382 RURAL MICHIGAN 



man of a rural parish or his church people. The 

 rural church should promote boys' and girls' club 

 work and serve the whole community as a social 

 center. It will thus gain a new and stronger hold 

 on the countryside which will serve it well in its 

 religious ministrations. 



Each summer the Michigan Agricultural College 

 holds a conference for the benefit of rural clergymen 

 and their wives, for discussion and instruction cal- 

 culated to enrich their rural work. In 1920, the 

 Michigan Congregational Conference, for example, 

 paid the transportation and local expenses for a 

 group of fifteen of its pastors and their wives, to 

 enable them to attend this conference, and the out- 

 lay was deemed to be well spent. 



