中国西部没有传教士

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除了上述的劳工之外，还有三、四个圣经协会的代理人，他们在几个省进行工作。
我们现在从代表这种难以想象的人数的图表转向代表他们居住地的地图。
代表他们所居住的土地。如果这些图表不能在很大程度上为我们的工作提供帮助，那么它们就不能达到我们的目的。
如果这些图不能大大增加人们对地图的兴趣，那么这些图就不能达到它们的目的。我们可以从这幅地图中学到什么？
我们可以从这幅地图中学到什么？我们可以了解到中国本土的广阔面积。研究表明，它比英格兰和威尔士的面积大22倍，而英格兰和威尔士是以同样的比例尺显示的。纵观
在这样一个旅行设施极少的国家，要走遍它的长度和广度，不是一件小事，但
然而，中国内地使团的成员却经常这样做，以至于几年前的旅行
几年前还被认为是了不起的成就的旅行，现在已经是司空见惯的事情了。然而，在审视内陆站时，最好记住其中一些站离海岸线有1500或2000英里的距离。既然沿海省份有如此多的工作没有完成，人们可能会问。为什么要匆匆忙忙地赶往遥远的内陆省份？在众多的理由中，有一条就足够了。如果中国有一天
必须由中国人自己来完成；任何欧洲或美国的传教士机构都无法胜任这项艰巨的任务。
都无法胜任这项艰巨的任务，这项工作必须由本土机构完成；如果是这样，那么最重要的是
如果是这样的话，那么最重要的是，在面积和人口与欧洲王国相当的省份，而且有不同的
如果是这样的话，那么最重要的是，在范围和人口与欧洲王国相当、方言各异的省份，应尽快召集皈依者，并训练他们在本省人民中进行传道工作。
训练他们在自己省份的人民中进行福音工作。将东欧的传教工作推迟到法国传教之前，就像让中国西部没有传教士一样，直到有更多的人加入。
让中国西部没有传教士，直到在沿海省份做了更多工作。这位伟大的
外邦人的伟大使徒走得很远，并且能够说 "从耶路撒冷和周围到卢利古姆，他已经完全传遍了。
他已经完全传扬了基督的福音"。
我们接下来可以了解一下中国的人口情况。每个省都有自己的人口。
如果基督的教会以其主的精神来看待这些人群，它就会因怜悯而感动。
怜悯之心，并做一些比现在更多的事情，告诉他们 "认识他就是永恒的生命"。我们可能会学到一些值得学习的关于中国Inla?id Aiissioti的站。这个代表团
有70个站和外站（其中51个在海口省和胡贝）。地图上只标出了主要的站点。
在地图上只标出了主要的站点。可能有些人看到这些站点的时候，会看到一些红色的小标记，而不是其他。为了在地图上标出这些红星，我们付出了多少代价？
他们不会看到。然而，不是作为已完成的工作，而是作为未来工作的前景
这些星星对那些知道它们意味着什么的人来说具有主要的意义。中国内地使团的朋友们可以从这张地图上了解更多的东西。如果对其他人来说，这只是一张轮廓图，那么对那些从一开始就通过祈祷关注传教会工作的人来说，这只是一张轮廓图。
对那些从一开始就通过祈祷关注传教士的工作，并通过他们的礼物支持传教士的工作的人来说，这将是对神的忠诚的纪念，是祈祷得到回应的证据。
和对进一步努力的鼓励。甚至那些最了解工作进展的人中，也有不少人在看到这张地图时，会欣喜地感叹："上帝创造了什么？

可以看到，地图上有三个省的名字比其他省份的字体更细。这三个省
这三个省是中国内地传教会唯一没有一些成员在其中工作的省份，除了广西省之外，还有一个省。
除广西省外，我们的弟兄们在该省进行了几次传教旅行。我们的教友在该省进行了几次传教。
因此，传教会被允许表明，有可能在和平和舒适的环境中开设站点并继续工作。
几乎在每一个内陆省份都有传教工作。我们敢说，这对传教事业的贡献不小。
有了这张地图，传教士的朋友们就可以证明，中国内地传教会的存在是有充分理由的。
在上帝的帮助下，已经为中国做了一件地球上无法计算的工作。
地的算术无法计算的。
最后，我们请读者看一下地图，并将各省的情况与图表进行比较。
图，并评估人民的精神状况，只要是能由传教士所代表的
所代表的机构。如果现在在沿海省份的传教士比1865年多四倍，并且
如果给每个省分配的人数相当于约克郡的人口，那么深色阴影所代表的人口比例
他们仍然无法达到深色阴影所代表的人口比例。
代表11个内陆省份的图表将使我们的读者能够一目了然地看到新教传教机构在这些省份的全部规模；这些省份有多少女士在妇女中工作，也可以看出。
也可以看出这些省份有多少妇女在从事妇女工作。工人的数量与要做的工作相比显然是不够的。
我们很少或根本没有提到传教士工作总体上的成功。这是很好的。
当考虑到工作的所有情况和条件时，这是很伟大的，并且需要最感激的
但有一个事实可以防止对已经取得的成就作出不适当的估计，即
与中国所有新教传教士有关的皈依者和追随者的总人数不等于
一个广场所代表的人口的四分之一。这是在一个对基督教工作不再是不可接近和封闭的国家。
这是在一个对基督教工作不再是不可接近和封闭的国家，而是处处开放。因此，对整个基督教会的呼吁是响亮而迫切的。
因此，呼吁整个基督教会利用目前的机会。就我们自己的工作而言，我们重申
就我们自己的工作而言，我们重复上一期的声明："如果主赐予我们双倍的工人数量和双倍的手段，在十二个月内，我们就能实现。
如果主赐予我们双倍的工人数量和双倍的资源，在十二个月内，我们可以将他们全部安置在有需要的地区，并在有需要的男女中工作。
灭亡的男女中工作。" "谁会来帮助主？"



Besides the labourers thus represented, there are three or four agents of Bible Societies, who are carrying on their work in several provinces.
We turn now from the diagrams, which represent such inconceivable multitudes, to the map, which
represents the land where they dwell. The diagrams will not answer the purpose for which they have been
given if they do not add considerably to the interest with which the map will be regarded. What may we learn
from this map ? We may learn something as to the extensive area of China Proper. An examination will show that it is twenty-two times larger than England and Wales, which are shown on the same scale. To go through the
length and breadth of such a country, where facilities for travelling are so few, is no small undertaking, and yet
this has been done so often by the members of the China Inland Mission, that journeys which only a few years
ago would have been regarded as remarkable achievements, are now things of common occurrence. It is, well, however, in looking at the inland stations, to bear in mind that some of them are at a distance of 1,500 or 2,000 miles from the coast. With so much undone in the sea-board provinces, it may be asked. Why haste to press into the far inland provinces ? Of many reasons which might be given let one suffice. If China is ever
to be evangelized it must be done by the Chinese themselves ; no European or American missionary agency
will ever be equal to the mighty task, the work must be done by native agency ; if this be so, then it is of the
utmost importance that in provinces equal in extent and population to European kingdoms, and with varying
dialects, converts should be gathered as soon as possible, and trained for evangelistic work among the people of
their own province. As well defer missionary effort in Eastern Europe until France has been evangelized, as
leave Western China without missionaries until more has been done in the sea-board provinces. The great
Apostle of the Gentiles travelled far, and was able to say that " from Jerusalem and round about unto
lUyricum he had fully preached the Gospel of Christ."
We may next learn something as to ike population of China. Each province shows its own population.
If the Church of Christ looked upon these multitudes in the spirit of its Lord, it would be moved with
compassion, and do something more than it is now doing to tell them of Him " whom to know is life eternal." We may learn somethi?ig worth learning about the stations of the China Inla?id Aiissioti. This Mission
has seventy stations and out-stations (fifty-one of which are in the sea-board provinces and Hu-peh). The
principal stations only are marked on the map. It may be that some eyes that look upon these stations will see little red marks and nothing more. What it has cost to make it possible to put one of these red stars on
the map they will not see. Not, however, as work accomplished, but as vantage-ground for future labour
is it that these stars have their chief interest to those who know what they mean. The friends of the China Inland Mission may learn something more from this map. If to others it is merely an outline map, to those who, from the beginning, have followed the work of the Mission by their prayers,
and sustained it by their gifts, it will be a memorial of Divine faithfulness, an evidence of prayers answered,
and an encouragement to further effort. Not a few even of those best informed of the progress of the work will, as they look upon this map, be ready to exclaim with glad surprise, " What hath God wrought !

It may be observed that the names of three provinces on the map are in thinner type than the others. These
are the only provinces in which the China Inland Mission has not some of its members now at work, with the
exception of Kwang-si, and in that province our brethren have taken several missionary journeys. The
Mission has thus been permitted to show that it is possible to open stations, and carry on, in peace and comfort,
mission work in nearly every inland province. This, we venture to say, is no mean service to the cause of
missions ; and with this map before them, the friends of missions have proof that the China Inland Mission
has amply justified its existence, and has, by the help of God, done a work for China which the arithmetic of
earth cannot compute.
In conclusion, we ask our readers to look at the map, and compare province by province with the
diagrams, and estimate the spiritual condition of the people, so far as that can be judged by the missionary
agency,represented. If the missionaries in the sea-board provinces are now four times more than in 1865, and
if a number equal to the population of York be allotted to each, the proportion of the population represented
by the dark shading would be still beyond their reach.
The diagrams which represent the eleven inland provinces will enable our readers to see at a glance the full extent of Protestant missionary agency in them ; how many ladies there are in these provinces to work among
the women may also be seen. The inadequacy of the number of workers to the work to be done is apparent.
We have said little or nothing about the success of missionary effort in general. This has been great,
when all the circumstances and conditions of the work are taken into account, and calls for most grateful
acknowledgment ; but one fact will prevent an undue estimate of what has yet been accomplished—viz., that
the total number of converts and adherents connected with all the Protestant missions in China does not equal
a quarter of the population represented by a single square. This is in a country no longer inaccessible and
closed to Christian work, but open on every hand. The call is, therefore, loud and urgent to the whole
Christian Church to take advantage of the present openings. So far as our own work is concerned, we repeat
the statement made in our last number, that " Were the Lord to grant us double the number of workers, and
double the means, within twelve months we could have them all located and at work in needy districts among
perishing men and women." " Who will come to the help of the Lord ? "