3,792 probationers. Besides these, there are thousands of new believers whose names have been enrolled as seekers but have not yet advanced to the roll of probationers. There are also hundreds of baptized children not included in these figures, but who are faithful in attendance on Sunday school and Church services and will be coming into the Church by vows from year to year. Some of the children that I baptized since coming here are now full members of the Church, having taken Jesus as their Saviour and assumed the obligations of Church membership. We have forty-six primary schools, with 1,176 pupils, nearly all of whom are professed Christians.
We have three hospitals and dispensaries, in which 12,256 treatments were given last year. This means not only that medical aid was given to this number of people, but that they heard the story of salvation and healing for their souls. This does not represent the numbers who thus visited the hospitals and heard the gospel, for nearly every patient is accompanied by one or more friends or relatives, so that thousands of people not included in the above figures heard the gospel from the faithful workers in our hospitals and dispensaries.
Great as these figures are and much as they show, only the smallest part of what has been accomplished can be told by them. The changed lives, the turning from sin to righteousness, the new ideas set up in the life of the village, often resulting in complete transformation of entire communities, are things that cannot be tabulated in figures, but which prove that the
