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446 MISCELLANEOUSForeign ForceNeededTlie force of fore^n workers should be assmall as possible consistent with efficiency.Taking circumstances and conditions as theyare in our field today we should say that the minimumnumber of foreign workers consistent with efficiency is aforce averaging twelve missionaries (exclusive of wives) toeach of the seven districts outlined above. For the wholeMission this would give us a total of eighty-four missionaries, exclusive of wives, or one to every 154.762 of thepopulation.Our Mission at present has a foreign force, exclusive ofwives, consisting of twenty-seven men and eleven singlewomen. There are in the Mission twenty-four wives. Ourcall therefore, is for twenty-nine men and seventeen singlewomen, being a total increase of forty-six missionaries.Our hope is that the men will all have wives; in which casewe will have an addition of thirty-two wives.. , Thep.building of missionary residences,Suggestions boarding schools and hospitals must necessarily be done with foreign money but with;that we believe that the use of foreign money for permanentequipment should very largely cease. In the opening ofout-stations and of central station chapels, in most caseschapel rent would have to be provided by the Mission forthe first few years. Only under very special circumstancesshould the mission invest money in the purchase of land forchurches, or in the building of churches.The two questions of voluntary evangelizing work andChristian giving are vital to our whole propaganda; andthe only way in which Christian liberality on the part ofthe Chinese can be promoted is by a more and more sparinguse of foreign money. If we should add foreign missionaries until we had one in every village, and supplyforeign funds until we had built schools and churches inevery hamlet, we should be no nearer but rather fartherfrom the main thing which calls for our presence here, i.e.,the establishment in our field of a Chinese ChristianChurch.The head of a non-Christian family will spend as muchas five or ten dollars a year on heathen rites and ceremonies;