Misstoxany Survey as IsreLucest Ca-oreratios Iv Fam HGN Missioxs. By Rowland Allan, and Thomas Cochrane, w.e.cm Longmans, Green & Ca., 39 Paternos ter Row, London, 1920,' 6/- net.
This book of 183 pages is divided into 11 chapters. It contains the strongest apologetic for missionary surveys and statistics that we have seen, and if one is not convinced of the utility of such facts and figures herein displayed, we think he is incurable. For the writers have been on Mission ground for years, and have arrived at the conclusion that the supreme need of Mission Boards at this particular juncture, is a mapping out of che world in order to the suecesefng furtherance of the Gospel. "We make bold to affirm," says the Preface, "that no Society can be sure that' it is spending the money entrusted to it wisely rimless i has a satisfactory system of survey im operation, a system which takes account not only of its own work but also of the work of others. We go further and say that the chances are the money is not bringing in the maximum return. When—world need is so vast it is time to chalk lenge a reasoned contradiction of this assertion... The missionary enterprise waits for the men who Will take the comprehensive view and become leaders in the greatest and most fundamental task of al¥ time. Until these leaders appear, mission work for those who seek ta understand it as a world enterprise will, as a layman said recently, remain worse than a jig-saw puzzle!"
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