon the native Church we ought certainly to have a table which, for the schools at least, would show us what proportion of the pupils who passed through the schools became valuable members of the Church. But every one who has had any scholastic experience, and has tried to follow the after-history of his pupils, knows that that is not easy, even in external and material affairs, and when the inquiry is concerned with internal convictions and religious influence that difficulty is insuperable. A few specially endowed and devoted educationalists could indeed tell the after-history of a considerable number of their pupils, and ideally all schools ought to have a record of the history of pupils for at least a few years after leaving the school; but there would always be a percentage of loss; in many cases that percentage would be very high, and we doubt whether many schools have any record at all. Under these circumstances to put into an inquiry such as that which we propose a question concerning the after-life of scholars or patients seems
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