Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co Operation In Fore

In few parts of the world is a mission station really an isolated unit. In most of the countries to which we go there are many stations of many different missions, all aiming mo...

Missionary work is presented to us here at home mainly at two points; the one, work at a mission station, the other, the condition and needs of a country or of a continent. In t...

1. We need a survey of the missionary situation in the world which will express the facts in terms of the relationships between the different missionary activities and between t...

In the Introduction we pointed out that the end for which the work surveyed is undertaken ought to govern the survey of the work. Now we are constantly told that the end for whi...

The difficulty of providing tables for the survey of educational work is as great as that of finding tables for medical work, and for the same reasons. There is the same separat...

It is a marked characteristic of our age that every appeal for an expression of energy should be an intellectual appeal. Emotional appeals are of course made, and made with trem...

Thus far of the force in its general aspect. When we turn to closer consideration of the medical and educational work we meet with a difficulty. Medical and educational work, as...

Hitherto we have taken for granted that only one missionary society is at work in the district and that the survey is therefore simple; but in many mission station districts som...

When we know the area and the force at work in it, we must next consider how this force is applied. We need to know in what proportion it works amongst men and women, how far di...

We have now surveyed the evangelistic, medical, and educational work in the station district, viewed separately. It remains to unify the results, that we may get, if possible, a...

We have now dealt with the survey of the station and of the province or small country, but the final end of missionary work is the attainment of a world-wide purpose. The Gospel...

The mission station is not an isolated unit The relationship of station with station is recognised So the relationship of all missions in a country is recognised We can then con...

We begin with survey of the station and its district If the station exists to establish the Church in a definite area then we can survey on a territorial basis The definition of...

The difficulty of determining the aim of educational missions The difficulty presented by different grades and standards The reason for excluding Colleges and Normal Schools at...

1. All survey is properly governed by the purpose for which it is made The purpose decides what is to be included, what excluded A scientific survey is a survey of selected fact...

The end of the station, a Native Church This end a condition into which the Church must be growing Survey must therefore deal with the Native Church The reason for beginning wit...

I. The possibility of united survey by missionaries of two or more Societies The evil of ignoring the work of others Survey is concerned with facts not with ecclesiastical preju...

The modern demand for intelligent co-operation The same demand in relation to Foreign Missions The need for a definition of purpose The failure of our present reports in this re...

The tendency to treat medical and educational work as distinct from evangelistic Medical and educational boards and their surveys The difficulty of determining the aim of the me...

A world-wide work can only be conducted on world-wide principles These world-wide principles must govern the work in every part, however small No country, however large, can be...

I. Work amongst men and women respectively We first distinguish men, wives, and single women among the Foreign Missionaries The reasons for applying the distinction between men...

The importance of the relation between the different parts of the mission The relations already expressed in earlier tables The chief difficulty lies in the relationship between...