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lar | Intermittent. | Bible School | Teaching | ------------------------------------------- -------------- | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------- (ii) For _Educational_ Work. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1st Grade. | 2nd. | 3rd. | Teachers of College. | Normal. | High School. | Illiterates. ------------------------------------------- -------------- | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------- (iii) For _Medical_ Work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Grade. | 2nd. | 3rd. To be Qualified Doctors. | Assistants, including Dispensers, |Nurses. | etc. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If we had those tables for _men and women_ we should see fairly plainly how the work might be expected to develop. But here we ought to remember the difficulty which we set forth earlier in discussing the missionary influence of our various activities, medical and educational, from a Church building point of view. A great many boys are educated and trained at mission expense to be evangelists, medicals, and teachers in mission employ, who serve indeed for a period according to their contract and then disappear into Government service or private practice. It is a serious question whether missionaries can be raised up successfully in this way. "I will give you training if you will promise to serve the mission," is not a very certain way of securing ready, wholehearted, zealous service of Christ. We have found out its uncertainty in many cases at home; we have found it out in still more frequent cases in the mission field. Unless we keep a very careful record of the after-life of those whom we train, and a very honest one, we are apt to ignore the failure, a failure which we cannot properly afford, and consequently we cannot know what we are really doing by our training. We ought to k
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