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over a movement started throughout the township, and the first 

 thing anyone knew there were petitions up to the county court 

 asking for an election to vote bonds to build rock roads in the 

 township. They held an election and after the vote was counted 

 there was no doubt of it and 90 miles of rock road were built in that 

 township last year. Of course, we are not competent to judge of 

 our own spirituality, but we do believe that the men of that com- 

 munity are just as good today as they were years ago when they 

 had a man drive fifteen miles to preach to them, and during all of 

 that time they had no regular preacher, and we do not think they 

 have lost any desire for service. 



Then, too, we ought to try to give the boys the same things, 

 the joys, that the city boys have. I really think that most of you 

 are farmers living on the farm and have something to do on the 

 farm, and we have been told that the boy who follows the plow, 

 drives up the cattle and milks, and all that sort of business, has 

 exercise enough, but, as a matter of fact, it is not the right kind 

 of exercise, it is not what he loves. What he needs is to gather 

 with his chums and hit the punching bag and jump and romp 

 around as the town boy, and that is what he loves. This is in keep- 

 ing, it seems to me, with the services that our Savior performed 

 when He was here in the world, and that He would like to have you 

 and I perform, that we take hold of the boy and be a big sister and 

 big brother of the boy on the farm. Why should they leave ? They 

 have everything that the town has and lots of things that the 

 town has not. We have mail every day and telephones all over 

 Missouri and good roads and good schools. 



ADDRESS. 



(Prof. A. W. Taylor, the Bible College of Missouri, Columbia.) 



We have heard so many good things this afternoon that there 

 is little left except to elaborate upon some of the points already 

 made. 



It was said that the salvation of the country depended upon the 

 welfare of the rural district. I wonder if there is not even more 

 in that than we think. When the country boy goes to the city he 

 takes with him, into a new environment, the old basic moral traits. 

 If he is a rank individualist he will become one of the modern com- 

 mercial pirates against which there is so much protest today. If 



