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PROVINCIAL SURVEYS 443Chinese Christians and to direct them, so far as may benecessary, in the evangelizing of their own people. Wecannot place too great emphasis on the fact that the greaterpart of the work of evangelizing ultimately must be done bythe Chinese. Our aim is to establish a Christian Churchthat will quickly become independent of foreign funds andforeign control; and in its independence become the chiefagency for winning the Chinese to Christ. The success ofour work will be determined by the strength of the ChineseChurch within our bounds.In the interest of both efficiency andNeed ofeconomy we are convinced that we shouldplan and standardize our work along certaingeneral lines presently to be specified. The planning of ourwork is necessary in order that all of our efforts may berelated, and a proper balance maintained between the different parts of our field and the different work of individualmissionaries. If the work of one station or of one individualbe inefficiently done, the work of the whole mission is therebyhindered. There is need for a closer co-ordination of all themission work in our field. The experience of the past wouldseem to indicate that a "ifmissionary is not an individualistto start with, he is in danger of quickly becomingWe one."need to link up all the departments of our work; tomultiply points of contact between the different forms of\*ork; and to secure for the whole work of the whole fieldthe intelligent interest and sympathetic support of eachindividual worker. Our work is not the unrelated work ofseven or eight different fields, but the united work of onefield ;and the work of each Station and of each individualhas an important bearing on the whole. The north KiangsuMission has no place for free lances or free lance work.What we need is standardization, co-operation, and unity ofaim and method. Definiteness of aim, continuity of purposeand general policy should be our mission s principle ofgrowth.Plan Ado tedwhich we are responsible :^*ie f^owin^ ^ s an outline of the planadopted by the Mission for the territory for