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So is it in educational questions. Nowhere 

 may the citizen come into closer contact with 

 the educational problems of the day than 

 through service on the rural school board. If 

 he brings to this position trained intellig, ce, 

 some acquaintance with educational questions, 

 and a desire to keep in touch with the advance- 

 ment of the times, he can do for his community 

 a service that can hardly be imagined. 



Take another field — that of organization for 

 farmers, constituting a problem of great signifi- 

 cance. As yet this class of people is relatively 

 unorganized, but the movement is growing and 

 the need of well-trained leadership is vital. I 

 cannot speak too strongly of the chance here 

 offered for active, intelligent, masterful men and 

 women in being of use as leaders and officials in 

 the Grange and other farmers' organizations. 



So with the church question. One of the 

 reasons for the slow progress of the country 

 church is the conservatism in the pews as well 

 as in the pulpit. The ardent member of the 

 Young Men's Christian Association in college 

 may feel that, in the country, there will be no 

 outlet for his ambition to be of religious use to 

 his fellow-men. This is a mistake. The work 

 of the Young Men's Christian Association itself 



